Speculative Realist (Found) Object Intervention at MIT List Visual Arts Center courtesy of Paradigm Shifting Sultan Sharrief’s Quantum Leap

“Speculative Realist (Found) Object Intervention” at “Welcome to MIT Playtest” at MIT List Visual Arts Center on May 16 succeeded in bring a post-subjective dialectic simultaneously into the American art museum & the academy at the start of “MIT Media in Transition +10: Democracy in Digital Media” — where the Mother of all academic panels took place under Sultan Sharrief’s visionary art process.

The introduction to the conference in the rarified space of the MIT List Arts Center was an interactive/participatory Event delivering the new paradigm art that I have been exalting as a critic for two decades!

At the entrance was preconference organizer Sultan Sharrief’s invitation to participate in his VR multimedia project-in-process: “Ancestral Holograms.” Encountering his ancestor in VR had a haunting effect after I met his brother in the food line and experienced his mother’s powerful presence on the integrated panel offering valuable insights about authentic collaboration arising from the heart — with examples in the local community.

By way of this rooted authenticity, the ancestral tradition leaps from locality to the national stage of the art museum!

“Welcome to MIT Playtest” on May 16, 2019 was an invitation to conference participants bring projects for open discussion…

“Speculative Realist (Found) Objects & the Ontology of Desire: Montreal, Cyprus and Berlin” found there way into the art museum by way of “Welcome to MIT Playtest” on May 16, 2019.

img_6103-2 — Phenomenology of “Speculative Realist (Found) Object Intervention” was intended to accompany my May 17 delivery of my paper…

5085E161-D359-4517-9C37-9D68CE33D6EE — Phenomenology of “Speculative Realist (Found) Object Intervention” was intended to accompany my May 17 delivery of my paper…

Valerie Giovanini (EGS 2017) hands a participant a card about her “Handmaiden’s Tale” panel with a photo depicting the use of the speculative object of the Eros uniform in civil disobedience.

img_6119-1 — I discuss a new dialectic of Eros in the academy with Sasha, a theater student deconstructing the character of Blanche in “Streetcar named Desire” for the local Fringe Festival.

After my first participation in an authentic incorporation of VR as an interactive medium into a paradigm leap as the organizer’s prompt into “Welcome to MIT Playtest”…participants were led through a makeshift labyrinth in the basement of the building…

….where Sultan Sharrief arose above the seated crowd as the priest of a new order, bringing his ancestry from virtual reality into the heart of the live action — by way of introducing a panel projecting into the future with his mother Sabreen Sharrief and four other paradigm shifter’s leap into the future (L-R): Henry Jenkins, Cornel West, Charity Everett and Jongwoo Han.

3E85825D-2A24-4B14-ABEA-288A225255F1 — ….where Sultan Sharrief arose above the seated crowd as the priest of a new order, bringing his ancestry from virtual reality into the heart of the live action — by way of introducing a panel projecting into the future with his mother Sabreen Sharrief and four other paradigm shifter’s leap into the future (L-R): Henry Jenkins, Cornel West, Charity Everett and Jongwoo Han.

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