Time has come to complete AMERIKA ART. The last steps are done. Time to present THE INTERVIEWS with the artists at the Surreal Art Gallery. Time to rise the Dream Machines to the Sky. ONLY ONE DAY left tells us Laibach. We must hurry. Watch out for the personal invite by Juliette Surreal-D.
Only one day is left Only one day We are leaving the others We’re going awayToday we all steal Animals we are Possession is lostOur souls are from the wild And wings to reach the sky Let the sun fall into the ocean, Let the earth erupt in flameIt is enough to have the strength And knowledge To raise our dream machines Into the skyLet them sleep who do not know The final day is here The very last And we leave at dawnMillions of machines on nitroglycerin Thunder in us There is no force no money and no power To stop us now and change our fate Before we riseNow every problem is destroyed We raise our hands and bodies to the peak Into the Universe – towards the stars we go Sending machines up to the skyMachines we are sending to the skies Above us all And leave behind those who don’t know Of the final day We leave in sleep those who don’t know (and) we leave at dawn We are driven by the be -machine
What an interview text that Laibach sends us from NSK to end AMERIKA ART and to open THE AFTERLIFE!
The catalogue of Amerika Art is now available FOR DOWNLOAD as a High-res PDF. The file size is 100 MByte. You may like to page through before you decide, right? You can do this in the INTERNET ARCHIVE where you find a backup of the catalogue.
TODAY a NEW FRAME will open. It is the PUT IN METAVERSE. I found a cat that is putting in right now the first pieces in a barrel, yes a cat, but that will be another story.
Today, April 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM. Please arrive in time as the laudatio starts at 1:03 and can’t be repeated.
The Book for the art show will be presented and there is a program not to miss. This diagram gives an overview showing the approach: Art in Opensimulator is re-shown in SL, is printed in a book and will be conserved and as a world premiere you can look inside the happening of today via FRAMEVR.IO/amerika
The book is ready to print and is already inworld available as prim book. There is a sneak preview uploaded from a blurb preview so some corrections can be made before it is printed.
There are right now so many activities in the META about the war that we created and uploaded a RAW file of the borders of the State of Ukraine. This land will be used to place the current activities there. One is Tryzub.Ink – This project is not connected to AMERIKA ART. It is part of LEIPZIG.ART and DEFINE.ART
The Tryzub is heavily used in military heraldry to commemorate the participation on the Eastern Front during World War II. At least 36 units of the Italian Army carry the Tryzub in their Coat of Arms, as they were awarded a Medal for Military Valor during their service on the territory of Ukraine.
Despite what Anonymous says: MOEX IS UP AND RUNNING.
I was shocked. BREAKING NEWS. Every artist should be when it was aired that MOEX is down. But as so often it was a hoax. MOEX was never down. MOEX is safe and running inside AMERIKA ART. What was down was the MOSCOW EXCHANGE. I looked at Anonymous@YourAnonOne – a posting
on Twitter — and then I did a ping on “it.”
What a relief. It was just the Moskow Exchange and not the world of Art. So as stated before: AMERIKA WORLD IS UP AND RUNNING and you can Hyperjump in the Metaverse.
We are META, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget. Expect us.
The program is out. Be there in time. January 10 at 11:00 AM PDT.
The Hypergrid URL is craft-world.org:8002:Amerika
For the Public Award, we have a voting system that works with a click.
Click on the plate when you are in an art installation. It is located next to the TP-Back pyramid. You will be asked to give a LIKE, a VOTE or both. Some artists don’t take part in the voting, so don’t wonder if you don’t see such a plate. There is a HELP Button explaining the ways.
Check out the recording that was streamed on the internet archive
On January 10th will be the #01 GO. We will have a full day of Grand Openings. Each contributor will be scheduled so whenever the sun rises do it:
BRING YOURSELF BACK ONLINE.
And here is why you shall do so. That was GO #00 – THE GO at the OSCC on December 12, 2021.
We might open the regions of Amerika World at 7:55 AM PDT [17:00 CET] when the curators Art Blue and Juliette Surreal-D will be going online – as every program has to start somewhere. At 1:00 PM PDT the mascot of Amerika Art – Glenda 9 – might join. Soon you will find the timetable.
Is there something to read before January 10th? Yeah, we offer a DRAFT.
