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Reality + Surrealism = New Realism. Today ́s world is surreal as real.

If we accept this concept as true, which we can explain through some of the papers written on new reality, such as those by Philosophers, Scientist, Neurosciences, Physicist, and Noetic Sciences, surrealism and digital images are true and in that sense my interest is to study how surrealistic art is or will have a voice in today ́s world, even if we are going through an era of transition.

Physicist has demonstrated a connection between the observer and artwork in similar terms. While modernity has adopted a dualistic stance towards the nature of reality, concerning the relation between mind and body, transformation envisioned by the new paradigm literature includes recognition of the underlying unity of all things and the inseparability of our inner and outer worlds ( Lemkow, 1990; Woodhouse 1996). This is generating a critical change in the dominant scientific paradigm towards a worldview in which consciousness is viewed as “casual”.

(Harman 1998:30) explains that this perspective “find the ultimate stuff of the universe to be consciousness. Mind (or consciousness, or spirit) is primary, and matter-energy arises in some sense out of the mind. The physical world is supposed to be to the greater mind as a dream image is to the individual mind. Ultimately the reality behind the phenomenal world is contacted, not through the physical senses, but through deep intuition. Consciousness is not the end –product of material evolution; rather, consciousness was here first”.
This is in line with the concept of philosopher David Chalmers who explains his concept of new reality in his book Reality + , his point of view is that your reality is real for you even if you are supposed to be living in a world that seems virtual to me and the experience that you live in that virtual scenario is as real as the reality we all can conceive. This happens because your conscious and emotions accept that, as real. Even more how do we know that the world is not a virtual place manipulated from outer energies?

Around 1996 when photography changed from analog to digital, I realize that a new world had been born. The manipulation of bits let you change the “real image” to an equally “new real image”. I started to learn the new possibilities of what could be done on the screen. This new image, which is a virtual thing, could be printed and become a real object. Also, the digital image can be a real thing available for collectors and people on the go. (Nft`s) Art is the language of feelings and consciousness, so surrealism has a real status as much as any other form of art.

I believe that there are several kinds of realities; there are personal realities and collective realities, collective realities are those realities that we can touch (nature, buildings, objects, etc.) and other such as political realities, are those made by governments to improve people's life. Also social media is a new reality in communication. Personal reality is the reality that is part of your consciousness, feelings, dreams, ideas; these, are thoughts as if they were your own reality that are different from others. In my own reality, surrealist art is part of my self that can become a collective reality when is exposed to the public.