principles//
technologies

MAGINES:
OTHER METAPHORS FOR OTHER REALITIES

What would be the experiences and effects of harmonious navigations?

How to articulate such navigations?

Where to look for models for healing thought structures?

What new forms of beauty would this reveal?

How would such forms enable new modes of communication and visions?

What new realities would this structures forge?

The DIGITAL INTERFACE is the current stage of evolution of technical images.

The imagination of MAGINES engages the morphological elements of the DI to conjur 'other' metaphors

MAGINES are VODÚ: healing technologies

There are two main components to the DIGITAL INTERFACE, from which two kinds of images derive:

**Visual environment: a morphing collage of visual, sounds and texts elements conventionally arranged under the metaphor of the "page"

**The hyperlinked structure: the mesh of links connecting the "pages". Born as narrative device for the [hyper]text, the hyperlink in[tro]duces the NAVIGATION, a radically new experience that has become central to contemporary ways of being :: online derives are the pre-condition for knowing/existing.

USER :: CO-CREATOR

NAVIGATE :: HEAL

CREATOR::HEALER

OPEN EXPERIENCES

MAGINES is an information system that embraces today's new forms of knowledge formation and dissemination.

MAGINES is a microverse of information clusters in meaning-building intra-relations

MAGINES is a fractal structure the geometries of which exceeds 3-dimensional representations

MAGINES is a holograph: it is a whole and its parts

MAGINES is a rhyzome: information is gathered through navigation. A weak structure but invites derives

These clusters are represented as parts of a large abstract spatialities

As technical devices, MAGINES

// deploy thought enhancing technologies

// articulate spatial experiences counter to the harmful effects that currently dominant design practices bare on our mental processes

//catalyze new forms of knowledge formation + dissemination, related to new forms of existence

As magic objects, MAGINES would

// enable imaginations of our e-merging beings
// emphasize the transdimensional nature of contemporary existences
// re+inhabit expanded dimensions of perception
// restore access to othered forms of imagination ++ ancestral spatial knowledges / cosmos
// conjure magical futures


As a poetic endeavor, MAGINES would

// imagine new forms of beauty embedded in DI
// foster e-merging forms of imagination
// imagine the co-creation of newly e-merging realities