Matias Brunacci
“Virtualshamanism: Towards an alternative reality of digital consciousness” is an interactive virtual reality experience created by Matias Brunacci, based on modern concepts like technoshamanism, ancestral-future and neo-paganism, among others.
The Virtualshamanism operates between two worlds, the modern one, mental and scientific, and the ancestral one, intuitive and shamanic, generating an approach between both sides through its role as a nexus and peacemaker, placing itself as a powerful mediator between these two dual forces.
In this work the artistic event is revealed from the inside outward, this characteristic suggests a way of interpretation where the user works as the core of the work, becoming a means of resonance, there where the piece vibrates by itself, echoing by its own presence.
A virtualshaman works with audiovisual representations which are transformed into maps that will serve as a guide to decipher and manifest the techno-spiritual and cyber-pagan problematic of this era.
According to Terence McKenna there is no distinction between entheogens and computers, both parts represent for him an extension of the human capabilities which function as prostheses, that is, as devices to extend the mind and the perceptual functions of the human being, calculating and simulating complicated processes in order to achieve new answers and knowledge.
In a Virtualshamanic work the confrontation between imagination and hallucination is diluted by the use of VR technology as a tool for the research of an alternative digital reality of consciousness.
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