postcards from cyberspace! ex_mortal_ solo exhibition at Glitch Art Gallery

jonCates
5 min readApr 27
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Utopia, an island
Utopic, a technology
a real dream of an artificial place.
artificial, because we know it is impossible.
a simulation.
in our imagination(s).
&& yet Utopia is also real, actually occurring inside us, because the Utopic dream is happening inside us, in our bodies. we are dreaming our true dreams through ex_mortal_’s FALSE_VISTAS, NULL_VISTAS, NULLSCAPES, _SCANRISE_s, and _VORTEX_DREAMS_!

ex_mortal_’s art studio

ideals
idyllic
the synthetic sunrise synthesized,

processed,

or
made real,
not false,

because we came into view
as you can see, through to:

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imagine a place that does not yet exist.

imagine a place that does not

ex_ ist

imagine a place

imagine.

.

dream.

dream a place

ex_ ist

dream a place that does not

dream a place that does not yet exist.

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did you know Utopia was an island? the prototype of the dream is the novel wit the same name: Utopia. more correctly in the original Latin, the language in which the novel was written, the title reads: Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia (“A little, true book, not less beneficial than enjoyable, about how things should be in a state…

jonCates

School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Film, Video, New Media and Animation dept; Art History, Theory and Criticism dept.