Simultaneous Opposites #60: Breathing for Metaphors
Generating this piece was a way to refocus on my breathing, and the breathing of the Simultaneous Opposites Engine. This breathing, the duration and physicality of which is itself a focus of this video, is also of course a metaphor, one that is accepted through our implicit empathy for all objects. In an inversion: these metaphors are the intentions of Man, they are how we understand the meaning of the world, and how we know “what it’s like outside”. What is Metta for?
Authors:
- Robert Edgar
Robert Edgar creates and employs software engines to examine mediated artifacts forged at his zone of proximal development. Robert’s computer-based art engines include Simultaneous Opposites (2008 – present), The Duchamp Examinations (2006), Memory Theatre Two (2003), Sand, or How Computers Imagine Truth in Cinema (1994), Living Cinema (1988), and Memory Theatre One (1985). Robert holds an MFA from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. He grew up in Cocoa Beach, Florida during the birth of the NASA Space Program (1958-1970). Robert is Sr. Instructional Designer at Stanford University.
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