ORIGIN

Origin an interview with Art Blue by Jami Mills

[Editor's Note: This story is placed by Art Blue in the stack of Jami Mills. I was there inside the owl. It is a true story.] met Art Blue and we took our seats to have the interview. In fact, it became a trip. A trip to ORIGIN. He told me that this destination needs a different setting, one I shall never forget, as the title is ORIGIN. I said to him that I would never forget when we first met, the ORIGIN of our cooperation. He looked at me through the eyes of the owl, Neruval; you know, his longtime companion which I call my close friend. Neruval, sitting on Art’s shoulders as usual, nods, clicking his beak twice, and I understood. I handed my stack over to Art to let my mind slip into the sleeve that was said to be ready. My stack is now there where Art decided to put me. I’ve heard such a thing will be quite common in the future. I’ve watched the episodes of Altered Carbon on Netflix, so I made the deal.

the kind of music Art Blue that listens to while he writes his story for my magazine, this story. My story. I hear Blutengel You Walk Away. https://youtu.be/RlxSYt9MBC8 Will it be my story? Is it a construct for the story of the bunny? What does ORIGIN mean? A code is running in the stack. Each month I get a glimpse ofArt - - an impact of an eyelash to the code of life. I am the publisher of rez Magazine. I have not edited The Sand Bible, just the tiny pieces in rez. Maybe the owl is behind this all? Altered Carbon plays with the horizontal figure of eight. Are ORIGIN and DESTINY shaking hands? Both moving up in a spiral curve, Art would add. There's so much wrong in your life And you wish you could turn back time. No time for sorrow, no time to regret. You're drowning in the sands oftime But life goes on day by day, And all the faults will remain. You keep all the memories in your heart. You know they will keep you from being free.

In my mind music emanates. I feel Presence. Presence in an immersive way James Morrow described in 1981 for Sozyo, “The image had height, width, depth and a fourth D that eluded You walk away, precise definition. It was called You walk away. Presence.” I hear music not via my ears. I feel that I am music. In Altered The song is over and I hear the owl. He Carbon, it is called a construct. I feel speaks to Art, “Don’t do the auto

repeat on her, don’t loop the song a dozen times. Jami doesn’t need to render her brain like you need to do in order to accelerate your writing, to go into writer’s space.” I know he uses Silva Mind Control. His special way of gaining meaning in the tsunami of data is through repetition, an insight he shares in The Sand Bible. I say to the owl, “I want to be like him.” I don’t mean it literally. He often intentionally says the wrong thing so the correction will come back stronger. The mistake becomes part of the telling, creating an imprint in your mind. I needed quite a long time to understand Art: reverse psychology, paradoxical intervention and Applied Surreality come in my mind. All concepts suited to handle anxiety disorders. Now I have to listen and embrace my fears. It’s the first time my stack has been transferred to a different sleeve. I listen to the repetition of You Walk Away and I think back.

single line. Some tears run down my cheeks. I am invited to the Art Talk. ORIGIN. Just one word. I will know. The Talk has a second headline: MARE NOSTRUM. I see my mind pulled to a flight over Barcelona. The skyline at night is impressive. I see the giant Basilica, the Sagrada Familia, the most famous building of Gaudi. My eyes swiftly turn to the campus of the University of Barcelona. I see the Chapel Torre Girona in the middle of it, a nice pond next to it. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center. There I will meet him: Art.

I suddenly understand the German language. Blutengel is singing, “Alles hört auf zu existieren. I know you are one of us. No more fear and no more pain. We will protect you eternally. Komm mit uns. You are so much better and you are so different. You don’t deserve a night like this. The only price It’s been a long time since I’ve heard you have to pay is to leave this world songs from the group. There was a behind.” They say that I am different. I time Art Blue didn’t write a single know I am. Not many know. Art article without the voice of Blutengel. knows. I know. Is this the face, the core of ORIGIN? Music accelerating my mind without Winston welcomes me. No need to running insane? I see the speedometer. introduce himself. I have read Dan I run now on nanoseconds. How much Brown’s ORIGIN. Winston knows this. faster is this compared to the human Nevertheless, he introduces himself as brain that runs on milliseconds for a the Artificial Intelligence with 7thought? All the songs of Blutengel I letters. “For a reason,” he adds, and I hear during the time you read this notice Neruval’s smile. “For a reason,”

the owl repeats. An insight hits me. Both have the same creator. “The gallery has opened,” Winston says and Neruval adds, “I hide you.” What the owl did not say is for how long. If I would have known in advance that I will be presented at the end of the show, I might have fainted, but I can’t predict the future. The Halting theorem, you know. So the Art Talk begins and I listen …

Art: Can you please show the audience the Chapel? Juliette: You mean Mare Nostrum? Art: I mean the place hosting the Gods. Juliette: I have the pictures you gave me.

