Thus when an individual perceptual sense becomes locked in a technology, it becomes separated from the other senses. This portion of one s self clos-es, as if it were locked in steel. Prior to such separation, there is complete interplay among the senses. Virtual experience overthrows the sensorial and organic architecture of the human body by disembodying and reformatting its sensorium in powerful, computer generated, digitized spaces. 3 Cyberspace disengages from physical reality.
Sensory experience is reduced to a monomedium of digital coding.
The artwork in this exhibition links us to the mythology and spirituality of the digital world. We create convergence mythologies as a connective tissue between the physical and the world of the virtual spirit. African art embraces the differences between the world of matter and that of spirit through con-vergence mythologies. Each African culture has a specific explanation for the convergence of spirit and matter. For example, the Yoruba people con-ceive of the cosmos in terms of two distinct yet inseparable components.