Æther: The Art Journal

Some last words

Hi

It’s me Will again, from Art Worldbuilding. We have come to an end with the arduous but rejoicing campaign for Æther: The Art Journal and whether you were a supporter, collaborator, sponsor, participated on the give-away or just watched the project go I would like to tell you. Thanks.

Thank you for being there all along following up with Art Worldbuilding and it’s volatile participants in the imagination of this incredible magazine that Æther and the Extra issue were.

The production of the project was slower than expected but successful and reached this point —even though the magazine will not be able to become a continuated series— we have good news.

Due to the high demanding visual and formatting qualities of the magazine the content is now only available on Amazon as an e-book for those who missed the Kickstarter launch. Æther: The Extra nonetheless, is actually available for print on demand and so, you as part of Art Worldbuilding whether you follow us or collaborated can get a copy for yourself or your friends and read the unedited articles from those who knew they had something to say.

And we have more! Besides the closure of this project, we are planning to begin a monthly publication of the transcribed interviews for The Great Game in trying to collectively answer the question:

“What happens if we interpret our life experience as if it was a game?”

In this interviews we will be listening to authors, artists and other natural philosophers from all walks of life and various disciplines, answering this expanded question while they share personal insights and the things they learned for each of their chosen paths.

In order to do this we are stablishing our platform on Substack where you will be able to see the content of the last published interview. And as Art Worldbuilding could not be without you —and because you have been with the project since it’s inception— we are offering for a month exclussively a 80% discount for a yearly subscription for you and a friend to be able to access all the archive of this independent artistic research project on the philosophy of game design and take part on it by commenting in the post’s open discussion.

Throughout the project we will join controlled chaos, setting ourselves on a dynamic quest for primordial pattern and extract pearls of wisdom here and there that could serve others to also structure their lives in processes of reterritorialisation. We will do this by questioning with care the truth in the liminal fringes to help others attain the psychic agency needed to foster ethical communities. Which we hope to cup with the publication of a well structured methodology.

It has been an absolute pleasure but even more a teaching to get to this point and once again I’d like to thank you for it and hope you stay tuned in the name of The Art Worldbuilders.

I&I,

Will

PD: I would like to say goodbye by sharing this scene that marked me so much back then when I watched La Vita è Bella for the first time: