Karen Stanwood and Jai Hudes
For the month of September 2021 at Sparrow ArtSpace, Karen & Jai will be collaborating in the space of eXperiential Play, where Art & Conversation meets Technology & the Infinite Game of Life. The creative output will be a Community eXperience GameStorm™, connecting us through Karen's Art Collections, "PercariUS Times 2020" and into her latest (in process) pencil and ink collection, "Healing Journey 2021". Art + X the Game + Technology makes Personal and Universal Connections that Tell the Story of Us . . . now and into the future.
Karen Stanwood
Karen Stanwood Jenkins is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Karen spent her younger years studying music and design and thrives in creating atmosphere and ambience through music, prose, food, visual art and play. During early 2020, quarantined in Florida without a piano, she needed a way to express how this global pandemic was unfolding, so took paper and pencils and drew the mood and predicament of these times in 8 pieces of visual art, descriptive writing and a 40 card collectable game set called PercariUS Times. With their XR Miami team, Jai worked with them to create Karen as an avatar and her artwork displayed as a virtual world.
Karen came back to Calgary and began a Healing Journey she did not expect, a more personal isolation period that is her project for the month-long residency. The next 8 pieces are a play on Black and White holes of the (s)hero's journey and the need to keep our eyes on beauty as we go through these PercariUS Times inside and out. Dimensional drawing and narratives meant to Free the Creator in all of us.
I create an art form that is centered at the intersection of Art and Technology. The images, the art forms and the written content of my collection are a gestalt meant to move people through the inner and outer terrains of our minds, emotions and collective eXperiences. The drawings I create are paper, ink and pencil. The originals are left intact, but they are captured digitally and the designs are rendered in VR, AR, 3D and ultimately NFT’d as a one of a kind Digital Collectible as well as framed art, greeting cards, home goods and prints of any size. The subject matter comes from popular culture, news, media and entertainment. The thought process behind each drawing is based in Jungian psychology using images, words and archetypes to represent universal patterns and innate wisdom. Our technology is based on Buckminster Fuller’s work of sacred geometry as well as Game Theory to bring people together for more open conversations, deeper meaning and better understanding of our similarities rather than our differences.
Corona of Creation
This is the prize that can be extracted from these PrecariUS times. With everyone in the world sent to iSOULation, there is a great potential for people to spend time going deeper into their own meditation, through opening up your Crown to the higher dimensions.
Metaburn Jane
The freedom we eXperience when come together to create and enjoy and express ourselves has transformed the hearts and minds of millions around the world and with the global pandemic, we got the opportunity to create the PercariUS Times in Virtual Burning Man, which is an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance. Here I am as an avatar inviting you to come in and be part of the conversation.
Dream Time
For people who want more out of themselves and see greatness in people all around them, this is a call to rise up and go beyond the reptilian world, beyond our own hopes and dreams and reach out to the Source. Time to be better than we could ever imagine.
Jai Hudes
I am playing a number of roles as Chief Creator, Functional Futurist and Visionary Founder of eXperience Technologies. I have been authoring and Inventing X—the Game™ platform since 1980. (In this lifetime!)
As the longest term silicon Valley start-up, over the decades, I have produced guidebooks, promotional maps, software, websites, apps and virtual reality; and as eXecutive Producer of a number of community-wide engagement projects, for the Town of Los Gatos, City of San Jose and throughout the State of California; “The Game” is a culmination of all these elements being integrated into this holistic system to represent “the best of the world,” with tools and processes to support self-actualization, community building and legacy.
This all leads up to the now, amidst our 2020-22 Game plan for implementation of this infinite game to the world. It is a definitive “art meets technology” play and a way to co-create a better world. Especially in these “PrecariUs Times”! Which is the title of our present exhibit at Sparrow ArtSpace. More than an exhibit we create “sacred spaces” for people to drop into a deeper place to eXplore Consciousness...and our Self!
This is also the launch of the 8th generation Gameboard called, “CoOpoly” & 6th gen of our XtheGame cards. For the first time, we will offer a way to empower anyone to create their own life scenario cards, challenge cards and relationship cards.
And as we unveil our Calgary Xperience project, opening the 1st official neighbourhood Timecapsule portals here in Bridgeland; With Sparrow ArtSpace Xperience as the first “outpost” here in Canada to offer this vision of personally & collectively “building a better future n0w!”
Come have an Xperience with us and learn how you can “Play It Forward...”
Playify Reality
Some think “life is a game...” my eXperience is that to complete this adage you need to add, “life is a play!”
Playification 1.0 (aka. Gamification 3.0) are processes and tools designed to “Inspire and demonstrate healthy relationships on personal, interpersonal and universal levels.”
As simple as “Rock, Paper, Scissors” & as complex as multiDimensional “Chess” meets Infinite “Leela.” Imagine, the evolution of Monopoly into a celebration of humanity in what we call, “CoOpol.”
Ready to “Play it forward?!”
Cosmic CoOpoly (generation 8 Gameboard circa 2020)
XtheGame is more than a game, it’s a powerful communications and relationship tool that brings people to deeper levels of understanding.
Xperience is @ the Innersection of Art meets Technology; As we become a more universal species, especially needed in these PrecariUS Times.
Imagine the Power of 10 (X) zooming down from the furthest reaches...to the deepest quantum levels.
Based on our Intentionality, triangulating Life (aka. Consciousness) and all its infinite scenarios, weaving our Challenges and Relationships to bring order out of chaos.
True, “Innovation on demand!”
MyX Timecapsule
The “mX Timecapsule” officially launched in the year 2000, as a timely thought eXperiment as an antidote To counteract the Y2K madness in Silicon Valley.
A sci-fi backstory ensued to “create a quantum bridge at the dawn of the 21st century to reach the 31st century... to build a better future, now!
This “DreaMyth Reality” has continued to grow and morph with its mission to evolve the timeline for the better.
As a legacy device, this is a globsl invitation to find ourselves and thereby find humanity in a née light. As a grand crowdsourcing demonstration, the game is being upgraded to our 2020+ edition, where everyone is invited to add their impressions as part of a greater collective Consciousness.
Portals of X is the implementation of coCreating a better world. A universal platform fractalized into 4 Gateways to the Xperience, Community, Wellness, Business (or BeIsness) and Education.
What is your part in this great Transformation Play?