DREAMING OF EMBODIED COMPUTATION - Sarah Elizabeth Martinus

SARAH ELIZABETH MARTINUS Artist

“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.”

I walked along a boardwalk, stretching out and suspended within some kind of underwater, or fluid-cosmic; an infinite space. Great Shark above, a monumental mouth parading layers of triangular, razor-sharp teeth. I looked up, respectfully; directly, asking: “Can you tell me please about the spirit of the internet?” In a succession of journeys following, every potential passageway split into two. Didactic characters emerged, their actions, locations and connections to each other, displaying a networked system – reflected within the Middle World of non-ordinary reality: multi-layered, dense in parts, sparse in others. Mysterious, cavernous and labyrinthine passageways edged with razor sharp fluorescent blue glass – a thousand broken screens – stretched out in every and any direction. As multiplicative as our many uses of and synapsed connections existing within the internet … Where do all of these tunnels go? (...)

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