Cybershaman submits gonzo consciousness movie to 2008 Cannes Film Festival
Schwann
Current mood: insubordinate
O moderators of media, O makers-of-cults, O
compressors of nostalgia, O renderers of
neural text, O transferers of holographic
memory,
This post serves to notify you that
Cognition Factor, a full-length feature,
has escaped the confines of my hard
drive and studio and is now on its way
to the Cannes Film Festival to be judged.
5 years in the making, and with some of the
source foootage more than 10 years old, this
is not a moment too soon because it was 15
years ago that I started believing that usenet
and email had bound humanity together in some
inexplicable way; all of us, from the solitary
surfers of fractal reality, to the Monster
Truck Dystopians believing in everlasting
cheap oil, and life as it was.
It was at that time that I
envisioned/created/activated a meme called
'webtrance', never realising that I would
later see it as an audio-visual construct.
Much later.
The last five years has been a combat zone.
The front line. But suddenly, it's finished.
The gruelling 18 hour days, the seemingly
endless preparations and explanations have all
come down to the awesome simplicity of the
movie explaining itself to me in the middle of
the night.
The house is quiet, everyone is asleep, and
I've just realised that Cognition Factor is
just 'webtrance' by another name. How cool is
that?
Cognition Factor seeks to illustrates that we
can not prevent change, but we can stop
accepting what is wrong, and it may also send
a clear message to smart people that they are
not alone in understanding that without mental
stimulation, western media and art is doomed
to boredom.
Meantime, back in the future, any good meme
knows that things are always changing, even in
the past, so here's what it looked like to me,
15 years ago, before I owned a movie camera.
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Discussions on the Webtrance Memetic Effect :
Usenet July 1995
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:alt.webtrance Charter:
"the basic concept of the Webtrance meme
involves netizens from all over the world
simultaneously focusing into a mass computer
generated trance; thus participating in
humanity's digital reincarnation. If critical
mass is reached, maybe our entire species will
be bumped up in brain potential through a
change in our morphogenetic field, and then it
won't matter if you're logged on or not.
To me, it feels like this has already begun."
- Schwann Cybershaman -
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[[http://headspace-studios.com|Cognition
Factor's main page]]
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btrance Meme]]