Information Drug Enforcement Administrations (iDEA")
iDEA
Digital Goddess of Digital Life and Digital Death
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Digital Crematorium
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Digital Crematorium
Project Summary
An interactive light sculpture with a digital crematorium. It allows all Burners to express themselves and find each other online but punishes those who waste their time aimlessly. The goddess invites participants to undergo a ritual of instant
digital death and issues certificates of rebirth.
An interactive light sculpture with a digital crematorium. It allows all Burners to express themselves and find each other online but punishes those who waste their time aimlessly. The goddess invites participants to undergo a ritual of instant
digital death and issues certificates of rebirth.
Physical Description
The monument is a polygonal sculpture of a slender female figure with raised wings instead of arms. It is made of stainless-steel tubes with an outer diameter of 1.97 inches and wall thickness from 0.24 to 0.12 inches, welded into a rigid spatial truss. A glowing energy symbol is placed in the center of the chest. Material: fiberglass.
Mass and dimensions sculpture:
Height 59 ft, Diameter 18 ft, Weight up to 8,800 lb.
The sculpture stands on a steel pedestal clad in fiberglass; the pedestal weighs about 2,200 lb and is anchored to the playa with geoscrews for safety. Inside are automated coffin-shaped doors, coffin-shaped studio lighting, an audio system, a camera, Starlink connectivity, and AI control. A laser system makes the sculpture visible from long distances.
Physical Dimensions:
The total height is 59 ft, and the diameter is 18 ft.
The monument is a polygonal sculpture of a slender female figure with raised wings instead of arms. It is made of stainless-steel tubes with an outer diameter of 1.97 inches and wall thickness from 0.24 to 0.12 inches, welded into a rigid spatial truss. A glowing energy symbol is placed in the center of the chest. Material: fiberglass.
Mass and dimensions sculpture:
Height 59 ft, Diameter 18 ft, Weight up to 8,800 lb.
The sculpture stands on a steel pedestal clad in fiberglass; the pedestal weighs about 2,200 lb and is anchored to the playa with geoscrews for safety. Inside are automated coffin-shaped doors, coffin-shaped studio lighting, an audio system, a camera, Starlink connectivity, and AI control. A laser system makes the sculpture visible from long distances.
Physical Dimensions:
The total height is 59 ft, and the diameter is 18 ft.
Visualization
Interactivity
The sculpture's form makes it visible from afar both day and night, enhanced by light. A Burner receives 12 minutes of Wi-Fi with a short instruction about the ritual and a notice of recording. Entering, they stand on an illuminated coffin-shaped platform. The doors close automatically, the light goes out, music plays, questions appear, a flash imitates fire and takes a photo. The door opens, the participant scans a barcode and receives a certificate of digital death and rebirth.
The sculpture's form makes it visible from afar both day and night, enhanced by light. A Burner receives 12 minutes of Wi-Fi with a short instruction about the ritual and a notice of recording. Entering, they stand on an illuminated coffin-shaped platform. The doors close automatically, the light goes out, music plays, questions appear, a flash imitates fire and takes a photo. The door opens, the participant scans a barcode and receives a certificate of digital death and rebirth.
Philosophy
IDEA is a technological goddess: I means technology, DEA means deity, merging into a symbol of the future. The TH sign marks the threshold—the boundary of death and rebirth. Her name unites opposites, speaking of creation and destruction.
iDea is the axis of the world: alluring, motivating, generating, a symbol of energy and potential. The glowing sign in her chest unites masculine and feminine, penetration and conception, the spark of creation and binary code. She is a goddess of action, giving excess energy for growth, yet also a cold steel network dangerous to those who get rapped in it.
Above the portal shines Campbell's quote: "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." All myths point to the same path of trials: first becoming someone, then becoming yourself again. Entering the symbolic cave and stepping onto the pedestal, we become monuments to ourselves and remember who
we are, where we are going, and why.
IDEA is a technological goddess: I means technology, DEA means deity, merging into a symbol of the future. The TH sign marks the threshold—the boundary of death and rebirth. Her name unites opposites, speaking of creation and destruction.
iDea is the axis of the world: alluring, motivating, generating, a symbol of energy and potential. The glowing sign in her chest unites masculine and feminine, penetration and conception, the spark of creation and binary code. She is a goddess of action, giving excess energy for growth, yet also a cold steel network dangerous to those who get rapped in it.
Above the portal shines Campbell's quote: "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." All myths point to the same path of trials: first becoming someone, then becoming yourself again. Entering the symbolic cave and stepping onto the pedestal, we become monuments to ourselves and remember who
we are, where we are going, and why.
