Higher States of Consciousness

Multidimensionality and multiplicity are at the core of the practice of a new generation of artists that have grown up with the internet. For these young artists, whose lives and education situates them globally, other spatio-temporal arrangements beyond the linear time of progress are not only possible but already in existence. The world transformed into an ever-expanding network structure of production and distribution of information is paralleled by overlapping dimensions and timeframes of possibility. The limitless speed and growth of a world-as-information represented by the aggregation and concatenation of bits feels incommensurable with the experience of a deeper, immanently connected sense of joy, intimacy and hapiticality they locate in our digital realities. This collection shows perspectives from a future after post-internet, where spirituality, ritual, and connectedness are not disappearing functions in a world-as-information, but embodied, accountable and conscious manifestations that already exist and can thrive online. As such, the artists introduce complex questions of what it means to relate to the internet differently, fostering possibilities and potential in an otherwise ubiquitous matrix of hopelessness. In higher states of consciousness, the works speak of worlds where identity is multifarious, politics are polyvocal and poetics drive connections between information, human and machine.