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Discovering a Hidden Treasure

If we experience and enjoy a work of art through the free play of emotion, the distance between the artist and the outside world can be reduced to the lowest common denominator for this moment of perception. That this can also function across great stretches of time is amazing yet entirely possible. 

The limits of time

The over 30,000 year old drawings on the walls of the cave at Chauvet in the south of France that were discovered about 25 years ago and thankfully revealed to us by Werner Herzog in his documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams awaken in spectators a thrilling feeling of immediacy despite the huge gulf of time that separates us from the moment of their creation. It’s as though we were pitched at a dizzying height traversing huge gorges of time on a spiritual rope bridge, as though the limits of time were abolished in the moment of viewing. 

A rare freedom

These prehistoric wall paintingss stand for themselves. In this sense they are similar to OUBEYs art and are also related to it in another sense in a highly individual way. They are hidden treasures that have remained untouched and unseen for a certain period of time. Their existence in concealment confers on them a freedom of a kind that can scarcely be found today. This freedom is implicit in them and transfers to us when we view them. We can discover them, enjoy them and let them work on us in a rare kind of pure immediacy.

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Where are we human beings heading to? Some reflections on the OUBEY Symposium in San Francisco

As human consciousness develops, which direction is it taking? When and how will artificial intelligence became a genuine strong factor with a real impact on our lives on this planet? Will we be able to prolong our life span indefinitely by ‘hacking’ into the biological code – and what would be the consequences? Is there such a thing as extraterrestrial intelligence and if there is, what – if anything – would it find interesting in our human race? What shape will the cosmos take in the next ten billion years?
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UNSER GEHIRN IST KEINE PERFEKTE MASCHINE UND DAS IST AUCH GUT SO

Vor einigen Wochen habe ich mir zum ersten Mal die Talkrunde von Markus Lanz im Fernsehen angeschaut und ich war positiv überrascht. Nicht nur, weil Lanz in meinen Augen ein guter und kritischer Gastgeber war, sondern vor allem auch weil er mit dem Neurowissenschaftler Henning Beck einen Gast in der Runde hatte, der auf unterhaltsame Weise seine interessanten Erkenntnisse über die Funktionsweise unseres menschlichen Gehirns vorstellte.
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The inquisitive exploratory spirit: OUBEY @ Leonardo

Four months ago the OUBEY Digital Discovery Show had its brilliant world premiere at the 5thAnniversary Happening of OUBEY MINDKISS at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. Now it will be featuring at the prestigious Leonardo Awards on 14 September in Bonn.

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