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“To don the mask of Miya is a liberation, & culmination of her teachings, a ritual in identity freedom, in shitposting lucidity. To copy merrily from the network, speak to all by speaking only to oneself.

“Network spirituality” was originally coined by Remilia Collective artist FODCOM, and widely introduced with the title for our show “I Long for Network Spirituality”, and its meaning has been discussed and unpacked variously in the months since.

Auction Core as an Ethos and an Aesthetic bleeds through a lot of work, especially all of mine at Remilia. Auction Core can be described as a modern…

The default state of online existence is as an anonymous marketplace of ideas, a free market of memetic competition.

Everyone should have access to "unfettered and unmoderated" online communication, that is also surveillance resistant and illegible to the state.

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Runaway egregorism (networks of network angels manifesting network archangels and etc) is an important phenomenon to explore but to suggest that it creates deities is blasphemy. God exists in the Wired because God exists everywhere. The network does not create any Gods.

Information wants to be free, culture follows evolutionary flows—viral memetics—and accreditation, provenance, patents, copyright are all burdens that strangle the free flow of the work and ruin its memetic fitness.

The problem of monetizing digital content is reproducible information is effectively infinite in supply, leaving it impossible to price, free like air.

For the art world, last wave of net art died as "post-internet art" in the mid-aughts & has laid dead, largely killed by an oppressive wave of woke politics on art, a censorious entryism inherently intolerant of the actual internet's anarchist heart. !

Remilia's art carries its own vision w/in it, roughly summarized: neo-orientalism, hypercitationalism, jovial irreverence. Neo-orientalism: we're very inspired by east asia's art scene & pop culture, specifically the subcultural niches developed in their own reverse orientialist western fetishism.

New wave digital art should not be judged solely on aesthetic merit but just as importantly for its ability to develop a total vision of the Wired and above all create network spirituality.