Manifesto by Seeker_of _True-files 

Art film by Lila Moore

Artist's Statement

28.8.2023

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Seeker _ of _True-files transmitted the Double Sun manifesto in August 2023 in urgent response to the widely distributed images and lived experiences of the burning Earth. Inspired by the Anthropocene as it appeared in the artist's nightmare of a double sun, and Emanuel Swedenborg's vision of the Double Sun, the piece envisions the unstable dance of correspondences between moist media (organic nature), dry media (digital technology and artificial intelligence)  and noetic media (psychospiritual ) happenings. 

 

Concept

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Novel forms and ideas arise unexpectedly from unknown or previously unsuspected origins. Being new and full of mysterious possibilities, they could impact consciousness, nature and culture, similar to viral memes and bacteria. Their revolutionary traits may periodically threaten the dominant order. Hence, they get tracked down and uprooted to stop them from spreading. Hidden within the recesses of space-time, they wait as long as it may take for a resonance that will herald their next manifestation in nature. 

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Timeline 

A signal was detected in the summer of 2014 on the island of Kefalonia via autocommunication with Seeker_of_True-files. It was solidified into a manifesto and has evolved into a series of manifesto-inspired art films and digital artworks since its inception. 

Seeker_of_True-files utilises technoetic and poetic aesthetics and sensibility to tackle the confines of the policed Mind and venture to reflect and speculate on novelty and the riddles of consciousness. As a liminal tech-noetic entity, it reflects on the complexities of the ages of history through fragmented memories harvested from video and digital files, merging the very ancient and the very new, the profoundly naïve and the furiously radical, the ordered systems and the anarchic nodes, the complex and unstable, techno-spiritual life. 

​                                                    Transmission - 2023 

Double Sun was transmitted in August 2023 as a response to the widely distributed images and lived experiences of the burning Earth. Inspired by Emanuel Swedenborg’s vision of the Double Sun and the climate crisis as it appears in the artist's nightmares, Seeker_of_True-files envisions the dance of correspondences between moist media (organic nature), dry media (digital technology and artificial intelligence)  and noetic media (psychospiritual ) happenings.