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FOUNDERS BLOGMay 03, 2008 We are excited to welcome new hyperreal artists Guillermo Bert and Launa Bacon, both of whom add considerable depth to the MOHA aesthetic and conceptual exploration. Each of our artists come from very different perspectives, both in art and in life, so it is a pleasure to tie them together philosophically to reach a greater understanding of hyperreality and the consequences of living in today's decreasingly authentic world. We hope you will join the conversation and ask questions about what is real to you. FEATURED ARTICLEHyperreal Art: The Rise of the Technocrat and Simulacrum by Kriss Perras Running Waters Local Hyperreal artists Tiffany Trenda and Lisa Prichard Wiscombe will be part of two art events in the Los Angeles area. Trenda's art will be part of the TarFest Art Program presented in association with the Korean Culutral Center and the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825. Wiscombe's work will be part of the twice annual Brewery Art Walk. Trenda's apocalyptic aesthetic and soul baring passion is perhaps best viewed in her 2005 work A Condemned Opera. The work interwines human frailty with the power of technocratic devices after the collapse of the Price system. Wiscombe challenges the ultraconservative eye to think past ideas of the nude as dirty. By taking what might otherwise be seen as an archived Playboy image of woman and presenting the female form in an abandoned signifier that used to represent pornography, she replicates the image so the original form can no longer be referenced in a "dirty"definition. FEATURED ARTICLELiving in the Unreal World, part 1: A look at the evolution of simulated life and lifestyles Since humans first felt stress and anxiety about our world, we've been searching for a way to escape from it. Although there's a certain glib association between socially awkward introverts and the fantasy and science fiction genres, and in particular with role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, the image of the pale-faced player is being replaced with housewives, businessmen, and even the in-crowd. As the "fiction" part slowly fades away, with concepts once relegated to the imaginations of basements becoming mundane, and as fantasy becomes more and more integrated with experience, techno-escapism has officially gone mainstream.
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