R.I.P. SOPHIE: The Sound of Barriers Shattering Birthing the Iconic Face of the Hieros Gamos in POP

The news of the death of Sophie catapulted her divine image across the Internet in the wake of the transitional 28 January Leo Full Moon. The 2018 “coming out” of the multimedia boundary smasher artist as the transgender SOPHIE pop star born in Heaven … … revealed the authentic person behind the SELF creations asContinue reading “R.I.P. SOPHIE: The Sound of Barriers Shattering Birthing the Iconic Face of the Hieros Gamos in POP”

DIGGING DEEPER: Revaluing Art Value during the Great Pause of COVID-19*

Going Deeper is the Cosmic Opportunity of the 2020 Pluto Saturn conjunction…the art world response is #ramuntchomattatarocchi.
 

THE EROTIC NIGHT: The Dark Energy Aesthetic in Contemporary Art

“The Erotic Night: Dark Energy as an Aesthetic in Contemporary Art” 
presented by Dr Streitfeld at the
International conference / Colloque international Media and the Night: Les médias et la nuit
18-19 March/mars 2022

Eros as the Unifying Force of a New Modernism

Lisa Streitfeld’s New Observations article defining a New Modernism of gender balance and equality: New Observations issue #33 page 22! Click here for link to Dr. Streitfeld’s podcast with Mia Feroleto on the topic of Kundalini in art.

“Paul is Dead” at 50: An Excavation

PAUL IS DEAD is a subject ripe for mediological excavation requiring occult tools that have always factored into interpretations of Beatles’ messaging.  The time and place to introduce a new “Science of Magic” with its forbidden apparatus into the academy has never been better.  Conspiracy theories surrounding Paul McCartney have been ramped up after the release of his new album Egypt Station and triumphant Freshen Up World Tour ending in July, while a virtual stream of mediology phenomenology (here is one from Revolver where the band’s transformation began) about The Beatles’ creative process keeps the online investigations fresh.  There is always something new to discover, which keeps the discussion open-ended.

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/Great Mother was publicly honored on a gender equal panel.

TIME’S UP JAMES FRANCO!

Postmodernism is a movement that refused to die. The aged postmodern icons go on and on…and as prominent critic Eleanor Heartney declared way back in 2004: “There is nothing to replace (them).” And then, along came James Franco… By 2008. the movie star had become bored and frustrated with the limitations of his expression confinedContinue reading “TIME’S UP JAMES FRANCO!”

In Memoriam 2017: Dianne Bowen, Anne Dufourmantelle and Kate Millett

Three amazing women delivering the re-emergence of the feminine archetype passed away in 2017, leaving a crucial legacy of the 21st century journey — to internally embody the hieros gamos. Their collective contribution is lauded here as the essential crossing of boundaries between word/image for the collective goal of the physical embodiment of the Aquarian icon of gender equality.