"Rites of Passage," highlights from my five musical sets on the playa this year, will be available for free on 11/11/11 at http://michaelgarfield.net/ In the meantime, you can download music and lectures from prior burns, and the year-round gift economy rampage that my life has become, here: http://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/ (music) http://evolution.bandcamp.com/ (philosophy) Subscribe to biweekly art & music updates by email: http://michaelgarfield.blogspot.com Thanks for listening! For collaborations and business inquiries, please contact via Channel Pages: http://ChannelPages.com/michaelgarfield ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5q3n54u93Q

This week our guest is Mark Lee (Somnio8), an amazing artist.  One of my favorite visionary painters.  We spoke in the Museum of Visionary Art at Boom Festival about free energy devices, the creative culture of Bali, and the awesome potentials of our collective future... http://somnio8.com  is currently down so check out his FB page: https://www.facebook.com/somnio8/ A very soft spoken dude, too, so apologies in advance for the festival background noise. Don Harris’ inherited patent for radionics technology and the nature of the strange pocketwatch-like device that Mark was holding during our interview (which you can see a picture of [here ]). A bit of not-precisely scientific exposition of radionics, scalar wave technology, the Casimir Effect, antigravity, and so on.  Short detours into the Michaelson-Morley Experiment, the supposed disproof of the luminiferous ether, and more recent perspectives on a superfluid rather than solid ether as the basis for “over-unity” devices. How this field of study and this work has influenced and affected Mark’s life and artwork…the intersection of Golden Ratio technology and 3D printing will be a revolution.  How studying shape and material properties and our ability to manipulate them in this time and age has inspired some awesome new toys and allows us to “cross the line between art and technology”. Mark recommends the following YouTube video: Shape Power by Dan Davidson Mark’s device reminds Michael of a time machine that he imagined for a sci-fi novel he and his friends tried to write in high school:  one of those magical technologies that was never invented, just passed from older back to younger selves in a time loop… “I really want to inspire more artists to take up playing with 3D and using games engines, because it’s the ultimate tool for sharing any idea we can imagine.” This year is the year we’re starting to see legitimate gestural interfaces – 3D controllers like the HTC Vive and the importance of being able to use our hands and work in the sculptural space of VR with our whole bodies, not just a mouse and keyboard. Mark’s recent project with Sasha Stone (founder of Example Zero) on ANCIENT FUTURES, a festival in Bali that he’s helping conceive and art direct.  One idea he’s using:  the ticket is an hourglass with a single grain of sand in it to represent stardust and autonomy, and to invite a range of other meanings. Dan Winter, physicist, at http://goldenmean.info is another fantastic resource for new/alternate physics on scalar waves and phase-conjugate fields (and how different materials and geometries affect the human organism). Temple mathematics and the architecture of transcendence.  Bioarchitecture.  “If you can’t grow a seed in the ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx6usVGPYck