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Dream Space
Ep 8: Es Devlin
Oct 16, 2023
Award-winning artist and set designer Es Devlin builds a world where humans share a language with endangered butterflies and birds. The podcast explores immersive sculptural experiences, the power of senses, and the fusion of intelligence between humans, other species, and algorithms. It also delves into aesthetics, perception, different forms of seeing, the redefinition of wealth in a world of abundance, and the potential shift in consciousness through quantum computing and AI.
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- In this dream space, artist and designer Es Devlin envisions a world where humans share a language with endangered butterflies and birds, emphasizing the interconnectedness and continuity of form in all living things.
- Devlin highlights the need to deconstruct the belief in individuality and separation, and envisions a world where humans recognize themselves as part of the biosphere and rewrite the story of interconnection and abundance, perceiving time as a spiraling and connected entity.
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A Dream Populated by More-Than-Human Species
In this dream space, artist and designer S Devlin envisions a world where the population is made up of endangered species. Inspired by her drawings of endangered London wildlife, Devlin describes dreaming about animals and feeling a sense of grief for not dreaming about them before. The dream world she creates includes over 60 types of moth, 120 types of butterfly, and 592 types of bird, with a shared language between humans and these species.
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