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"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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
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.
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.
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.
NFT: 2020
The glitched version of the personalized avatar, ubiquitously present, ambiguously in purpose and intention
Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
Sedation title inverted in white and black text. Rotating eternally.
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.
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.
Black vertical walls - serving as backdrops for select captures between the relationship of man and digital.
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.
IMG_202000110_234809-2test NFT:2020
"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.
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.
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.