Animismation

By: Matthew Battles
October 6, 2010

Somebody tell me what to call this.

a Forest within a Forest from QNQ/AUJIK on Vimeo.

Is AUJIK the work of cultists, artists, or Cameron wannabes? Or all of the above? (Maybe there’s an answer here.)

We’re way beyond Morlocks and Eloi here. It’s peri-Ballardian roadside picnic meets cyber-Shinto manifesto. Nature naturing; oh, what a tangled bank we weave.

The older stuff has an astonishing feel to it, to:

YUKI from QNQ/AUJIK on Vimeo.

— via Bruce Sterling’s blog Beyond the Beyond.

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cyborgs, nature, religion, Shinto

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

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