IN AMERIKA WE TRUST
The Co-curator of Amerika Art, Kisma Reidling, told me, “You shall tell in the book why you themed Amerika Art this way, the Afterlife. Why one shall buy it.” I said no one will buy the book, it will be online and free to download and that my personal opinion is not what counts in Amerika Art, that WE ARE GOING TO AMERIKA is a travel beyond, a trip every artist has to go —
— but noticed while speaking with her that this all is just an excuse as I give the awards by my sole choice, there is no jury and I might be more bias than anyone else. My view on art is quite narrow minded, minimal, boxed, boring and weird. What changed in me because now you find some words which Kisma was asking me to put in place?
After I performed Hypercolour Blue for the Grand Closing of Secondhand Tutti’s as an end of year tribute to her installation From My Bed I Dream of Life I considered Kisma’s request. Ten years ago Steve Jobs passed and my show Hypercolour Blue was a tribute to him. Why to him and not to Tutti? The deconstruction of what Secondhand Tutti created and presented at Second Linden Endowments for the Arts (SLEA) for a time span of six months deserve that I focus on her, right? It was the last day of her art spanning over a full sim. Then it went to the ashes. I connected her work and her fate to Rembrandt in the way it was done in Sense 8 – Obligate Mutualisms 1).
Standing as Art Blue in front of her bed in a Vitruvian pose, she suffering from Covid, I aired the last words of Steve Jobs “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” 2) Hours later he passed away and I lost one of my early sponsors tough he might never have noticed that he had been. I was looking back to 1981 when Apple supported one of my early computer art showings. The Munich office of Apple had to ask “The Big Boss.” They told me later that “he” agreed. Maybe they just honoured my endurance. It was a tiny grant to get the catering at the Munich Stadtmuseum covered. This backlink already shows that my view is technology-driven. The former name of the Munich Stadtmuseum is Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology. That I never studied art but was teaching the art of programming at the department of the arts at the University of Munich adds to my narrow-minded view. I said to Kisma, that she shall write the text she is asking for. That her English is much better than mine. In her novels the magic of the afterlife happens, you meet fairies, Gods and Goddesses, you discover the myth of ancient cultures, all this you can also see in her paintings. She did not take the ball. After half an hour of talking, she said: “Everything you just told me is what you should write down.”
I offered her a different solution. She shall log in with her avatar Juliette Surreal-D and interview the artists, asking them what made them apply to Amerika Art, what are their thoughts on the Afterlife. What they see in their work. It might result in a big contrast to my view of their work — and that is what happened. Afterlife is something you crave to get, but you don’t get answers at all — if you don’t listen to me. I am Ervare. 3) I am Art Blue. I am the reborn Wahtye. I grabbed his domain so you can easily find me in the Afterlife. But this would be a different story.
May the odds be ever in your favour.
Amerika, December 31, 2021
Reiner Schneeberger
1) Voices and sound of the 3rd part of the show, the Uplift (in which the audience travelled to several stations referring to the work of SH Tutti), is conserved in the internet archive at https://archive.org/details/sht-hcb-3
We went with the Uplift into META at OSCC 21 so let us keep it this way. On December 22 we will repeat this Uplift in Craft World at Amerika Sandbox. For this, we moved Meta (the content) vom the AvaCon grid to Craft World. But it is Christmas, right? So we called for Santa and, believe it or not, Santa agreed and he will be there.
We welcome you at 12:00 PM PDT and offer you time to walk a bit around, to watch the machinima of WizardOz Chrome on Youtube and to get the HUDs. Then at 12:20 we jump on the chairs for the Uplift. About 25 minutes later we are at the top at 4,600 meters and then Venus Adored will repeat her short show from OSCC 21 META in the Dome where the Long-Legged Maskitt and Glenda 9 are waiting.
Then Juliette will hand over some Christmas gifts — for good girls and Santa maybe — for bad boys. We have to see!
And once more Merry Christmas from the Metaverse to you all.
We made it! The first UPLIFT to the Meta at OSCC. There have been more living persons than the transporter could take, so we set up another one for December 15 at 12:00 PM PDT in CRAFT WORLD. And we have the award winners — to be announced SOON in Hypergridbusiness …
And this is the story behind:
GOING TO META
Everyone goes right now into Meta, right? We went into Meta 15 years ago, but even we have not been the first. If you ask Google. “When did people start using the word meta?” You get the straight answer: “The first known use of meta was in 1988.” This reference is dated October 30, 2021.
