Meditation for Avatars

Review by Les Loncharich on Furtherfield.org

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The project Meditation for Avatars by Ute Hoerner and Mathias Antlfinger, enlists personal computers to make spiritual projections. Participants in this project donate processing time on personal computers; the computers process mantras and send them through the Internet. A mantra is a repeated chanted sound that is used to focus one's concentration during meditation. Personal computers are used because if there is one thing computers are good at, it's undeviating repetition. The goal of the project, which the creators describe as an "artistic experiment", is to raise the spiritual consciousness of those donating processor time…

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