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A MESSAGE FROM THE NEAR FUTURE
In a future not far from your time, a specter is haunting the world. A powerful breed of techno-visual entities dominate humans, controlling the ways we live, communicate, and see ourselves. Complex clusters of visual//sound//textual technological systems keep us trapped in an ever morphing reality: the whole of humanity in perennial hypnosis: The Matrix.
But YOU can change this story that started long ago...
I. THE IMAGE
Images-technology-human are the actors of an eons-long drama. By their very nature, humans, like other species, manifested the technologies that allowed them to survive and assert their place among other living beings, a technological dance of life.
Humans, unlike other species, had a unique gift: the ability to imagine. And with the aid of Technology, they went beyond: the also manifested their dreams. Mysteries manifested: the IMAGE.For a longest time humans led with powerful imagination, manifesting ever more complex tools to build a universe of images in which they lived, and by which they were themselves transformed. A complex co-evolution.
Proudly, humans claimed images as their creation: 'art'; and relegated technology to the place of 'tools', mere instruments to their goals. Art and Machines: testaments of Humanity's mastery.
II. THE TECHNICAL IMAGE
Change ensued. Humans acknowledged a profound transformation, proclaiming an Industrial Revolution as their own triumph, blind to the deepest nature of the change: the unveling of the techno-imagination.
Technology had taken the lead. It took 200 years for the first realizations: looking around, humans found themselves lost in a universe they could no longer recognize. In awe, a few visionaries at last proclaimed:
"the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace"
A profusion of machines revealed the new sensibility, a new sensibility for a new form beauty: the growing dominance of the Technological Imagination. And there was no stopping it.
In a first assertion of awareness of its true power, Technology proclaimed:
"I will explain, in a new way, the world unknown to you"
And so it was, the birth of the film. Bringing images into motion, a mirror world reflecting our pains and glories, the whole drama of the human condition, the love and sorrows of the Family of Men...
"in constant movement" "falling and rising with the falling and rising bodies"
... so was the coming of age of the Technical Images.
A whole new world of art, new mediums, dreamworlds was inaugurated. New visionaries celebrated the grand scales of these new visions,
"free forever from human immobility..."; "coordinating any and all points in the Universe..."
Men, now heralds of the Kino Eye, The Mechanical Eye. Mere Humans with Movie Cameras. Asserting, 24 times a second, their own demise.
III- THE DIGITAL INTERFACE
A century after, finally autonomous; free at last from human dependency; free at last from the falling and rising bodies- a new image.
The new Digital Revolution, uncontested technological, has new heralds: the digital interface (DI) is the uber image, a composite of visuals, sound, written images coalescing in fluid re-arrangements, a complex system of information; a highly dense language. Complex systems to which humans are but passive contributors, has, in few decades, transformed us beyond our own wildest dreams.
The long-standing pact was gone and Digital Interface is testament to the final dominance of the Technological Imagination. Human imagination finally defeated: Art is no more.
Only YOU can change this
In you present, our power is not gone, there is still time to infuse poetry into the Digital Interface, to restore the balance between human and technological imaginations, a creative harmony that will dispel the Matrix-Dream.
It is up to you to build OTHER INTERFACES, other worlds, dimensions that will allow us, here in the Future, to thrive.
Remember, this is also YOUR future and of the ones you love...
WHAT WORLDS WILL YOU BUILD? .