Encounters at the end of the world

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD NEAR THE CATHOLIC CHAPEL AT THE ARGENTINA BELGRANO II BASE WITH ALL THE EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES THAT FOLLOW

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Philosophers often appeal to fictional lands in order to illustrate their concepts. Consider Plato with his Atlantis (Critius, Timaeus), and El Dorado (e.g., Voltaire), and Hyperborea (e.g., Nietzsche).

Being a mental experiment or an example akin to a riddle, stories about these lands have become objects of scientific speculation almost as soon as they appear. It is fascinating to look for a land that, according to many sources, existed, even if one has to look tens of thousands of kilometers south of Attica and find Atlantis on white maps of Antarctica.

In the project, Atlantis is returned its mental status through the search for its coordinates in virtual space. Putting it in a scene that outwardly resembles Antarctica makes its exploration challenging, but this does not frighten the heroes of the project who have come to these lands: the Philosopher, the Scientist, the Artist, the Director and you. What are they (you, us?) looking for in Atlantis, which mimicry the Antarctica? What does the Philosopher, tired enough of questions of epistemology and honest enough to answer unambiguously to the question of values, feel? What will the Scientist do when he finds his cause for the origin of life on Earth? Why does the Artist want to tear herself to pieces and become the incorporeal corporeality of these lands? Why does the Director so fervently compare the experience of subglacial exploration to the experience of entering the temple? What do you want from this space and these people?

CHARACTERS &//AS VR SPACES

Does virtual reality dream of itself? Do we dream or express and articulate our dreams in virtual reality? It remains to be seen.

Wernor Herzog

Reality contains many realities, and those realities are real. Or more mundanely: the cosmos (everything that exists) contains many worlds (physical and virtual spaces), and the objects in those worlds are real. Now we just need to unpack real.

David J. Chalmers

PHILOSOPHER

How does epistemological exploration of virtuality lead to its political comprehension?

ARTIST

How can a body and a voice become a space in virtual reality?

SCIENTIST

What is the primary element of virtual world? What capabilities and secrets does it contain?

DIRECTOR

What kind of culture does virtuality transmit?

you ask him that, he replies "oh boy"; his questions are fundamental, you get a little dizzy from their importance, seriously, indeed, the ontology of virtual and extended realities is more complicated than Parmenides' puzzle.
and you're not bored with him, you're not bored at all with him, he talks so much and nicely about contemporary culture (The Matrix, Meinkraft, Le Guin, even the latest Ryan Reynolds's movie, you love everything he talks about, when he talks about what is, what is learned and what makes sense) and yet what is he looking for here? is his map white and how apolitical can it be?

she wants to become love, she wants to become a landscape, an endless love, an infinite landscape
the boundaries of her body - how can she extend them to the virtuality of these lands and keep her body corporeal?

PHILOSOPHER

ARTIST

WELCOME TO ATLANTIS

he hates film criticism; he says that nothing in his films represents anything but what it represents.
you don't believe him - you see how strong the Catholic imagery is in his works, and when you dive under the ice of Antarctica together, he compares this experience to a religious experience.
Why is he here? Why is he quoting the Incas when he says "perseverance is where the gods dwell"?

he's unsociable, he speaks so little that you can't understand what language it is, and who are "the black pit”, “the carven rim”, “the proto-shoggoths”, “the windowless solids with five dimensions”, “the nameless cylinder”, “the elder pharos”, “Yog-Sothoth”, “the primal white jelly”, “the colour out of space”, “the wings”, “the eyes in darkness”, “the moon-ladder”, “the original, the eternal, the undying”.
you know that what he's looking for is bigger than life itself because it is its very source. A rare kind of foraminifera somewhere deep beneath the Antarctic ice.

DIRECTOR

SCIENTIST

WELCOME TO ATLANTIS

COME AS YOU ARE TO EXPLORE THE VIRTUAL ATLANTIS

DARIA IVANS :: xeno-media artist from St Petersburg