Clouds NYC by Mirena Rhee

Today's list by Mirena Rhee

Misinformation

Polit-think

Group-think

Trend-think

Censorship

Suppression of speech

Algorithm-think

Wrong-think

Right-think

Must-think

Kill-think

Shop-think is always ok though

Corporate-think

The machines have started selecting all the offenders

Reminds me of a certain communist dictatorship I grew up in, history repeats itself in new clothes

When they start arresting artists and people for Say Crimes

Do not let corporations shut us up for Think-crimes

Government mandated

Banned

Banned words

Shadow-banned

Words are banned but not guns

Today's list by Mirena Rhee

I don't subscribe to tribalism

countryism

localism

languageism

DNA-ism

I will speak whatever language I want and I'll be from whatever country I want and I will belong to whatever place I want.

MOMA = Artism on Command by Corporate Demand by Mirena Rhee

MOMA = Art on Command by Corporate Demand.

The Cultural Dictatorship of $Digital Corporationship. Now corporations are in charge of telling you what kind of art to make.

MOMA has stooped to a new low, this used to be an institution presenting cutting edge art. Now I see the same things that I see on social media, the AI Art BS. They all train models and make meaningless computer tomography images. It's just photoshopped somebody else's stuff, I can do it in 3 seconds on my Mac applying five Photoshop filters in a row, and then if I throw my Mac out of the window then it's going to be even more radical.

While MOMA ignored cutting edge digital works for the past 20 years. By the way we did these kind of images in video games 20 years ago. I can show you a screenshot of a video game that I made exactly 20 years ago that looks better and more timely than what I see in Norma, aka MOMA.

Art On Command, Your art has to be trained on Dogma.

It reminds me of the communist dictatorship I grew up in behind the Red Curtain.

Now we have the Digital Curtain conveniently obscuring the soulless fragmentation of our society by algorithmically commanding all our interactions.

Ingredients of a Subway Car by Mirena Rhee

Ingredients of a Subway Car is a series of installations, performance and simulations inspired by the NYC subway and based on a drawing of the same name. Culminating in a series of videos and a solo show of the same name, 2017.

Traveling by Mirena Rhee

I get goosebumps and profound oneness with the universe thinking about the tiny human creations made by the yearnings of our soft fleshes, crawling around Mars carrying the desperate human questions.

We are star stuff, our elements made in the Big Bang and excreted by turbulent stars, we are the Star Stuff. We are not going, but returning to it.

They say all the universe and all in it is just one thing sloshing around a bit, for a little bit. It's not even sloshing that much, it just is. If that is true we are not really traveling to outer space, we are going inwards, into ourselves.

People by Mirena Rhee

All friendships and relationships in the US revolve around money. This is a wasted opportunity.

People have been convinced by financial institutions and media conglomerates who naturally own all media that the only viable relationship is the relationship to money. This is the only true life consideration and they perpetuate this nonstop.

So naturally people get alienated from other people because they don't consider peopleship a worthy pursuit. Instead, people pursue relationships with money.

On the other hand, art is supported usually by wealthy people, who are skilled at money. It is great when people use their talents to generate wealth.

Developments like space exploration, which is my biggest private obsession, are championed by massive amounts of money. And practically single-handedly developed by very talented entrepreneurs like Elon Musk.

So my heart is split there. I have no answers and I do not offer any condemnations because that would be untruthful.

The only guarantee is I'm going to keep asking the questions every single day

Truth by Mirena Rhee

As an artist, I have always been interested in truth.

If I were to write an artist manifesto today it will contain only one word, truth.

I spent the first half of my career finding truth in pure making. I never really asked any of the questions until I developed all my instruments. When I got my instruments I started on finding out the truth.

Some days I found the truth to be a single word. Other days a word was not even necessary, it was just a thought. And then even a thought was not necessary but an all-encompassing feeling.