Update/ScopeNY etc

I'm falling way behind on updating now...so I'll try to throw down the highlights of at least last Sunday before it turns into next month.

SO.Last Sunday - drove into NYC with my artist friend/spunky lesbian bodyguard Jane to catch ScopeNY at the Flatotel.
The familiar 'Benjamin' is at the counter (ok so WHY do I have strangest feeling that I had some sort of loooong relationship with him in a past life?what IS that? hard to explain...but energetically it always baffles me)..he insists we do not pay, gifts us catalogs. (karmic perk?)

So on to the art, we go to the top floor and work our way down. I loved the works of Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver which were video pieces presented in guilded frame dioramas embedded into the wall. They really gave me the feeling i was imagining the movements...since one expected this to be a still inside a picture frame. And of course the utopian themes within gardens and forests got me (since I'm so obsessed with trying to express something specific and deep that feels tied to this). One might then also understand why the photographs of Ruud Van Empel mesmerized me. The fourth one in particular. The holographic feel, the virtual blurs juxtaposed with hyperrealistic details...so eerie and mesmerizing.
This is on its way super quickly, hyperreal 'agents'..(computer programs with exceptional humanoid design and behaviors)... And well, I hope we're all psychologically prepared for it somehow, though I don't know how we can be. It's bound to be Very odd when it hits the mainstream.See Virtual Humans if you're a doubter...

Ok, now where was I?
Ah. So then I went into a room...and I was already a bit overloaded and distracted so I wasn't quite processing well. I peered at some grid-like colorful encaustic works..and was making my way back out when a man stopped me to see if I had any questions. He seemed to hope I would, so still running on automatic I asked him about the process. Turns out he was the artist..and I was woken up a bit by what he told me...because it was Insanely labor intensive (and you all know I've got a thing for insanely labor intensive;)). And then looking at it more...I almost unconsciously mumbled that it reminded me of cellular automata....and his eyes lit up..and I mentioned the book A New Kind of Science by Wolfram and he said that was it Exactly! That he uses precisely that book for this series! And then it's like a dream again and suddenly we're talking about Emergence and Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order and networks and feedback, etc...and I can't believe how I almost walked right past this guy!(but didn't) Life.IS. Weird. So we promised to stay in touch (and we did through email and our websites...which opened up a bunch more common links/overlaps). So all that= new friend.:)Do check out the older images on his Website! Beautiful distribution patterns and particle exchanges ohMY!!!:)

And speaking of new friends, after Scope, Jane had to take off and I went to go meet up with a group of my pals at some crazy mexican restaurant (because margaritas make me happy)called Arriba, Arriba. There I also met up with a new internet friend, Will of coldbacon.com, who seems swell and who may not be a killer afterall. So that makes 3 in my very short list of F2F meetings with imaginary friends. BOy, it's like I'm getting social or something. (nah).Anyhoo, I had a great time with all..including Kenny,Cat, Bunny, The German Sisters (I love saying that for some reason),and the incredible Ms.A..though now it's all blurred to nice colors and tastes and laughter and soundbites of ninja stories (must've been the second margarita). Took the train back with Bunny and we had long overdue bonding time and heart2heart talk and I was reminded why I adopted this one as my bro.:) He really IS family, no question.
Ok I'm sure I'm leaving out tons but that's a long entry, isn't it?