Why is time so important? Because artists extend the time, shift the time, move the time forward and backward. Tomorrow Amerika Art will move forward in time right to the Afterlife in the Meta. That this move connects to the Pharaohs of Old Egypt might be surprisingly on first glance, but on a second view, it is quite obvious. Wahtye, the High Priest of Pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai gave us a blueprint for the Meta, for a digital life in the server.
Of course we speak of the Opensimulator Conference that runs now in the 9th edition and opens tomorrow the Opensimulator Art on a sim named Meta.
The curators Art Blue and Juliette Surreal-D will present the award holders and invite us to an Uplift into the Meta from ground level up to 4,600 meters where the trophies wait to be awarded.
The Canadian artist Bryn Oh created a bronze statue named Maskitt, which purifies the air in a dystrophic world where the environment is overpoluted, so nature will finally flourish again. That this Maskitt has long legs, looks like a species from the outer world shall give us second thoughts how the machine in the future will look.
Three years ago the Long-Legged-Maskitt was given at the Santorini Biennale Immersivia to SH Tutti, Venus Adored, Art Eames, WizardOz Chrome and Rory Torrance.
This year there will be given a scripter award as virtual art moves towards programmed art, static buildings are on the move. Same goes for painters in the real word. Due to the pandemic painters go online, in various ways. One way is to go immersive, to use opensimulator. The award in this category comes from the future, from the greatest artist of all times. The name, T.T. – Tillo Tallo. That many messages are cryptic and might stay this way is a characteristic of the arts. But later when we look back it is not all cryptic. Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Franke created in 1979 the first interactive art machine with controlled randomness inside, today we would stay an AI was running and creating the art in a symbiosis with the user. That’s why the scripters award goes by the pen Name of H.W. Franke, the name Sergius Both. He chose this name to publish one of his first Science Fiction stories “Planet of the lost” (1963) — being not sure if he will make a career as a writer. At this time he was working as a theoretical physicist at Siemens.
The event GOING TO META happens on Sunday, December 12 at 11:00 AM PDT and is life streamed on the Avacon Cannel. The machinima We Are Going To Amerika, created by the Italian Videographer WizardOz Chrome will be premiered.
For the immersive experience you need to log in, but you know this, it’s for the Meta. Happy hyperjumping, and that is the URI to go — cc.opensimulator.org: 8002/OSCC Keynote 2
Do you want to meet a true American Hero? There is a chance on December 12, 2021 at 11:00 PDT (Los Angeles time). Grifer McNewbie, created in the early days by Arcadia Asylum aka Aley, is the premier pizza deliverator in the Metaverse. He calls himself now Hero Deliverator. Let us celebrate his new brand FROZEN META.
Why is the fastest pizza deliverator named HERO? Everyone knows his name in Snowcrah is Hiro. Yeah, Hero is the grandson of Hiro and this will be his first delivery to sim META in OSCC grid, but pssst … Grandpa is watching.
Do you feel lost? Have you skipped history classes at school?
Let me give you a piece from the novel, solely for educational and historic purposes because you shall understand that when Hiro, the now grandpa was young he truly needed to work on his cooperation skills. That the grandson is kind of a replica, yeah that is the Metaverse, right?
” … This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it—talking trade balances here—once we’ve brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they’re making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here—once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel—once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity—you know what? There’s only four things we do better than anyone else:
music movies microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery
The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator’s report card would say: “Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills.”
So now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved—but no cooperation either. Just a single principle: the Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car, file a class-action suit. The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes.”
DECEMBER 12, 2021, 11:00 AM – 12:150 PM PDT (Los Angeles time).
WE ARE GOING TO AMERICA. That was the message the Pilgrims followed in 1620. AMERIKA is a village in Germany carrying the German / Dutch / Africaans / Turkey name for America so the slogan goes also this way: WE ARE GOING TO AMERIKA. Common between all languages is that we are leaving the borders of the old worlds behind. In May 2022 will be the award ceremony in the real Amerika Museum in Germany.
