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Space Title

sedation_with_me

Within the World Titled sedation_with_me
Credited to Mauricio Orantes
Opening date April 23rd, 2021
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Statement:

"Sedation_with_me" solitary experience.
Mauricio Orantes
April 2021 - ∞

Sedation_with_me is a critique and captured experience on technological trust and dependency. In short form, experience curation by our own doing, manifests in avatar guides, manipulating fulfillment through artificial experiences, connections, creations. The dependency reinforced isolation become sedative environments, devoid of tactile experience and fulfillment.

This exhibit and digital experience were inspired during the global pandemic quarantine. 2020/21

Orantes curated the works in captured moment form, as a memory bank, inconsiderate of linear time. The pieces frame technological ubiquity and breakdown relationship between informing body and informed technology.

3D Environment Description:

"Sedation_with_me" solitary experience.
Mauricio Orantes
April 2021 to Infinity

The represented space is the facade of an apartment building in Brooklyn. A former jewish hospital now converted to residence. Captured during a night at the height of the COVID 19 pandemic. The space is a capsule of reflection and a warping vision of technology creating escapism and sedation. The portraits are glitched scenes, captured by a surveilling eye.

The experience throughout the space is designed to put the viewer in the space of surveillance in both 2nd and 3rd person. A ubiquitous figure will be present throughout. The manifested figure represents many things. The watcher is represented as a glitched being - he is avatar, specter, warden, entertainer, guide and sedater.

Artworks in this space:

Artwork title

exit_confirmation

Artwork Description:

Video : Glitched
Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2020

Re-entry at the door. The specter of a ubiquitous avatar, polices obstructs the entry and exit. Representing physical and psychological obstructions. There is exit. There is escape.

Artwork title

re-entry_wait

Artwork Description:

Video : Glitched
Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2020

Re-entry at the door. The specter of a ubiquitous avatar, polices the individual in psychological ways - breaking the human subject, challenging his agency. Dependency vs Independence. There is no exit. There is no escape.

Artwork title

beachhouse_

Artwork Description:

Video : Glitched
Greenport Village, NY
NFT: 2020

Sands Motel room shot from the beach in Greenport, Long Island. Captured at night. The lights glow in the night, alluding to a presence close by. The image lightly dithers and glitches in an infinite loop. The piece represents the ambiance of comfort and calm in a simulated space.

Artwork title

vue_sur_verre

Artwork Description:

Collab: Diana Jean Oliphant
Video : Glitched
Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2020

View of a dimly lit room - where the subject engages in hobby and distraction. Painting & pose with a manifestation of muse. The scene projects on a familiar surface, close but distant in both physical and emotional form.

Artwork title

moments-pf-joi

Artwork Description:

Video : Glitched
Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2020

View of a dimly lit motel room. The view of the scene, captures the human subject set in realization, the simulation is tiring and has lost its excitement. The scene alludes to something possibly intimate but synthetic in form.

Artwork title

life_on_mars

Artwork Description:

Collab: Tigerbay
Video : Glitched
Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2020

View of a dimly lit room - where the subject engages in hobby and distraction. Playing music engaged with a new form and shape of the avatar. It engages in a surrounding manner, close but distant in both physical and emotional form.

Artwork title

central

Artwork Description:

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
Artwork title

vie_ennui

Artwork Description:

Video : Glitched
Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2020

View of interior space, moment in time. The scene is a depiction of a space devoid of connection. The avatar is presented in a subdued role, before devolution in space and relationship.

Artwork title

captiv:ated-company

Artwork Description:

Video : Glitched
Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2020

View of interior space, a review in reflection. Human is in view of himself during the ennui. The scene is a depiction of a space devoid of connection. There is sedation and captivity.

Artwork title

summerwinds

Artwork Description:

Video : Glitched
Greenport Village, NY
NFT: 2020

Neon signage of the Sands Motel from Greenport, Long Island. Captured at night. The projection glitches and dims as in an infinite loop. The piece represents half of the room in a simulated calm space.

Artwork title

av_guid_1138

Artist name Mauricio Orantes
Artwork Description:

NFT: 2020

The glitched version of the personalized avatar, ubiquitously present, ambiguously in purpose and intention

Artwork title

112

Artwork Description:

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
Artwork title

sedation_noitades

Artwork Description:

Sedation title inverted in white and black text. Rotating eternally.

Artwork title

BuildingBlock

Artwork Description:

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
Artwork title

111

Artwork Description:

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
Artwork title

113

Artwork Description:

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
Artwork title

114

Artwork Description:

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
Artwork title

115

Artwork Description:

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.

Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
Artwork title

hollow.friend.

Artwork Description:

Video : Glitched
Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2020

Foe and Friend. View of industrial space, distant from the internal comfort - the subject is confronted by the specter. The scene depicts a change and sentiment with the human subject. There is a desire to escape and exercise agency.

Artwork title

homescreen

Artwork Description:

IMG_202000110_234809-2test

NFT:2020

Artwork title

title card

Artwork Description:

"Sedation_with_me" solitary experience. 
Mauricio Orantes
April 2021 - ∞ 

Sedation_with_me is a critique and captured experience on technological trust and dependency. In short form, experience curation by our own doing, manifests in avatar guides, manipulating fulfillment through artificial experiences, connections, creations. The dependency reinforced isolation become sedative environments, devoid of tactile experience and fulfillment. 

This exhibit and digital experience were inspired during the global pandemic quarantine. 2020/21 

Orantes curated the works in captured moment form, as a memory bank, inconsiderate of linear time. The pieces frame technological ubiquity and breakdown relationship between informing body and informed technology. 

Artwork title

[o]

Artwork Description:

Brooklyn, NY
NFT: 2021

A projection of a cityscape at night with a view from an elevated level. The frame covers the individual in ennui. In view from a first person perspective. The work is set in the center space to depict a focal point in the viewing experience.

Artwork title

Vale of Cashmere

Artwork Description:

Black and white picture, housed in an ornate gold trim frame. The frame itself is designed to represent a placeholder, a representation of analog decoration. 

Black and white picture, housed in an ornate gold trim frame. The frame itself is designed to represent a placeholder, a representation of analog decoration.