Current media developments on the Internet celebrate real-time as the promise of an eternal now and an apparent spatial accessibility. The media phenomenon of the temporal modus in real-time demands unlimited contemporaneity. The media-based now – the process of the immediate transfer of information and the prompt exchange of image, sound and text – can, in this context, be brought into association with improving efficiency, user optimisation and the illusion of transparency. Marc Lee contrasts this with a spiritual idea of the now. In various spiritual teachings, a conscious ‘living in the present moment’ is described as a condition of knowledge and enlightenment, transcending both space and time. The hippie movement of the 1960s had a particular affinity for meditation, which promised salvation through being in the now. Lee considers real-time images to be an unfiltered reproduction of reality. In his work, thus, it is less the real-time transmission and much more the real-time mode that is put in context with the spiritual ideas of the hippie movement, which championed an anti-authoritarian and anti-hierarchical world and world orders. On the day that it went online, there was a post hippie performance, during which the webcam switched between the persons who were present and transmitted the images to the website of www.collective-view.ch. During the following weeks, the webcam was suspended upside down in the trees above the performance location, and traces of the performance were still visible. During this time further performances took place, spontaneously and unpredictably. 

Text: Damian Jurt 

The Value of the Present Moment

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Screenshot video captured from the Speculative Evolution mobile app 

In this experiment, you are invited to use DALL-E to create new animal, fungi, plant and robot variations and fly with them through a speculative ecosystem from the perspective of an AI agent. These hybrid creatures are modeled on real-life counterparts and are based on scientific publications in the field of genetic engineering and synthetic biology, which can be viewed by lineage. In this speculative simulation, robotic sensors are used to run through cycles of perception, calculation and action. You can experience how an AI tries to calculate all the components of an ecosystem in order to control and balance an uncontrollable ecosystem. 

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The Corona TV Bot thematises and reflects the Coronavirus Pandemic through social media contributions. On hashtags like Coronavirus and COVID-19, the latest Twitter and YouTube news are interwoven into a wild TV show, 24/7 online. Images, tweets and videos flicker across the screen in real time in this net art project. Time-based resources that combine both worldwide professional broadcasts and very private content published by individuals on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. While, as users of social networks we typically only ever see variants of our own opinions mirrored back to us on social media, TV Bot is intended to confront us with views beyond the bounds of these echo-chambers, due to it universally picking up all searched for hashtag posts on a non-critical basis. 

Recordings of the 24/7 online net art work Corona TV Bot. 

During the coronavirus pandemic, a 6-hour screen capture was recorded every 198 hours (every eight days at different times of the day and night) over two years to capture the pandemic news from different parts of the world. These 6-hour historical resources can be confronted with each other in a time-based sequence, for example, to make cultural, economic and political factors, differences, development and change comprehensible. 

Corona TV Bot

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With this 360° New Media Art Mobile VR App Time to Nest Time to Migrate you fly through your own inner world. What happens there? Bacteria, cells, fungi, parasites, phages, protists, prions, viruses communicate. Do they determine what we are? Not scientific, but rather fake scientific, philosophical and emergency poetically. (We know that we know nothing, we know). A little dance of life and death. 

The project aims to nurture a sense of wonder, enchantment, and respect towards the unknowns of our bodies. 

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