presents
N E O C O M M E D I A
An immersive adaptation of Dante's Divine Comedy exploring the modern deity of Information.
| ::: i n f e r n o (coming soon) raw, unfiltered, incomprehensible data; bits and bytes traveling through networks; the chaos of turning on all the appliances in your house simultaneously; the inability to synthesize information from this data collage; |
| ::: p u r g a t o r y (coming soon) misprocessed information; disinformation; the bureaucratic labyrinth; the phone system that imprisons the caller in agonizing loops; the propaganda machine of modern advertising; the political manipulation of knowledge; |
| ::: p a r a d i s e A large-scale interactive artwork at the intersection of Art & Technology now showing Gallery M3 Artists' Community Building 300 Summer Street, Boston October 18th to November 30th, 2002 Paradise can be viewed by making an appointment via email paradise@ikatun.com or telephone 617.501.6538 |
     
 
 
 
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| iKatun’s Paradise is based on Dante’s Paradise from the Divine Comedy, however, this Paradise is not about perfect morality but about perfect information. iKatun’s Paradise alludes to instant availability and perfect knowledge; a single data point of infinite density; the faultless model of information to which all media systems aspire; the space where entropy does not exist. press release for Boston Center for the Arts (pdf) press release for Gallery M3 (pdf) |