Toward a Holographic Panoptics of the Mind | After Dark Online

Toward a Holographic Panoptics of the Mind Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence Tristan Duke in conversation with writer Lawrence Weschler around Duke’s new work, Aperture Lucida Thursday, July 15, 2021 • 8:00 p.m. At first the thing presents itself as a thick black monolith, hovering in midair at the heart of a gleaming white cube of a room—or wait, not a monolith, two monoliths perpendicularly wedged, the one fast against the other. And nested there, four feet out from where the dense black plinths intersect, floats an amorphous immaterial globe of light, which seems to bob in rhythm with each step the visitor takes toward it, or rather toward the crowd of other visitors already gathered round it, drop-jawed before the stupefying apparition. But go ahead, join them, and in fact summon up the gumption to step between them so as to lean your head into the ball of light, at which point, like magic, the entire black edifice will simply disappear. Welcome to Aperture Lucida, the latest creat