Electronic workshops in computing
July 1, 2021
Carl Smith, Kenneth Shinozuka, Alex Zhao et al.
3 citations
The Museum of Consciousness presents a collection of short audio samples designed by artists and consciousness explorers to cultivate expansive states of consciousness. The samples include mindfulness meditations, placebo highs, sound journeys, and novel introspection methods. Visitors rate each sample using Raph Milliere's 6D model of self-consciousness, which was inspired by psychedelics and meditation, and play a game guessing the curators' pre-assigned ratings. Feedback from visitors is incorporated into a regenerative system that shapes future exhibits.
Electronic workshops in computing
January 1, 2025
Daniel Mirante, Carl Smith
Cyberdelics use immersive media like virtual reality and generative AI to create experiences similar to those induced by psychedelics or spiritual practices. This work presents a conceptual design model that combines epistemic expansion, emotional resonance, facilitating conditions, and integration aftereffects, drawing on historical rituals and transpersonal psychology. It emphasizes ethical principles such as preparation, consent, and support to ensure safe and meaningful encounters. The argument advocates for thoughtful stewardship of this technology, which offers opportunities for personal growth but requires careful handling.
Electronic workshops in computing
January 1, 2024
Ana Bandeira
Online posting can be understood as a machinic beyond in which networks amplify the proliferating potential of memetic egregores—collective thought-forms. Posting like a machine means relinquishing a monolithic identity to build multiple new ones, as if trained by the collective intelligence of online rings through swarms of collective posting. This practice questions traditional copyright frameworks while celebrating appropriation, spontaneous collaboration, post-authorship, and performative identity. Encapsulating concerns such as extinction, love, and collapse, these communing rituals embody the noosphere—a collective consciousness or interconnected network of minds. Network spirituality thus proposes new modes of being within emerging conditions of planetary existence.