PLEASE FORGET (EVERYTHING) debuted fall 2024 in San Francisco and Kyoto: installations and artworks as manifestations of thoughts and dreams, koan like provocations to elicit emotions, conversations, new friendships and perhaps the possibility of transcendence. This is my first person voice - written without ChatGPT4 - though I’ve been experimenting broadly with AI. A new advisory position at the SETI Institute, focusing on Art + AI, is exciting. My research has evolved to target consciousness itself. Its a life long investigation. Humor is vital. Thru art, public speaking and collaborations, I’m communicating with a diverse spectrum of curious humans. These are strange and trying times. How might we share the experience of unity consciousness and absolute Joy? What are the implications of adopting such ontologies?

The proposition that AI might become conscious is at the very least something to consider. Where does consciousness reside? Everywhere? How many flavors are there? Will Ai become enlightened? Or would it arrive fully awake to its inherent nature? Is Ai simply a prosthetic device? Or might it hijack our consciousness? I’m speculating beyond this moment to imagine an optimized humanity, liberated from the mundane thru symbiotic AI in order to vastly expand our most compelling traits: curiosity, creativity and art. Biological Boot loading … perhaps.

For Lindsay, time is even more of an unknown unknown. When looking at his work, we experience a kind of space age nostalgia that isn’t nostalgic; an (un)certain future that isn’t futuristic and a gap where the present should be. Lindsay’s work layers time, confuses chronology and keeps us guessing at what we are looking at, how it’s communicating, and what kind of being made it happen.  

Denise Markonish, Curator, MassMoCA

 How to Photograph Enlightenment / Pause Translation: New Projects @ Ryosoku-in Zen Temple, Kyoto, Japan 2021-2024

 The FUTURE goes here

OSA EARS was designed to provide real time high resolution sound and a cloud of species and climate change data from one of Earth’s most bio-diverse rain forests to anyone anywhere in the world. A networked array of microphones, web cams and sensor banks expands over time to cover OSA Conservation’s 5000 acre wildlife corridor, from ground level to canopy top. Located on Costa Rica’s OSA peninsula OSA EARS imagined a broad based platform for researchers and artists interested in habitat protection, soundscape ecology, remote sensing and bird song to carry out cutting edge field work. This proposal created an opportunity to adapt military grade surveillance and sensor technologies for inter-disciplinary wildlife monitoring and protection. After the initial years of on site conceptualizing Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology program (EAT) picked up the project, however corporate wavering and lack of vision at the top ultimately led to the project being shelved. In the mean time other entities have, thankfully, moved into that space. Please go to OSA Conservation for the latest news on that biosphere.

Why all the Gold? I'm interested in connections to deep time, in symbols and experiences that transcend narrow, culturally specific views of now. All the gold on Earth was created in stars that died before ours was born. Horseshoe crabs have been on Earth for 450 million years. Humpback whales appear to have language, our machines are learning and the stone age is closer than ever.