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Moist media
The term moist media was coined by Roy Ascott to signal the emergent confluence in media art of (wet) biological processes and (dry) computational systems. Rather than “digital media”, the “moist media” represents where art is now: representing a multiplicity of media, configured and manipulated in an infinite number of ways by distributed authorship, publication, and distribution. Moist represents a convergence of silicon, dry computational systems and wet biological processes, tremendously extending the sensorium of the self.
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NOW seeks to offer a synthesis of today's principal debates about the latest generation technologies, accepting that we are already in a cybersphere undergoing a phase of expansion, in which the speed of change is the only constant, together with the ignorance, fascination or confusion of many citizens.
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The dry world of computational virtuality and the wet world of biological systems are converging to produce a new substrate for creative work, moistmedia, consisting of bits, atoms, neurons, and genes. There is also a convergence of three VRs
- Virtual Reality (interactive digital technology): elematic, immersive.
- Validated Reality (reactive mechanical technology): prosaic, Newtonian.
- Vegetal Reality (psychoactive plant technology): entheogenic, spiritual.
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Moistmedia is transformative media; moist systems are the agencies of change. Western art has been through what its many theorists and commentators have chosen to see as an extended period of materialism, attaching no significance to the spiritual ambitions of its featured artists, and ignoring the everyday intuitions and psychic sensibilities of those hundreds of thousands of artists who have found no place in the history books. Art in reality has always been a spiritual exercise no matter what gloss prevailing political attitudes or cultural ideologies have forced upon it. The role of technology, virtual, validated and vegetal, is to provide the tools and media — moistmedia — by which these spiritual and cultural ambitions can be realised
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Moist Mind
Is technoetic multiconsciousnessis where dry pixels and wet molecules convergeis digitally dry, biologically wet, and spiritually numinouscombines Virtual Reality with Vegetal Realitycomprises bits, atoms, neurons, and genesIs interactive and psychoactiveembraces digital identity and biological beingerodes the boundary between hardware and wetwareis tele-biotic, neuro-constructive, nano-roboticis where engineering embraces ontologyIs bio-telematic and psi-berneticis at the edge of the Net
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“Divisions between academic areas of study, once rigidly fixed, are gradually dissolving due to developments in science and cultural practice. This fusion has had a dramatic effect upon the scope of various disciplines. In particular, the profile of art has radically evolved in our present technological culture.”
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At the same time, as we seek to enable intelligence to flow into every part of our manmade environment,we recognise that Nature is no longer to be thought of as ‘over there’, to be viewed in the middle distance,benign or threatening as contingency dictates. It is no longer to be seen as victim ecology, fragile orfractious, according to our mode of mistreatment. Technology is providing us with the tools and insights tosee more deeply into its richness and fecundity, and above all to recognise its sentience, and to understandhow intelligence, indeed, consciousness, pervades its every living part. The mind of Gaia, set in deChardin’s noosphere, is becoming amplified and perhaps transformed by the technoetic effects of humanconnectivity, ubiquitous computing and other far reaching consequences of the Net.
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