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My cosmology is not just a material phenomenon, but includes me as an existing cultural being acting out the role of an independent wizard-creator-of-reality. The "cultural engineering" required reached an important stage in 1990 when the Prime Minister appointed me official Wizard of New Zealand. It is ultimately a subjective and interactive "meta-narrative". It is like a modern role-playing game except that it does not take place in segregated playtime in a segregated play-space but in real historical time and space. The art work is "in process" and would only be completed should I ascend/levitate out of my own creation or should a more powerful wizard be able to include my cosmology, including my place in it, as a special case of his or her own. I also assume that my art work would self destruct should I die, undergo a religious conversion, or fall under the benevolent or malevolent emotional "spell" of a woman. The art work is global and all inclusive through my web-site in the world wide web together with e-mail interaction. It is an English art work, not only because English is the language of the net and language is a major determinant of conceptualisation, but because I accept the fact that I am an historical being embedded in that particular culture and not an objective, superhuman observer.
*The 8 ft high Icon with the flashing mouse was created by pupils at Hornby High School in Christchurch under the supervision of Henry Sunderland, part-time wizard and gnomeologist. Thankyou Jessica Seil (Australia), Hoda Selim (Egypt), Natasha van der Woude (Holland), Haruo Adachi (Japan), Susan Meyer ( New Zealand), and Janet Wang (Taiwan). The figure is an iconic conflation of religious revelation, rational enlightenment and self-deflating exhibitionism. The date on the tablets is the day that 49 wizards came out of the Time Tunnel at Mt Cavendish to officially launch my web-site.
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I am pioneering the use of the Internet as a postmodern, conceptual, art form. It began twenty-five years ago when I designed an aesthetic universe which includes modern physical cosmology as a special case of my own.