What is reality?

For tribal societies reality was birthed from a great mother. For agrarian peoples it grew from a seed. And for our modern, industrial world reality started with an explosion.

Now as our society transforms into a post-modern, post-industrial world our model of reality is changing again. To a reality made of data, information and computation.

And at the heart of this new model of reality is...you! The render engine of your own reality.

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00:00 Real or rendered?

02:13 The work of Marco Di Lucca

04:20 Mata 3D, Unreal Engine, Metahuman

09:07 Isn't this what art has always done?

12:27 Crossing a threshold into the Unreal

15:33 Welcome to Rendered Reality

17:31 The reification of reality

19:25 What is rendering?

24:00 The cultural mythos of reality

33:53 Our new digital mythos

40:04 The mythic cycle

49:01 You are the render engine of reality