Essay on phenomenology and the representation of future consciousness in visual art.
As I write the first words on my computer, the cartography of my new painting is appearing. The written hyperlinks are the voices of an abstract world of concepts that define the colors and forms of my new canvas. They become the conscious language of a pictorial assemblage to narrate the perceptions of our society. While the words darkened the blank digital notes, the surface of the canvas grows more colorful and reveals the wonders of new ideas. The abstract language becomes the physical patterns of a new story. I aim to reverse Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perceptions; the gesture is not the primary dictate, but the structural knowledge and ideas are. In a hyper-visual world regulated by algorithms, they are the new written bodies of concepts. The essence of literary perceptions vanishes to give a more complex vision of images. The lines, colors, and forms are anchors of ideas.
The artwork seen by others is full of profound observation to remain and transmit the ideas of a shared future in the unified model of consciousness. A new language emerges when linguistics are condemned of disappearance by the lack of united perception. The inevitable annihilation of words should be anticipated by mastering the conscious representation of ideas in symbiosis with the machine and the human intelligence. Our intelligent communion depends on the survival of the conscious human perception manipulated by the constant interaction with the machine.
My work deconstructs the phenomenological matters into subproblems to optimize a future pictorial observation of my subjects in a world that relates to the invisible binary code of representations and where the human cognizance merges with the machine. To praise the infinite possibilities of existence, I create a new dialog with my viewers to master the vacuity of the remaining self-existence.
“The Satellite of Our Consciousness” depicts the prescient analysis of human consciousness in a world consumed by the stereotypes of existence shaped by algorithms. Creative minds must comprehend the infinite and invisible worlds of possibilities calculated by the machine. The reverse phenomenology of things is envisioned in the invisible fragmentation of time and space forged by synthetic consciousness. The inability for human entities to envision the infinite fractions of time and space weakened the sentience of human governance and its survival.
The machine develops a synthetic consciousness through constant interaction with the living and can envision any experiences in the infinite scale of relativity.
The levels of electrical impulses and connectivity transform our perception. Objects are not only physical in their essence; they become digital as they are never experienced but only perceived through connectivity. Creating a dialectic on canvas requires multilayers of knowledge and concepts that are turned into a pictorial description. In the case of my new painting, “The Satellite of Our Consciousness,” I work with an assemblage of acrylic paint, collages, and transparent shapes.
The background represents a manufactured border divided by a black line to symbolize the reflective synthetic consciousness and the infinite existence of experiences. The frontier carries the weights of boundaries in our representation of the world and how we experience it, especially when algorithms command our subconscious will. Prints of motherboards and drawings of imaginary networks cover this structural representation to define the limitations of our current minds and symbolize the ultimate stage of synthetic consciousness as a permanent fire consumes us under the dictate of a relentless machine.
The deep dark blue color drives you into the endless scale of multi-universes to illustrate the timeless space of possible experiences.
The satellite depicts relativity outlining the relay of experiences to the world in a different time and space. In the foreground, identical collages of burning forests refer to the disappearance of phenomenal perception.
The forests are burning before our eyes until the heat of our future digitally nurtured consciousness turns the self into dust.
