Podcast 422 – “Visualizing the Psychedelic Experience”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

Personal Journals, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Philosophy

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Guest speaker: Niles Heckman PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Niles Heckman.] “The visual component of the psychedelic experience is for the most part the final frontier for what computer graphics still have yet to replicate faithfully.” “Art isn't really important unless it helps you grow in creating it, or it helps others grow through its consumption.” “Computer graphics are, and will continue to be, the tool used to visualize what is essentially unlanguageable.” “It's really fascinating that indigenous people have essentially been uploading themselves to much more advanced organic realms for potentially thousands of years, if not more, seeing imagery that's much more complex than what you can see in a Hollywood summer blockbuster today.” “Psychedelic experiences, whether real or future replicated, if done responsibly, aren't negative escapism but could be a true awakening process for more people, because we are not human beings that can have spiritual experiences, we are spiritual beings having human experiences.” “Ambitions are competitive, aspirations are not. Aspirations take nothing from anyone else and injure no one else and allow you as a sovereign individual to grow, because that's why we're all here.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Niles Heckman's contact information: Twitter Production Company Podcast Post-Burning Man companion interview with Rak Razam and Niles Heckmen for his podcast “In A Perfect World.” Blue Morpho.tv Foundation Upcoming Events What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff

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0:00.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic space.
0:05.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.
0:24.3	This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:30.0	And today we're going to be treated to another of the 2014 Palenque-Norte lectures,
0:33.5	the ones that were held at this year's Burning Man extravaganza.
0:36.4	And our guest speaker is Niles Heckman.
0:42.4	And while his name may not be one that you recognize, my guess is that you've seen some of his work.
0:43.7	Niles also has his own podcast, and after we listen to his talk, I'll pass along more information
0:49.0	about how to contact him.
0:50.9	But for now, sit back, relax, and join me as we learn how the psychedelic experience is seen through the eyes of a professional computer graphic artist.
1:02.7	Welcome back to Palenke-Norte. Thank you all for coming out.
1:08.0	So I'm happy to introduce Niles, Heckman. Niles is an artist and filmmaker.
1:12.6	After years of working on large professional teams,
1:15.6	he's now focusing on putting his skill set to more of his own personal projects,
1:19.6	allowing him more creative freedom.
1:21.6	So here's Niles to discuss conscious art
1:23.6	and visualizing the psychedelic experience using computer graphics.
1:29.8	Hello, beautiful people.
1:39.4	If you had said to me five years ago I would be coming to, let alone speaking at Burning Man,
1:45.6	I would have thought you were out of your mind. So transitioning times we live in, it's delightful to be here. My name's Niles Hedman. I'm an artist and filmmaker. I'd like to thank Bruce Damer and Chris Pezza for having me
1:50.6	here today. My background as an artist is a career in the Hollywood visual effects industry,
1:56.0	which is basically a fusion of art and technology. And I've had a wide-ranging career doing a variety of different roles in a variety of different locations.
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