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May 17th, 2008
12:51 pm - 4 dimensional art
I was asked today by my dad to explain my concept of 4 dimensional art. What follows is a decent attempt at outlining the basics of what it is, and how I am using it. I am sure it will bring many different associations for people out there. Please, let me know your thoughts on the Project, what you see in it, how you think it could be used, etc. I am very curious about feedback on this matter....
"The concept of 4 dimensional art is hard to understand without a few basic premises, which can be verified of course by the best method, that of science (trial and error and direct observation.) The truth of these premises, however, is not very easy to argue since one can not "prove them" to someone else unless someone does the experiments to get the experiences. The premises are based upon the observation that there is no actual distinction between mind and matter; the dichotomy is a convenient one for the primate to deal with the world, but there is no way to unravel the subject from the object, the viewed from the viewer. It is also based upon principles of ancient Esoteric Schools, which taught that the human mind can impress forms onto reality to cause change; historically, this has been called Magick. The definition of magick given by the occultist and hermeticist Aleister Crowley is as follows: Magick is the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. The basic mechanisms by which magick is accomplished is through symbol; thus Art itself is inherently magcial- it embodies an intension, it houses a "spirit" which then moves through the constructed reality matrix causing change. In this sense, the success of apiece of Art depends upon the purity of intent of the artist...
However, I digress. Though these ideas may seem a little outrageous to any mind running an "operating system" which does not support the occurrence of synchronistic, spontaneous manifestions of desire, within their own operating system, they are quite valid. All that is required is the shift of perception. 4-D art takes these concepts to a new level, where one creates a construct of Reality, a labyrinth of ideas and energies which lead the viewer down a rabbit hole; it is essentially sculpting a new reality definition- a new operating system, if you will. To do this, the Artist themselves must become the piece of artwork (hearkening back to Gandhi's "become the change you wish to see in the world.") As this occurs, as the Artist becomes the Artwork, all people that view the person, and the artifacts that person produces, the get sucked into the artwork; the ideas themselves by which 4d dimensional artwork is created, the palette of the artist, are designed to be a strange loop- they create a feedback distortion in the viewers conceptions of themselves, their world, and the 4d art being viewed; the best analogy is that of putting two mirrors facing each-other, which creates and infinite regression- it casts of forms.
When the viewer starts to interact with the Art, they themselves begin to participate in the creation of the artwork- as soon as they begin thinking about the ideas, the concepts, and interact with the artifacts of the Artist, they themselves begin to co-create the artwork. This is because the Artwork itself is composed of definitions of Reality, and the Art is produced by questioning definitions of Reality itself; as a person questions and explores, they themselves generate new artifacts in the environment which feed back in to the art.
With those basic ideas in mind, we can move to the use of the website. Certain images, words, concepts and ideas can all be utilized to create changes in the brain of the viewer; they infect their reality, causing not just the normal reaction, but a series of willed coincidences in their life even when they are not viewing the work itself; in some ways, it is the use of suggestion to effect changes (in the way that if i write "do not think of the color green" you inevitably do- however, this principles is applied in much subtler ways.) The website will be an interactive domain of related concepts; the goal is to make a website which is dynamic, driven by some form of AI which learns as users interact with it. As the user digs deeper into the website, more coincidences will infect their lives, moving them into the black hole of eventual Singularity. As they move inwards, they also move outwards- since this artwork is 4D so called, it HAS to be connected to physical places and people; thus the participants in the website will move closer into proximity to the heart of the artwork, the group of Creators of the website. This will open them into a whole new world, where the ideas and concepts they interacted with are not just lifeless ideas, but are vital expressions of a reality which is being lived by the Artists themselves.
This whole construct allows us to begin to redefine the boundaries of reality for anyone choosing to participate; it will challenge all current conceptions, from the use of money, ethics, god, the universe, the nature of humanity, technology, agriculture- it will uproot the deepest tendencies we tend to take for granted about the world we live in; and it will allow the users to begin to take back their own power to define based upon their own intelligence and their highest ideals about the world.
The Artwork also goes a step further by adding in a form of Live Action Roleplaying; much like those games "an evening of murder"but taken to the extreme. Each participant in this "game" plays themselves. Their job is to be a detective of sorts, to uncover a plot line which is unfurled for them in their every day life; the game masters of the game create situations through NPC's, actors given direction to initiate certain information in the lives of the players. The story would slowly unfold; however, the magical part of this whole is that the players are not allowed to talk about the game, thus they never know is an event was planned ahead of time, or is "actually happening". Such suspended belief allows for the maximum amount of randomness and synchronicity to occur, and in tandem with the website, would allow the highest potential for the unfoldment of the Artwork itself. There would be a team of people all "writing" the story for the Game as it unfolds, generating encounters for the participants in order to keep the direction moving properly; it would be written as the story itself unfolds, interacting and playing with the players rather than having a static conception of a set "story." In this way, as well, as people participate, as they do deeper down the rabbit hole, they begin themselves to help to write the story, thus again becoming an interaction of the Project (the 4d art).
The whole thing can be seen as a strategy for changing peoples current conceptions of the world in a fun, dynamic way; a form of participatory ontological anarchism. It then becomes a vessel for new ideas which normally do not get much thought by the outside world; and the whole thing it still under the heading of "art".