One year ago the call was made at OSCC20 for an immersive art competition, called AMERIKA ART. At OSCC21 the Grand Opening will happen. The Italian machinimist WizardOz Chrome created a machinima AMERIKA ART 2022 that will be presented, then everyone is invited to explore the art show and to give a vote that will result in the public award for one of the Long-Legged Maskitts, designed as a bronze statue by the Canadian artist Bryn Oh.
Amerika Art will be presented at the Opensimulator Community Conference 2021. After the announcement of the awards an UPLIFT will take place. One of the design elements of the UPLIFT will be the SCREEN HUD that takes control from the user by giving control to the Metaverse. SCREEN HUD has its origin in the INFINITE THEATRE that was used in various performances, one of them has been INFINITE DRIFTERS [page 21] in a grant given by Linden Endowments for the Arts in 2017.
The speaker will say: “Keep your music stream up and running at all times. …
Afterlife? What is Afterlife? We welcome you to listen to a unique announcement. Listen to the cybernetic brain Gregorovich with words from the novel Sleep In A Sea Of Stars, written by Christopher Paolini. Songs and lyrics are used by permission of Jennifer Hale and Todd Herfindal. …”
The first installation is called Last Step into reality, or more poetically, BACK TO THE SALT MINES, one of all the installations you can explore in Craft World. Read about this in rez Magazine June 2021.
Welcome to the first introduction to AMERIKA ART called TEMPUS EDAX RERUM. This word by Ovid “Time eats time” stands for a new world that is different, that overcomes biological limits, that creates eternity in the Digital. The engine eternal reaches out to our identity.
Assume you have never heard of THE INTERNET and today you will be among the first who hear about it. You will shake your head and most likely say “That’s nothing for me. For what shall this INTERNET be any good?”
Today we enter THE BLOCKCHAIN OF ART where we put our LIVES into it. Not all of us will be in it, only the artists who contributed to AMERIKA ART. They will be connected by an AI, an Artificial Intelligence, running on a blockchain created by Satoshi Nakamoto, he gives his ID for the Genesis Block, the very first block on the chain of in total 26 invited avatars. These avatars will be visualised by a neuronal network that Hashmask has coded for this event.
The event starts with a show by Venus Adored. The landmark you may ask for will bring you there. IM JulietteSurrealDreaming inworld SL. A performance in Opensimulator will follow at Amerika Events in Craft World.
At the end of the performance, there will be an artistic bridge to the environmental aspects of bitcoin mining. These and other aspects that come with AMERIKA ART will be discussed in an Art Talk in October. Each month will be one where various artists of AMERIKA ART will come in focus. Today we get them all connected as a start.
PART TWO (TURBINE HALL)
Everybody knows how to zoom, right?
Everybody knows how to run, right?
Everybody wants to be the winner, right?
Everybody loves the winner, right?
Everybody.
Who will be the hero of the day?
Say it! Say it!
(me me me)
And here comes the challenge.
Run and guess.
Speak with the framed avatars. Say to the frame whatever you like to say so the frame will understand that you have the knowledge of naming, the knowledge of claiming.
I see Bryn Oh. Do you see Bryn Oh? Then run to the frame and say, “I want the Three-Legged Maskitt Bryn Oh. I am born as a winner. Bryn Oh hear my cries. I am begging for the Maskitt”
And if the frame intelligence believes in you then the transformation of the frame will happen and you get one point. Then run to Cherry Manga, run to Molly Bloom, run to …
enough help given.
The one who deciphers the most names will get the Hashmask Avatar, will be framed for eternity, will be the T S N K O, The Still Not Known One and will be featured in Hashmask 1 5 7 7 5 3
Match the right name with the right frame. Chat with the frame and you might get rewarded.
Remember the winner takes it all.
Now time for the first blockchain for avatars in the history of mankind. Juliette you may cut the ribbon and the run for glory will happen.
Just let you know at the end we meet again here at this spot.
We will break virtuality and enter the real world. The world of Amerika Art.
Juliette?
J: Now I cut the ribbon ….
PART THREE (Finale in TURBINE HALL)
And at the end, you will meet Giotto di Bondone. The speaker will say:
Time has come to head to the end of the show. Like at the grand finale of a firework that was made to signal the end of a century something must happen, something you will later say, I was there. Now I understand, what a floor made of glass means in the Arts.
Please join Juliette and Art in the middle of the Turbine Hall. Step into the circle that will be drawn by the hands of Giotto. What is said about Giotto?