MARE NOSTRUM Juliette Surreal-D.: Hello and welcome everyone to this month's Art Blue Art Talk: MARE NOSTRUM. Art Blue speaks about THE ORIGIN OF RED. Let me bring you all on track as to how this subject came about. Three days ago, I asked Art Blue, “What will the Art Talk on Thursday be about? I need to send out the invites.” He said, “It will be about Ayla Red. She needs a red dress.” I asked, “Who is this?” He said, “It is the most famous Heart in the Universe!” I asked, “According to?” “According to Art Blue,” he replied. I had to laugh. *smiles* That was three days ago, but if you know Art Blue, you never know what will Art: It shall have the number 1. really happen when it comes to action. Everyone please welcome Art Blue. Juliette: OK... but number 1 is called MareNostrum_01 Art: Juliette? Juliette: Yes, Art.

Art: Hmmmmm. I called it Chapel_1

Neruval: The texture slide script of ‌ when ??? Neruval? Juliette needs an ascending order so I Neruval: May I correct Juliette first? renamed them all to MareNostrum_## * * *

Juliette raises her eyebrows and looks at the owl.

Art: Gosh, make it fast and by the Neruval: The first letters have to be the Gods of Cobol answer my question. same for ##-numbering. To avoid a Art: *Kobol (You see Art Blue made a typo on purpose to give attention to how programming languages and the names of Gods are connected and corrects it in the next line.) Neruval: Juliette said God, you said Gods. There is a big difference. God was installed at Chapel Torre Girona in 1945 and dismantled in 1970. It took more than 40 years until the Gods took over. Now Mare Nostrum 4 reaches 13,7 petaflops which are 13 700 000 000 000 000 Floating points operations per second.

glitch. Art sighs.

Art: Not bad for Europe. There have been 17,50 petaflops reported by Cray at UT–Battelle, Tennessee. They used NVIDIA Tesla graphic processing.

Juliette: Here is MareNostrum_01, the Neruval: I know why you say this, but one God is hosted, as you said Art. I will not spam it loud. Art: Thank you. Here we see the house of God, built in Barcelona of the year,

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Juliette smiles to Neruval and throws him some nuts ... “I smell Art Blue has a hidden agenda. Do tell, my dear owl, the only God I believe in.” Neruval: “Hm … the good nuts from Santorini. Thank you Juliette.” The owl makes a smacking sound, “I was in Santorini in 2016 at the IMMERSIVIA and I know the good quality of nuts, the tasty sesame ones, made by …” Art: Stop this owl! *the owl falls silent and rezzes instead friend Winston operates. a texture* Art: I have no problem opening the Neruval: The Origin of Art is there! hidden agenda. My short story in rez Please let me use the entrance. I give Magazine, Sand Meets Water, focuses you, I give you … on human brains fed by NVIDIA graphics cards. It is free to read, Art looks to the owl who has stopped to crack the nuts, “What did you intend nothing hidden. to give me?“ Juliette: Art, see what the owl has Neruval: I give you a heart. rezzed. Look! Art: A heart? I have one already. Art looks to the chart and turns white. Art: That’s the Chapel code from 2012 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Keeps Cray the Chapel entrance still open? That’s enough Neruval. All readers of Dan Brown’s ORIGIN know that the Chapel houses the Gods of Informatics in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center where your

Neruval: Look my prediction routine; it says you will not make it much longer, with … *the owl looks to Juliette* Neruval: You said it over and over that she gives you heart attacks.

wonder that Neruval predicts a final heart burst. Neruval: May I? Juliette: A second heart, a backup for Art Blue? Art nods to Neruval. Neruval: I enter the chapel code and instruct Winston. It will take a bit. I can blend in some pictures as the heart is generated. * * *

Juliette laughs, then goes pale ... “Your Juliette: Does Mare Nostrum now prediction algorithm? How long?” work on the heart? Neruval: He needs a backup Juliette, Neruval: Yes; all 13,7 pentaflops are urgently. running. Juliette: But he is Art. Art stands for Artificial Intelligence. Dan Brown says Juliette: How long will it take to have so in ORIGIN. He can’t die. Art can’t the heart ready? die. Neruval: The heart is logging in. Here Neruval: But he is also Blue and on she comes. Blue Dan Brown says nothing. At least Juliette: What? What? Alya Red? nothing good. Juliette: I can’t believe it. When you Art: Ah, that’s my second heart? look on the internet, Art Blue looks so AlyaRed Resident with a display name healthy and besides the fee for that Alya.Red? domain is paid for 10 years in advance. Neruval: That’s the name of the I paid it. machine. You did not say you wanted a Art Blue: What did you do? No different name, so I kept the default

that the Barcelona Supercomputing 2018. If I’d have known that I’d be Center has for the heart, the most placed in the middle of the story, I would never have joined, never given advanced one on the planet. my stack in this sleeve. But it’s too Juliette: Gosh, what a fake. I see Art late now. I’ll have to file a report. Blue smiling. He is simulating heart Maybe I’ll hit back and insert Art attacks just to create a female ALT to Blue as the author, as he did here with me. I haven’t written a word by play with. myself. They might be all written by Art: The ORIGIN of Red. BLUE meets this Winston guy, a creation of Art’s. Has his creator, Edmond Kirsch, RED. found his way back? Maybe his Art: If you are nice, I may allow you to stack got a backup and he’s not really dead, only in Dan Brown’s play with her. book ORIGIN?] Juliette rolls her eyes, shaking her head and says as ordered, “I would love to play with her." [Editor’s Note: Part Two of ORIGIN will follow in rez Magazine May