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How to Meditate with Nature

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2017

Video referencing the availability of self improvement and quick fix meditations online, inspired by the visual style of software tutorials. Drawing on Taoist philosophy of unification of the body and mind, I created an environment where the virtual and the real have merged, where sensual experience and internal states are visualized by the objective representations of the interface. William Gibson brings forth an idea of an „infinite cage”, stating that we, as carnate beings, are trapped by the possibility of infinity which cyberspace presents us. In a time of ecological crisis, the interface becomes an illusion of control, albeit also a trap that may well lead into demise.

Fedlev building & Benthem Crouwel building
Fred. Roeskestraat 96
1076 ED Amsterdam
Netherlands