Almost every aspect of Giotto is subject to controversy: his birth date, his birthplace, his appearance, his apprenticeship, the order in which he created his works, whether he painted the famous frescoes in the Upper Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, and his burial place.
But what made him immortal was how he gave proof of his skills to Pope Benedict XI
“When Pope Benedict XI sent a messenger to Giotto, asking him to send a drawing to demonstrate his skill, Giotto drew a red circle so perfect that it seemed as though it was drawn using a pair of compasses and instructed the messenger to send it to the Pope. The messenger departed ill-pleased, believing that he had been made a fool of. When the messenger related how he had made the circle without moving his arm and without the aid of compasses the Pope and his courtiers were amazed at how Giotto’s skill greatly surpassed all of his contemporaries.” (Wikipedia)
You see that minimal art is not an invention of Art Blue. You see that the roots go back to the 13th century.
Today we will create a perfect circle in a digital world as an opener between virtual and real worlds. For this we need the Codemonkey, we need Art Eames.
One of us has to walk to the Frame where the code is hidden and call the monkey who created the new Giotto. This one will get a bonus point, but only when heading fast back to the circle.
Please come now to the meeting point and face a forced visit of reality, a reality in which the trees are planted by Giotto 9000. Reality must survive.
Enjoy a musical journey with Corporate Apple & meet Damien Hirst as the winner of AMERIKA ART in rez Magazine, August 2021, published by Jami Mills, Los Angeles. We know Damien Hirst does not take part, his work is not immersive. So why he got the Long-Legged Maskitt? It is about money, you know.
We are happy that we got in such a short time confirmation from artists living all over the globe to take part in AMERIKA.ART. All 16 rooms that GEM PREIZ created for the travel from AMERIKA to the AFTERLIFE are taken and we can close the year 2020 with a happy message.
We are well aware that the listing may change until 2022 when the art show happens. Each artist will be assisted during the creation process so we will get the most out of the project, one that has many layers.
You see N.N. That stands for an artist Kisma [Juliette] invited personally. This artist is right now on holiday, so let us wait for the update. For now congrats to:
ART EAMES, GERMANY — BRYN OH, CANADA — GEM PREIZ, FRANCE — GLYPH GRAVES, AUSTRALIA — ILYRA CHARDIN, USA — JAELLE FAERYE, FRANCE — KERUPA FLOW, JAPAN — KISMA REIDLING, USA — MOLLY BLOOM, USA — RAGE DARKSTONE, USA — SH TUTTI, IRELAND — STORMY SCORPIO, USA — TERRA MERHYEM, FRANCE –THOTH JANTZEN, USA — XIRANA OXIMOXI, SPAIN.
Artist for particle creation in Amerika Art: DELAIN CANUCCI, NETHERLANDS. Delain set her contribution to CC-BY. This license is the one Wikipedia uses for its content.
About 400 years ago the Pilgrims followed the call to reach out to a new world. Now another call to set an imprint of mankind is made, to travel to a new world. The name of this world differs, how it will look differs, how it will feel differs, how mankind will live in it differs. There have been pioneers ahead with the vision to create a time capsule and to carry the words of the chosen ones to the future.
Reiner Schneeberger (born 1957) claimed Art Blue as his avatar name for the passage into a virtual world and his mentor, Herbert W. Franke (born 1927), gave him the right to include parts of his legacy in the field of digital art and to create an award named Sergius Both, which was a pen-name Franke used for a novel he wrote in 1963. This novel, Planet Der Verlorenen (Planet of the Lost), ends with heading into outer space, “to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
Sergius Both Award
At the Award ceremony in Amerika, where the Sergius Both Award will be given for algorithmic and machine AI art, Franke will read the final passage from Planet of the Lost, expressing that the Digital Dawn, the travel to the unknown has just begun. A copy of the machine will be made available for the audience giving them a pre-scripted version on a stick. [Details will be worked out with the artists. The historical link is THE MONDRIAN machine, programmed by Herbert W. Franke in 1979, re-coded in 2016].
FIELDS OF AA
There are three major fields that are addressed in the Amerika Art Interbiennale: Immersionskunst (Immersive art), Building, Scripting and Painting. In each category an award will be given. This carries forward the already established Immersivia award by Santorini Biennale. In 2014 a digital division was installed that evolved through 2016 and 2018 to become an internationally recognised division as Immersionskunst (Interactive Immersive Art).
