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Praying for Rain
Tin makes bronze, bronze makes mirrors, and mirrors are portals, charms, and lanterns in the underworld.
Mesoamericans, to whom our New World was not so new, had no tin to speak of, and thus no Eurocentric colonizer’s “Bronze Age”; but they had dark, glossy mirrors of polished volcanic glass (and a glyph of–as far as we can tell–a flaming television), a highly evolved underworld, and empire-toppling, desiccatory climate changes mirroring our own. Their agriculture exploited hybridization, and their hierarchically structured states sponsored inter-generational warfare, just like the Old World!
In “Praying for Rain,” wikiGong.com ventures through the looking glass to reflect on a dimension our future won’t repeat, but must rhyme with.
wikiGong.com catalogs the sounds of large public structures for creative purposes, including the creation of new virtual instruments.
Dave Ayer built his first virtual instruments at Northern Illinois University and earned an MFA in Sculpture in 1987. He launched the wikiGong.com web site in July 2009.
Jacob Dickinson keeps bees to prepare for Hive Mind assimilation after his failed 50-year advocacy of ethical AI and automation development.
Stable Diffusion labors ceaselessly to turn the graphic arts world upside-down.
ChatGPT puts white collar job security in a flaming bag on the front porch and rings the doorbell. Other contributors TBD.
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