MIND UPLOAD
Mind Upload is the collective of 3 artworks that tells a story about us.
Virtual Nostalgia, Humanly and Preternatural Reality are the 3 representations of our tecnology preceptions in 3 different realms: subcouncious, entity and environment.
Virtual Nostalgia, Humanly and Preternatural Reality are the 3 representations of our tecnology preceptions in 3 different realms: subcouncious, entity and environment.
Virtual Nostalgia
subcouncious
Our minds as a child are a power source for unlimited existences:
What am I?
Who am I?
Where am I?
As children, we reinvent ourselves and adapt our consciousness to our desire: a child can have a Pokémon as a best friend, as long as they believe it's real. What power does that fantasy alone has? It's nonsense to a person who can't see this imaginary friend, but it not a less valid reality. What gave our eyes the supremacy power to say what's real and what's not?
"Virtual Nostalgia" programs the mind and idealizes a technological immersive future where we can have our own realities in our full possession. Just like a child can see their Pokémon friend, we can see ours too. It's not there, but it is. The mind plays the most magical tricks on us, and we must take that to our own pleasure. Technology is here to help reprogram the natural algorithm of the mind.
"Virtual Nostalgia" reprograms the mind to something idealistic.
What am I? Whatever you please.
Who am I? Whoever you please.
Where am I? Wherever you want to be.
It's up to us now. We can all be delusionally happy again.
HUMANLY
entity
It's not necessary to run to the future to look at ourselves and see that we aren't entirely human. Our bodies are already sustained with the help of nanomedicine, prosthesis, contact lenses, hearing aids, implanted defibrillators, pacemakers and steroids to name a few. We are enhancing our physical, intellectual and psychological capacities at an astronomical pace. But does this morphological freedom that we have puts our social-economic balance in danger? When money can buy appearance, a globalized upper class group emerges defining what it means to be desirable. The psychological control over one's external identity is dictated and modified to fit in the dominant structure and everything else is subconsciously labeled as undesirable. To add, when money can buy intelligence, the gap between rich and poor widens alarmingly. In a possible and maybe probable scenario, a society can be split into the humans who have computer-like minds and bodies and inferior humans who don't have enhancements. What does this mean to Humankind? Do we split into two different species, where one is dominant in every way possible over the other? And what effect does transhumanism have in our life-span? If we reach immortality how do we select the humans existing? Because there's a price tag in each and every single one of these transhumanistics attributes, is it ideal to live in a reality that money gives access to life itself?
The fear of aging and dying, the ambition for entity perfection, the need to fit in a globalized aesthetics is used as a stimulant to push technology as far as it can and can't go. It's inevitable: machines are being built to become more and more human-like, and we, humans, are being tempted to become more and more mechanical. When do we lose our human identity?
"Humanly" demands us to look at ourselves in our true form: an anthropomorphic complex machine.
Preternatural Reality
environment
Not so far into the past, a phone was an impossible concept. In today's day and age a phone, a computer or any other digital or technological device is the core to many jobs, entertainment, health, communication and education. AR and VR appeared suddenly in our daily lives and the desire to immerse ourselves in those virtual realities are accompanying the growth of those technological innovations. It's legitimate to think that the path we're following it's leading us to a simulated conscious reality.
Rather than questioning if we don't already live in a simulated reality without being aware of it, "Preternatural Reality" considers an existence where we know we are in a virtual world and still consider ourselves just as human as before. The devotion to recreate human psyche in artificial intelligence is large and in charge, and the ambition to progress and experiment will presumably get us there. Once our minds can exist in a digital simulation, our bodies automatically can exist too.
If we can exist as a whole in a certain reality, regardless its nature, then aren't we real and consequently isn't that reality authentic? Can there be multiple realities simultaneously? If so, can we live in more than one reality at once? In other words, can we have more than one conscious?
"Preternatural Reality" is the acceptance of oneself as a living being in a non-living world.
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