We are Square

/// We today are the world and the nature we created by integrating into the space around us. We are the forest, the fields, the sky above. At the same time, we are the servers, the computing power, and the electricity that feeds them, the signals traveling through the air into cloud storage and beyond, into space. We are the technologies through which our “we” and our identity exist. The environment we create feeds again on electricity from wind turbines, solar panels, from photons arriving to us from space. We are the digital world repeating the rhythms of nature. We are the forest and the stone, the raw materials and hydrocarbons dug from the earth, burned in furnaces, turning turbines and giving power so that processors can endlessly run bits and information, again and again representing us. We are everywhere because we are connected to nature, to space, to the universe. We see ourselves both in the world around us and in the world created by humans — in technology, factories, microchips, the digital space and social networks where we continue to realize ourselves. Even this digital world is inspired by nature and relies on its resources. Without the world around us there would be no us. Without the world around us there would be no technology. We are the connection. Connection with the world and the universe. ------------------------------------------------------ Inspired by Kazimir Malevich's manifest "I see the Earth as small as a fly in a web. A web of numbers has engulfed it; take the numbers and expand them. A network of the web, as other planets and stars are already flying To the rescue of Earth—know this and do not fear them. Numbers are not understood, even though they are made of numbers. In numbers lies Your salvation—a number, a surgical knife cutting the body. Numbers and color—new worlds of material currents. Numbers and color—finer, more flexible than the spirit. Color, numbers, and sound rule the world." _frame In modern quantum physics and relativity theory, there exists the idea of the "block universe": past, present, and future all exist simultaneously, and the flow of time is not a physical process, but rather an effect produced by consciousness/perception. In other words, nothing is actually “flowing”; we are simply “sliding” through different slices of a single, unified, four-dimensional spacetime block. In this video work, I used parabolic editing, creating a loop of repetitions. The piece consists of three acts that “charge up and accelerate” within the visual narrative. These are my reflections on us — as humans, as a community, and as part of nature and the world. What is happening feels incredible and magical. I am fascinated by the world when seen through the lens of quantum physics, and I am always curious to try to imagine it. Thanks for the music to V. Novik.