Aided by machine intelligence with computational speeds measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second and software capable of analyzing petabytes of significant data, we are codifying and digitizing the entire resource of human knowledge.
We use our very curiosity and creativity to invent novel ways to map the myriad connections existing within these matrices of information. Vast interconnected databases reveal deep relationships between previously disparate disciplines, such as biology, astronomy, physics, and neuroscience.
Our powerful technological tools of art are used to create imaginary virtual worlds for diversion and the utterly real worlds of military combat and computer-assisted brain surgery. In this way, we see the correspondences between the real and the virtual, and we come to better understand the relationship between art and life. It is the same as the relationship between culture and nature. They mirror each other. This mirroring is our own, species-specific mental experience, the human mind in the world as experienced by human beings.
Advances in our ability to create intricately detailed visual images allow us to see farther, deeper, and more precisely. When we can actually see complex physical processes at both microscopic and macroscopic scales, we can conceive of new mathematical relationships and physical processes, which yield novel ways to forge new materials, inventions, and world views.
We bring our cultural knowledge and resources to the task of symbolically representing nature and our place within it. This mirroring of the world and natural processes by technology and its transformation into an aesthetically significant experience is the nexus of science and art. It is our culture. And now we are programming it into supercomputers. Supercomputing power heralds a new age of enlightenment, in which science, technology, and art comingle.
Spurred on by networked media and the urgency of mass culture, our words, images, and narratives evolve, advancing global repositories of cultural memes. Harnessed by economic and political realities, their power to change us is magnified by rapid technological advance. There is vast potential for good here. Exponential increase in intelligence holds the promise of the rapid evolution of better cultural memes, better minds…a better world.
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First Image: 00000011 – Tullio – 2013
Second Image: 00000010 – Tullio – ink drawing – 2013
How long does it take you to finish a body of work such as the ones on this page?
Hi Tami. I work on many pieces at once, some things take a day, some a week, some a month. It’s a multimedia process, drawing, painting, amnd digital work.
It is refreshing to see this perspective on the possibilities of the recent advances of media, especially the internet. So many focus on the negatives of the internet, and I agree there are some, but truly it has great potential for good influences to reach mass numbers, to educate, enlighten, and unify. Your poetic essay made me think of other eras in time where great change occurred, which at the time was viewed as controversial and negative, but looking back no one would think so.
Thanks, Cynthia. Good words. We are responsible for the technology we create.
I wonder when the mirror will allow us to see the veil between us and reality…if there is, indeed, such a thing as reality.
Until further notice, Susan, I think we can say that this is it.
I find this piece very attractive using different colors to me it seem to be reaching every one worldwide. Some people believe that the internet is not productive but infact you can reach people worldwide by using the web.
the first image to me is very cool. i love the color schemes it has and makes me think of a nice day in the spring or summer. it is fascinating how much work and time must go into the drawings.
The first image really attracted me to this, I first thought it moved and then while I kept looking at it, the swirl seemed to glow brighter and brighter to the point where I had too look away. Maybe that was the intent of it to capture that much attention but it looks awesome.
I feel like this piece reflects the words appropriately. It strikes me as a collaboration of fingerprints; human interaction digitalized.