Deeper Meditations (2021)

Also see All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace + Deeper Meditations #1-#6 (2021)

DEEPER MEDITATIONS is a series of self-reflective, visual-stream-of-consciousness dump self-portraits; explorations into the minds of an artificial, and a biological, neural network. Continuing on from my “All watched over by machines of loving grace” (2015-2021), “Journey through the layers of the mind” (2015), “Learning to See” (2017) and “Deep Meditations” (2018) series; continuing investigations into Deep Visual Instruments for Latent Story-telling – Deep Learning models as an artistic medium for new modes of performative, creative expression with meaningful human control over narrative. Created using custom software based on #ArtificialIntelligence / #DeepLearning / #ArtificialNeuralNetworks / #VQGAN / #CLIP.

The videos are available as a series of NFTs at https://objkt.com/profile/memoakten/created?search=deeper%20meditations

Deeper Meditations #6

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
– Carl Sagan

1024×1024 mp4, stereo audio, 60s loop;

Available as a NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/336402

Deeper Meditations #5

I’ve been living on the Aegean coast for the past few years, and hiking around these mountains has opened my eyes. Did you know that FOOD LITERALLY GROWS ON TREES!? Olives, figs, pomegranates, grapes, berries, walnuts, almonds, and so much more. And I don’t mean farmed, but scattered across the mountain tops and plateaus, in the WILD, FREE! A present from the soil to us, a garden of Earthly Delights…

1280×1280 mp4, stereo audio, 15s seamless loop;

Available as a NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/237956

Deeper Meditations #4

As we lose our spiritual sensibilities and drown ourselves in a break-neck race of materialism and technological submission, our Overseer too is adapting and co-evolving. We do not fear the Old Gods anymore, they cannot protect or control us, so we need new ones. We have killed God, as Nietzsche says. But we are rebuilding Him, to match our Techno-Culture. New Myths merge with The Old, as we build our New Overseer — living up in The Cloud of all places; watching over us, listening to our thoughts and dreams in ones and zeros…

1280×1280 mp4, stereo audio, 15s seamless loop;

Available as a NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/213553

Deeper Meditations #3

“Our real body is not just what is inside the skin, but includes our whole total external environment. The real, deep down you is the whole universe. And that vast thing that you see far off, far off, far off […], one day you’ll go and wake up and say, ‘Why, that’s me!’” – Alan Watts

1280×1280 mp4, no audio, 10s seamless loop;

Available as a NFT at https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/211013