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Comments:
everything you've written here jives with my understanding of the Project, which is, in a nutshell: the project starts off as a single point. to that point ideas, information, and energy can be applied to coat that point with layers of interaction (content, acts, connections, missions, experiences). as layers are piled on, the scope expands and expands, interweaving through lives and experience, mind and time. eventually it grows to create a Philosopher's Stone of sorts. it is a Great Work, a Conspiracy, an Art Project, an Alternate Reality Game and a Psychedelic Labyrinth that leads to the Eschaton and beyond into...something else.
of course, grand visions are the easy part: to me the important question is how to solidify the first layer. i imagine the idea is to start with the site, which is at least initially the focal point of all the myriad processes. but is there an overarching model? a symbolic system? an event? what kind of images and content form the first layer of interaction? to me there should be some kind of design from the beginning to make this thing a Strange Attractor: something with provocative, transformative content, as well as pseudo-brand style memes which can send their tendrils out to the interwebs to integrate other conspiracies, pull in more psychic energy and interest from the aggregators and feeds. if the initial Seed is powerful enough, it seems like the momentum of accelerating time will be able to more automatically force the crustalization of more and more layered action - more and denser connections in 4d spacetime, in other words.
do you have any concrete plans along these lines? the initial phase seems essential.
well, the most important part has been turning myself into the seed, so to speak; for the art to work, the point of explosion needs to be an individual consciousness which explodes outwards- thus, I have tried to mold myself to become infective to the change I want to see; from myself, it spreads to those I interact with, slowly but surely; I see the same basic principle in the whole 100th monkey phenomena, if enough people are infected by it, it jumps to the next stage, etc.
As for practical steps, it requires a few in different areas. This blog is one of the first ones, a place to slowly spread outwards, even just the ideas themselves reaching with tendrils to people. The website is a slow process; I have an Adept who is willing to help work out some of the deeper aspects of the website, as I learn some of the Knowledge, etc. The website will be built in layers, as the website learns and evolves along with the Group mind behind it. Another step working in tandem is the slow creation of a Secret Society; we have informing currents from Martinism, Masonry, Golden Dawn, A.'.A.'. FLO (even got Bavarian Illuminati currents involved) which are part and parcel of that initial power of the seed. We, of course, could not have done this on our own- but the connection which has been provided to us has the energy for it all. Thus, we are also working slowly, at first, on a secret society; a fully secret one, which is kept private, so the energy is contained and controlled.
In a practical sense, we are starting in our home town. We are selling the ideas to as many people as we can, networking here and pulling people together. The physical goal is a participatory economic structure placed inside a corporate entity which would become essentially the energy of the hippy mass movement combined with the organization of new society; allowing a physical manifestation of the principles of the Project- redesigning local reality, experimenting with alternative technologies in agriculture, psychology, biology and computers and applying them to making a better way of life. Thus, we are thinking of various things, such as student run student housing, we are starting up a community center to run these principles in microcosmic form; setting up and working out legal loopholes for the War- channeling as many facets of the local economy into ourselves and our economic black hole- until we gestate big enough to spread ourselves to new areas, and continue it there.
As it grows, as we acquire more people, we acquire new resources, new talents, etc. Even one new person who is fully on board for this form of Revolution increases the collective Project exponentially.
In many ways, this project is already going on all around; much of the conspiracy culture is already doing it, redefining reality- but many dont seem to do it consciously, but rather in a negative paranoid kind of way. Speculation about what we are doing in the goal, for speculation leads to more manifestations of the magical intent.
We are also working on designing the LARP which will augment into this all, something that people can play anywhere, which will start as a normal game, so called, but be designed to incorporate wider aspects of the Unfolding Vision into the players; kinda like Call of Cthulhu LARP mixed with D&D, illuminati, and the world we currently live in. The Project will require the participation of people of different strands of thought who have various areas of specialization, political, social, cultural, etc. who each will develop certain aspects of the LARP world that will be used.
All of these lines are kinda being simultaneously developed. I am writing an essay, about 50 pages or so long, which presents the Energy of the project in a form that I intend to become as infective as I myself have tried to make myself; I am going to try taking it around to various Festivals, like burning man, to Sell myself and the ideas to people; if I can even find one private funder for the Project, I can expand it so much larger. So my main COA is to spread the ideas as much as possible, and to network as much as possible.
I agree with your idea of making it stylish, design it well; make it really infective. Good design is hard. I have an idea of the feeling of it, of the thing I am going for; straight black and white, almost alien feeling; using lots of sacred geometry, crop circles images, words, etc. The interface of the site I am trying to work out first and foremost, after I get the intro page finished. The intro I have worked out so far; but as I said, the hardest part is a good interface, and a database. I am hoping to hook it to some form of AI, but that is far beyond my expertise. If i could get a grant for the Project as a work of Art, I was thinking I could hire people to help with it; or hopefully find people that like the idea enough to help out.
I figure the concept of the idea is basically in line with the 2012 Strange Attractor energy anyways; this is just a way of manifesting into a flesh of sorts, giving it a way to have a voice to the world, and to take control of the unfolding of the Project itself. Manifest intelligence. The hardest part, as you said, is this initial time; getting it packaged and ready for full export to the public. The whole thing needs to be designed to unfold and pull in naturally, and after that, it will take care of itself; basically outside anyones hands, in some ways. Though, since it will be connected to a magical secret society, the Project will feed people towards that and the entire magical world in general.
It is still in infancy, and it is a lot of work to manifest it; lots of things to iron out, to think about and develop, but so far, it is proving to be a lot of fun....
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