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Oculart

01/01/2002
Furtherfield

Oculart is a playful and visionary Internet Art piece that transcends the every day, using Flash in a way that stuns one’s expectations and emotional reasoning. One cannot help but get lost and caught up in its seemingly never-ending mesmerization. With an accompanying soundtrack reminiscent of Holger Czuckay’s ‘cannabis’, originally inspired by Stockhausen, slow hybrid, layered soundscapes with distant voices haunting the mind. It’s like hearing the lost souls of chanting transubstantiated beauty, wrapped with a sense of foreboding, shadowed with the inevitable end. Oculart is a fascinating and surreal experience, declaring a kind of honest visceralness. Mixing dreams, images of objects and people, with poetic text entwined within the structure of the interactive site. A psychological and seductive experience that leaves you with a feeling of elation, beauty, darkness and that awkward bedfellow – fear.