About his virtual installation “Recursivity”, Oscar A. Montiel

“We couldn’t conceive of art, or conceive of the value of art, until we had higher order consciousness,” says Benjamin Smith, a rock art scholar at the University of Western Australia. Reaffirming this, Jo Marchant from The Smithsonian Magazine tells us that ancient art is a marker for this cognitive shift and therefore early paintings of figures and animals are evidence for the modern human mind.

As we increasingly move into and explore virtual worlds it feels as though we have come full circle. When people look back at the drawings we are currently making across virtual caves will we see this as the beginning of another leap of cognisance? If so, where are we going? It seems as though we are standing on the age of an entirely new world of art.

In his upcoming virtual installation “Recursivity”, Oscar A. Montiel designs with code the idea of the self interlaced with different realities. His model also combines the viewers perspective as part of a new corporality as they navigate the installation.