Marwencol as a model for virtual Art Installations

[Astromancer]

Seeing the ads for the Film Welcome to Marwin, a fiction film inspired by the life of the photographer who is the subject of the documentary Marwencol. The artist who created Marwencol did so as a form of self-therapy after being the victim of a hate crime that left him brain damaged and missing his memories of his life.

This strikes me as relevant to THS in several ways. Art installations as multimedia constructs fit the culture and mood of Fifth Wave Societies as presented in the setting. Especially as bioshells designed to fit the construct are easily made. PCs visit inside of dollhouses or sunken cities or gardens of sculpted flowers in the Lunar wilds.

Another way that Marwencol fits the setting is that it is art as therapeutic memetic vector. PCs could visit a virtual ashram or an imaginary Belgian village threatened by the Nazis or whatever someone either used to heal themselves or some therapist or guru saw as a place of healing.

Given that Art Therapy is real in our world. It seems like it would be bigger and more commonplace in THS.

[Astromancer]

Does anyone have ideas or suggestions about artworks that are also worlds of their own and therapeutic or spiritual devices as well?

Do you think con artists could make use of these ideas in a twisted form?

[Shostak]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Does anyone have ideas or suggestions about artworks that are also worlds of their own and therapeutic or spiritual devices as well?

Do you think con artists could make use of these ideas in a twisted form?

Do you mean spaces like the famous Merzbau and James Turrell's Rodin Crater Project?

Con artists? If there is somthing to be exploited, con artists can make use of it. Some would argue that much of contemporary art is a con! Works by Banksy, and Wim Delvoye , for instance.

One wonders if counterfeit art would be brisk business because of a heightened value placed on originals in a time when making something that appears indistinguishable from an authentic Albrecht Altdorfer altarpiece or Nazca bowl is so simple.