Machina Mystica
Machina Mystica
Aaron Ross
NTSC DVD
60 minutes
Price $25.00
Institutional price: $50.00
Warning: some of these videos include intense flickering light. View at your own risk!
Anthology of short experimental videos by Aaron F. Ross, from the period 1990-1991. The artist makes extensive use of analog video synthesizers, video feedback, and flicker. Sound and music are woven together and are inspired by esoteric traditions such as Tibetan Buddhism and Occidental alchemy. The videos are scientifically designed to be vehicles for personal transformation. Your neural pathways will be forever changed.
Avant-garde video art — Brain hacking — Visual Music — Gripping metaphysical odysseys
Complexity theory — Alchemical mysteries — Semiotic stone soup — Eastern philosophy
Cyberpunk transhumanism — Subversive meditation
Selected exhibitions:
BFA Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990
WRO ’90, Sound Basis Visual Arts Festival, Wroclaw Poland, 1990
Projections, CalArts, Los Angeles, 1991
4th International Videoweek, Geneva, 1991
Videonale 5, Bonn, 1992
Artists Television Access, San Francisco, 1993
Buddhist Film Showcase, San Francisco, 2000
This collection includes:
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MANTRA 1990 |
| TEMENOS 1991 | |
| Coils of the Worm 1991 | |
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The Making of “Coils of the Worm” 1991 |


