"...the sensation is disorienting, until you forget about the physical space and your corporeal realm. Hidden objects take on a life of their own with uncanny detail applied to every surface, and it feels as though rooms shift in and out of perspective at hyper speed. Joining in and witnessing not only the virtual space but the pageantry involved becomes a sacro-religious occasion, so that everyone can encounter epistemological transcendence of the physical realm." - Wyatt Schaffner, local hippy

Special Thanks: Caitlin King (CK), Grace Amber, Cary Hull, Scott Mayoral, Dave Mosier, Chuck Copenspire, Michelle Mckay, Michelle Green, Seanna Musgrave, Gary Tyler, Damon Pidhajecky.

Cast: Caitlin King, Matt Henderson, Grace Amber, Father Ryan Carlile, Suzanne Stone, Chris Spencer, Kent Bye, Keelin B Mayer, Biz, Marika Shimkus, Rose Dixon, Charlie Bolton, Robin Wiesner, Colin Blanton, Tanner Noykoa, Chris Slay, Diana Ramos, Nico Daunt, Nate Klett, Nick Bindeman, Wyatt Schaffner.

Music: Mike Erwin, Ant'lrd, Entity, Sean Pierce, Justice Miracle, Ian Wieland + Chris Farstad

NTVTY VII "liminal passage" once again combined digital and archaic forms, delving further into virtuality with Ashby Collinson performing 'Mother of the Void" into a motion-capture system broadcast in simultaneity. Caitlin King (CK/Numbskull) created an altar and offered a solemn communal ritual-practice to honor the dual nature of fire and set intentions for illumination, inspiration, and vigilance in the new year. She sang her song 'The Blue and Gray', serenading an intimate crowd of first arrivers.

Visitors explored co-presence within a networked virtual reality scene created by Matt Henderson, Stephanie Mendoza, Scott Mayoral, and Sonya Neunzert, before settling down for a lived-scored mocap performance by "television artist", Ashby Collinson.

Jack Gilbert unleashed invigorating verse, from his stream of consciousness:

"In a timeless realm, where the flame may lean neither toward destruction or creation, sometimes i dwell there... I'm on a formless plane, where the fever has passed, and they say how shall they grow, and they say what shall we know, from a natural enhancement, and the flame breeds and says, the flame breeds and says: 'you must grow again', for positive energy is growth and negative energy is regression, the plants grow with the positive energy of the sun, and die with the negative energy of the cold, and the hot energy says to me 'i do not request eternity, just be with me in this one moment, where we grow together, where everything is complete, when everything is optimized,' it said to me, 'it can only exist for one moment, because perfection is not permitted in this universe of entropy,' and then perfection fell away like a flame, and it said to me, 'i will be back again, in ten thousand years or a hundred thousand, but you should not measure perfection in the time of years,' and at the end, I look again and realize i am really in the middle, there is a measured perfection, just be glad we are not in the dimension where everything stands upon the precipice between destruction and perfection, just live again, if you can, hold up your opposite hand, if you can, what do you look for, what do you require, when everything I look for is nothing, i'm the master of the void and the master of heaven, but then, i meet in the middle and i see the devil, and he says to me, would you like a cup of tea, and then I move on, and then I see the number, it is only one, and i know that each of you are only one, and the connection is limited, but connect tonight and never fight (i know you don't have to) and i see you, when the mirror reflects upon itself, the infinities they all fall, like little flecks of stardust, or little flecks of glitter, they're falling down and tinkling in the psychic litter, i see them but I told them i will deal with what I have, and then they moved on, and they told me i was right, it really wasn't anything, it really wasn't what i was looking for, but of course, in a real world, imperfection is a true perfection, just embrace that, look at the reflection and know that the refraction of light has deformed you, but be glad for it, be glad for all things, be glad for love, be glad for fire even though it is the most opposite of things. thank you, my very best wishes follow you into the ether."

Special Thanks: Ashby Collinson, Caitlin King, Jack Gilbert, Stephanie Mendoza, Sonya Neunzert, Scott Mayoral, Robin Wiesner, Seanna Musgrave

Music: Elrond, Pulse Emitter, Warren Lee, Dean Leninger