Mind Facsimile

LifeNaut.com's mind over mater

Believable blur

PIXELS by Patrick Jean from ONE MORE PRODUCTION on Vimeo.

3D computer graphics can be thought of as digital or synthetic photography. CGI simulated optical effects and virtual cinematography enhance one fiction within another.

Loaded surface

Keiichi Matsuna, Augmented (hyper) Reality: Domestic Robocop

A graffiti generation and democratic tagging

Are you Human, Aram Bartholl

Virtually concrete

Marc Owens Avatar Machine

"I'd rather be a fake somebody than a real nobody"

-Tom Ripley

There is a five second segment (between 2:00 and 2:05) of footage where the avatar character enters a stairwell and descends a concrete corridor. For a split second the appearance of the virtual and physical world become inseparable.

Edges of a hardcore

Pixxxel, Jean-Yves Leoigne for AMUSEMENT

The collaging of pixel resolutions within a ppi (pixels per inch) determined virtual image space forces one to get physical with the virtual.

Also see Is it a game, or is it real

Piety of the Polychromer and the forebidden planet of the prostitute

The Sacred Made Real, The National Gallery London

Megan Fox as model Leile from the Jonah Hex Series

The realistic quality of the polychrome sculpture and their visual presence in the 17th Century raised concerns within certain religious establishments. These concerns were observed through the sculptures relationship to the real and the possibility that the faithful might worship the sculpture itself, not what it represented.

"I see you"

Cayetano Ferrer, City of Chicago 2004-2006

Dutch: What's got Billy so spooked?

Sergeant Mac Eliot: Can't say, Major. Been actin' squirrelly all morning. That damned nose of his.... its weird.

Dutch: What is it? Billy? What the hell is wrong with you?

Billy: There's something in those trees.

Dutch: Do you see anything?

Billy: Up there ahead.

Dutch: Nothing. What do you think?

Billy: I guess it's nothing, Major

Spectator driven

Gael Odilon Paccard, Billboard

"I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist" - M. Duchamp

There is too much art to look at and generally there is not enough time to look at the stuff you want to look at. From this highway perspective art has to grab ones attention if only momentarily. The appearance of art in such times should therefore reflect the situation of its audiance.

The Gallery is a highway of images and art that knows its audience starts with presentation and work backwards.

Reality bites in the dentist theatre

Mark Lyon from his Landscape for the people series

Hazy Meadows: For a few moments as I awoke everything felt ok, then I remembered.