Luma
Video installation, Art Rotterdam 2021Where do we live our digital lives? On the network, in the wires, plugs and sockets, all connected to processors. The abstract microarchitecture that hosts the programs of our digital existence. Processes too small for our senses, too abstract for our biological minds. The mystical essence that Mondriaan found in his squares and rectangles, where all parts affect each other, trapped in an infrastructure of smallness. Omnipresent like the water our bodies are made of.
We spend more and more time immersed in the audio-visual spectacle of its workings. Our gazes turned away from the infinite mystery of nature, hoping for solace and a confirmation of our being. Will we find it when we shed our bodies and live on as electrons in the microarchitecture that, by now, doesn’t need us humans as architects?
Will we ‘...birth an alchemical singularity—a spiritual, universe-taming mind born from techno-shamanic ecstasy’?, as Terrence McKenna put it.
Jeroen Koolhaas 2021