User:Amy Suo Wu/Multiverse

Last night Mr Dusan Barok introduced Oliver Laric's video work titled 'version'(2009).

Berlin based artist, Oliver Laric is adept at subtle restructuring of existing popular media. With gentle emphasis he diverts images, turning them in on themselves to such a degree that they come to reflexively represent their own critique.

In one part of the work, he presents many re-appropriated thumbnail clips created by users of the moment that Zidane headbutts Materazzi. In context to manipulation, replication, authenticity, organic growth, copyright, networked media, a narrator overlays the Many Worlds theory by Hugh Everett. " similar to the many worlds theory by quantum physicist Hugh Everett, originally published in 1957, a multiplicity of realities can co- exist. According to Everett we live in a multiverse composed of a super position of very many, possibly infinitely many increasingly divergent non-communicating parallel universes or quantum worlds. Every historical 'what if' compatible with initial conditions and physical law is realised. Or outcomes exist simultaneously, but do not interfere further with each other. Each single prior world having split into mutually unobservable but equally real worlds. According to the artists and musician Momus, every lie creates a parallel world, the world in which is true.

'Many Worlds interpretation' Hugh Everett, 1957

• multiple realities(parallel universes are also called "alternative universes", "quantum universes", "interpenetrating dimensions", "parallel dimensions", "parallel worlds", "alternative realities", and "alternative timelines", among others.)

• not of mixed reality but of many realities exacerbated by new media to easily manipulate the perception of the possibilities of reality ( the individual interpretation of external information, data, output, signals, symbols etc .) for example:

-image manipulation tools like photoshop, --> one extra missile flying in the Iranian revolutionary guard published 2008

-video editing/manipulating tools. --> suicide machine in south park

-abundance of self publishing platforms such as blogs, twitter, forums, social networks to tell truths from personal narratives

-simulated games--> for the recruitment of US army, Micha Cardena's 'Becoming dragon'

-video games,

-analogue --theater, fables, myths, performing arts, visual arts, arts in general. lies! propaganda, closed societies i.e Amish)

--> What are the consequences of to being able to materialise, manifest your paradigm, reality, truth?

--> If we understanding that in Everett's 'many worlds interpretation' the dimensions are of non-communicating parallels, then the notion of mixed reality of 'transreal', is more than just awareness of each others existence. It is the bridging of communication between the realms.

• mutated repetitions.....
• perceptions of reality...
• augmented realities

• • • • I realise now that in this context, what i mean is representation...however can one representation be considered one universe? if so then Google, facebook, youtube..etc have quite obviously created their own universes.