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Electronic workshops in computing

ISSN 1477-9358

3 papers in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2021-2025

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Cyberdelics: Designing immersive media for transpersonal experiences

Electronic workshops in computing 2025 Daniel Mirante, Carl Smith

Cyberdelics are forms of immersive media (XR, VR, generative AI worlds) that aim to emulate or induce transpersonal states of consciousness traditionally achieved through ritual, psychedelics, or spiritual practices. This discourse explores cyberdelic context engineering through an interdisciplinary synthesis of historical ritual traditions, transpersonal psychology, and design potentials...

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2025.37 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Transpersonal Human–computer interaction Multimedia Psychotherapist

World Wide Soul: Post-Identity and Network Spirituality

Electronic workshops in computing 2024 Ana Bandeira

This essay engages with online posting as a machinic beyond, observing how networks increase the proliferating potential of memetic egregores. What is like to post like a machine? To relinquish monolithic identity and build new multiple ones, as if trained by the collective intelligence of online rings via collective posting swarms, questioning traditional copyright frameworks while celebrating...

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/pom24.2 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Soul Spirituality Identity music Aesthetics +1

The Museum of Consciousness: Interactive, audio-based exhibits for cultivating altered states of consciousness

Electronic workshops in computing July 1, 2021 Carl Smith, Kenneth Shinozuka, Alex T. Zhao et al. 3 citations

The Museum of Consciousness contains exhibits by a multitude of artists, mavericks and consciousness explorers who are here to transmit their most treasured work: For the first exhibition we decided to use short, audio-based samples that are designed to cultivate and manufacture expansive states of consciousness. The range of samples encompassed by the current iteration of the museum includes...