The Long-Legged Maskitt Award.
This award comes with a bronze statue made by the Canadian artist Bryn Oh. It covers the category Immersionskunst and Building. The award was first given at 1Biennale 2018 IMMERSIVIA at Santorini.
TT Award.
The Tillo-Tallo Award goes for real-life painters who chose a virtual reality realm to present their work, a category that reaches forward in time. One painting — or a shot done in the virtual world where the paintings are — will be printed on paper and a copy handed out to the visitors of Amerika Art in the village of Amerika.
Who is TT and why Art Blue decided to create this award will be uncovered one day before the Award ceremony in the gallery N40 in Leipzig, Germany with a Grand Opening of TT’s work.
Artists
Some artists followed the early call, some have been personally invited. The open call is now closed. The ones listed have confirmed their commitment and are heading to present their work until June 2021. Then the tuning and the technical alignments will be done. Book creation and the machinima by WizardOz Chrome will happen in late 2021. The Event-Table for 2022 to happen in Amerika and the city of Penig will follow — depending on travel restrictions due to the Corona Crisis it might be May 2022. [Please have a look at the slides presented at OSCC20 on December 5th, 2020 when the call WE ARE GOING TO AMERIKA was made.]
Creative Commons
The collection shown in Amerika Art will be conserved, in other words, a backup is made and the objects and scriptures are kept alive. The Terms of Service [TOS] are fitting for this purpose. All artists retain full copyrights on their work and through the Creative CommonsLicence have the ability to set the permissions if they choose to share any or all portions of their work with visitors from CC-BY-NC-ND up to CC-0.
TOUCHSTONE DIGITAL has many faces. One is the face of AMERIKA.ART. AMERIKA is real, it is a village in Saxony. AMERIKA is virtual, it is a worldwide event running on OPENSIMULATOR at AMERIKA.WORLD.
Whatever you are looking for AMERIKA is a TOUCHSTONE in technology and the arts. I SEE YOU IN AMERIKA was the start at OSCC20: WE ARE GOING TO AMERIKA. Join THE CALL as an ARTIST right now, or see you in 2022 as a USER.
A USER is a good thing, but best to check it out at rez Magazine.
The left one comes with a code locator. The right one brings you most likely to this page. Join one of the seminars at AMERIKA when the time has come and get to know the secrets of art and technology.
NERUVAL, the owl, has sent to rez Magazine a short story A SMALL STEP FOR (A) MAN that predicts the outcome of THE ELECTION. … but first, a picture of the Superspreader, so you get the tunes for it.
VIRAL. VIRAL. VIRAL.
I am in the news. My name got viral. I am viral, viral, viral, like Picasso. I made it to every talk show. I hold the German version of the Picasso collection of Museum Ludwig in hand, a book with the title “Ich und ich und ich” which stands in German for I and I and I. My bio is being presented. A faked one, what else. My agent gets calls from everywhere. I am the first participant in the upcoming Global Biennale, the name of it AMERIKA.ART. I proudly hold the domain ichundichundich.de which stands for Picasso. I out myself as the Superspreader who wasn’t one. I am living in an immersive world. I create my own reality: “I and I and I.”
If one asks me how I came to the number 26 that I have printed proudly on my shirt, yeah, boom … I bring my story in and say, that I am between a square (52 + 1) and a cube (33 − 1) and that I have 26 faces like a Rhombicuboctahedron. That’s truly an artistic way to say that I am one of a kind, that I well deserve to be part in AMERIKA.ART and point to Wikipedia to push away any remaining doubts.
Do you know that Amerika is a tiny village in Saxony, a state competing in performance with Bavaria? Maybe the Minister-President of Saxony will do the opening speech and laying the foundation stone for the server. The American Ambassador visited Amerika already, so I am quite sure that Michael Kretschmer, the Head of State, will not want to miss it. It is election time, you know.
WIKIPEDIA
Only 30 seconds more and we are done. You know 30 seconds to Mars? You may know the group but you might not know how the group came to its name. You will seek in Wikipedia, right? Imagine a time when everyone looking in Wikipedia will find a different version, depending on age, religion, status and so on. You wonder on “30 seconds to Mars?” Why shall this page come different for different mindsets? I can ensure you, this page is not affected, but when you Google for Postal Voting the result change by the place you are living in and on what postings you gave a “Like” to on facebook. This reality is already happening. In case you want to know more, watch the documentary I have for you.
