Fantastic Encyclopedia
The Glish Group Probes into Psychedelic #Essence at CODAME ART+TECH Festival (2024).
Fantastic encyclopedia, links magic to the modern digital era, using the fly agaric mushroom as a connector. Historically, the mushroom was seen as a gateway to magic through shamanic rituals. Its hallucinogenic effects make users perceive it in their environment.
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By positioning this ancient, natural psychedelic as a bridge between biological and technological realms, "Fantastic Encyclopedia" taps into the raw, elemental #Essence of human creativity and perception. Glish Group's visionary blend of mythology, anthropology, and agaric mushroom imagery crafted with AI distills the basic elements that shape our experiences of reality versus hallucination in today's digital age.
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Glish Group employs AI technology, Midjourney, for a mockumentary series that mimics an alternative biological encyclopedia centered on the fly agaric. Its psychedelic impacts resemble the viral flow of images online—striking and toxic, altering our perception of history and facts.
Embodying #Esssence, the multimedia artists of Glish Group will show their captivating "Fantastic Encyclopedia" at the 2024 CODAME ART+TECH Festival (2024). This expansive digital art project employs AI technology like Midjourney to reinterpret an encyclopedia through the lens of the hallucination-inducing fly agaric mushroom.
GLISH is an art association founded by Timofey Glinin and Anastasia Shubina, visual artists, working together from 2018. Currently based in San Francisco.
Anastasia Shubina is a multidisciplinary artist from St. Petersburg. She works with documentary and conceptual photography, film and video art. He has a philosophical education, as well as education in the field of cinema and photography. Her work has been presented at solo and group exhibitions, as well as at a number of film festivals in Europe, Asia, America and Australia. Finalist and winner of competitions. In her personal projects, she explores the themes of mythology, anthropology, and historical trauma.
Timofey Glinin is an artist and film director from St. Petersburg. He studied biology at Saint Petersburg State University and attended courses at the Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema, worked as a scientist, entrepreneur, and writer. His work has been presented at a number of international film festivals and exhibitions in Europe, Asia, the USA and Australia. In his projects, he explores the themes of futurism, transhumanism and modern science.
Fantastic encyclopedia has shown at the “AI HAS A SOUL” exhibition in ANU Museum, in Tel Aviv. where it was a part of “SlovoNovo” forum of Free Culture. June 2023. “Amanita AI” solo show opened at Homebrew Crypto Club, San Francisco, as part of the monthly CODAME ART+TECH Builders events. “Fantastic encyclopedia” is in the collection of Guelman und Unbekannt Gallery, Berlin.