The documentary is
called, The Social Dilemma and it is
on Netflix. Check it out. It is worth 90 minutes of your time. Then vote. Here
is the trailer on YouTube.
AMERIKA.ART happens in AMERIKA. Historically the name AMERIKA comes from “crossing the river.” The art show, which has a teaching component in it “HOW TO CREATE IMMERSIVE ART”, is planned for 2022.
There is more to read about the idea at AMERIKA.ICU — And monthly in rez Magazine, the leading paper for Immersive Worlds.
[TEXT in GERMAN …] The art year 2020 is about to collapse. When you look at the list of international art fairs which are still supposed to happen in 2020 then the list becomes shorter and shorter by the day. The latest victim is the Frieze Art Fair London which was cancelled a few days ago. Frieze London was supposed to happen from October 8 to 11. The Frieze Art Fair in New York has already been cancelled. Frieze Art Fair and Frieze Masters made it with over 60,000 visitors to one of the top art exhibitions in the world. The biggest art show, Art Basel, first moved the timeline to September 2020 and finally cancelled it; it is planned to restart in June 2021. MiArt Art Now in Milano, having its focus on photography and moving images, turned the negative message flow and announced to happen September 11 for three days with “an exclusive online” event and opening VIP day two days prior.
Right now, the
homepage for MiArt presents an alphabetically sorted list of galleries where
the partners of MiArt Art Now provide links to their webpages. It seems that
much still has to happen to change MiArt to an immersive interactive art fair,
giving MiArt not an extension, but more of a warp jump. Such a new term for art
going online already exists.
I
would like the word MiaMerse and there is a reason. Italy is the home of
“The Biennale.” We all know it is the Biennale di Venezia. What most
people might not know how it started. The Venice show was compared to other art
shows at this time, like The Salon de Paris, tiny, but it had its scandal which
attracted the masses, a painting by Giacomo Grosso, Il supremo convegno, 1895.
Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, who later became Pope Pius X, forbid priests to have a look at this sinful painting. Maybe it was pre-immersive?
IMMERSIVENESS
Immersiveness has
become a mass noun, like information, so it needs a specification, it needs a
pointer. Wikipedia specifies it with “uncountable” and asks users of
the word to specify, “The quality or degree of being immersive” and
also for “the immersiveness of virtual reality.”
Three steps have identified by the most successful Santorini Biennale creating the format IMMERSIVIA in pre-Corona times: Immersive, Interactive and Avatar Awareness. In 2016 the immersive art show occurred for the second time by showing the Surreal Cube and in 2018 the Biennale Institute developed the 1Biennale format joining Santorini Biennale on the Greek Island. Both Biennales were curated by myself with the assistance of Juliette Surreal-D. Nevertheless, when it comes to numbers THE WRONG Biennale has set the standard for going digital, by showing this year over 2,300 artists. It became the biggest art show in the world. But numbers aren’t everything, right?
What does immersive art mean? It means art that is embedded in our digital life. It means that the artists and the visitors interact inside the computer via art experiences. Computers are not only PCs with a screen. There are interactive apps, like THE FAKED in THE WRONG, there are Head-Mounted-Displays, there are educational pathways since Google set their cardboard system on opensource. There are walkable worlds where avatars explore the art. The list of these systems is long.
Museo del Metaverso
Hearing
the name Museo del Metaverso one’s mind instantly travels to Rome and when you
dig deeper it travels to Constantinople, the city we know now as Istanbul. So,
occident meets the museum that goes by the short form MdM was designed by Elif
Ayiter in 2015 and is curated once it went online by Rosanna Galvani. Elif
Ayiter is a professor of design at Sabanci University in Istanbul and a pioneer
in immersive art. Rosanna Galvani is an Italian art curator whose mission is to
present art at MdM. It is a search, a step into a new dimension.
Elif Ayiter was well aware when designing the MdM that it cannot have any boundaries, it must be made to be extended at any time. On the other hand, there shall be no heavy luggage needed for an artist to contribute. The MdM has to link to different kinds of artists to visitors also of different types in any manner you might think of. I remember the exhibition “In Search of Balkania” in 2002 in the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria where the curators Roger Conover, Eda Cufer and Peter Weibel wrote an introduction that is worth sharing:
“If on one level
In Search of Balkania is a rendez-vous with a dented landscape full of used
parts and accidental art, where the real still matters and storefront windows
resemble surrealist displays, on another level it is a virtual encounter with a
symbolic geography that will be the 21st century’s most important fold: where
East meets West, where Occident becomes Orient, and where none of the old lines
and myths about identity, self, nation, and other hold. Indeed, if this
exhibition presents a picture different from any picture previously shown in
Europe of the Balkans, it is that there is nothing in Europe but the Balkans.
Balkania is not a world unto itself, but a mirror onto all selves. To recognize
the Balkans is to recognize features and syndromes out of which cities, wars,
experiments, ideas and visions are composed.”
Balkania does not
exist. It was a proposed name for a state, a try to unite the later separated
countries Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro.
Digital Anthropocene
Our world changes
dramatically and Art is the motor, always has been and will always will be.
There is no life outside of algorithms, outside of digital tools. This insight
happens globally now and it is both breathtaking and scary. Are you positive or
negative? We will inform you within 24 hours, keep your smart phone close. Stay
at home until you know. Work digitally. This leads me to the question,
“What art fair will be known as The Immersive Pioneer?”
MiArt Art Now has the
chance, because there is a budget to turn the art world upside down. A wakeup
call is needed. Such a call can come from any place at any time. Corona is not
just a hurricane that passes over and then all goes back to normal.
Corona is Red, Amerika is Blue
Corona is red, not blue or green. It is an alert; it is a game changer. Many who see their home office as an intermission will learn otherwise, their life will become permanently digital. A digital mirror of life might be a fitting expression if one does not jump into Science Fiction and see Avatars as the sole identity makers. Space X promises to bring via Starlink at the end of 2020 internet with 1 GByte/sec and a latency of 25 Milliseconds to everyone in North America and one year later for everyone on earth. Thanks to Starlink the New Rural may become the New Smart. Stay Rural, find places, “… where life is running like a steady flow of bit coins running down the Crater Lake in Oregon.” That’s a quote from the Sand Bible, which deals with digital life and the role of the big players knowing everything, like the NGA. What we have learned by Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok is a call to be disruptive.
AMERIKA I C U
I C U (I see you) in
Amerika is such a call. It is an Art Call, it is surreal, it has to be, but it
carries also a deeper message, like In Search of Balkania. Amerika is a village
in Germany. Amerkia has a train station. What makes Amerika “so
wunderbar” I will tell you right away. Amerika is the German name for the
United States of America so things must be big if you get such a call. If you
look closer to Amerika, the call to Amerika, then you see the train station is
no longer in use. You see the power supply still there is labelled by the local
provider with ZAS Hp. Amerika. Amerika has no town-hall, no mayor. How can
Amerika send a call? A few days ago, a server was installed in Amerika. The
villagers, due to the last census in 2018, says there is a 57 population, and
these people have welcomed this upgrade. Now they have a server under the name
amerika.icu where thousands of artists can be hosted by Blue. Bluehost is a top
provider and number one in content hosting. The question will rise, if they
have exascale supercomputers to host them all, to flood the message that
Rammstein put together in a great video compilation airing the message:
“We’re all living in Amerika. Amerika ist wunderbar.”
About the Call
The Call “I C U
in Amerika” comes from Leipzig Art. Leipzig is listed by NY Times under
the best “52 places to go in 2020.” The distance from Leipzig to
Amerika is less than 40 miles. Quite a jump for “The Kids Cool Town”
(another name NY Times gave Leipzig) to have a server now in Amerika.
Applications for “I C U in Amerika” are open for 2022. They will be part of LEIPZIG.ART 2022.
AMERIKA.ART
In the meantime the name AMERIKA.ART could be successfully claimed.
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We develop and developed various technologies, all set on opensource so everyone can use it and hopefully prevent the idea from getting patented later. One is the dual-sim usage. You sit on one sim on a stick that has its root-prim on a different sim. This said, you can explore a change of the world you are sitting inside (on the stick that was rotated or moved over it).
We made this work in the Grand Opening of 1Biennale on a massive scale. The theory we presented at HIE.
Now we extended this and called it out-of-sim sitting in two ways. See more at OUTOFSIM.WORDPRESS.COM
