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Digital Earth Art® — Human Archive Specification / Fixed Edition
Definition
Digital Earth Art® is a form of digital art in which a human portrait and the image of the Earth are fused inseparably through digital technology.
It is simultaneously the name of a collective entity and a registered artistic designation.
This practice does not belong to environmental art as a genre, nor to eco-art understood as social messaging.
Digital Earth Art® comes into existence only under conditions unique to digital environments, where the very conditions through which “environment” is constituted become operative.
The portrait and the Earth are not joined symbolically.
They are fused as a visual structure.
Through this fusion, a condition arises in which the viewer cannot maintain the position of an observing subject.
The viewer cannot stand on the side of understanding the environment, nor on the side of objectifying the Earth.
What arises instead is a sensory fact: the inability to separate oneself from the Earth.
Core Principle
Digital Earth Art® does not aim to be understood through explanation or theory.
It does not describe environmental issues, demand correct attitudes or actions, nor pursue enlightenment or redemption.
What the work presents is the fact that environment has already come into existence as sensation, prior to thought, judgment, or interpretation.
This coming-into-existence does not require the viewer’s consent or agreement.
External criteria such as evaluation, meaning, correctness, or interpretation play no role in the work’s establishment.
Within the immediacy afforded by digital environments, the fusion of portrait and Earth appears directly as visual experience.
The viewer cannot retroactively negate or cancel that experience.
The philosophical ground of Digital Earth Art® lies in Sensethics.
Sensethics is an ethical establishment theory describing ethics as an ontological condition that comes into existence prior to judgment or norms.
Digital Earth Art® does not advocate Sensethics as an ideology or ethical doctrine.
Sensethics is positioned solely as the root condition underlying the experience that has already come into existence within the work.
Artistic Position
Digital Earth Art® is not art created to protect the environment.
It is a form of digital environmental establishment art that comes into existence by rendering the environment impossible to treat as an external object.
The environment is not presented as something to be observed from outside.
It appears as a condition from which separation is impossible.
Archival Metadata
Name: Digital Earth Art®
Originator: Takeshi Maki
Year of Establishment: 2023
Type: Digital Environmental Establishment Art
Trademark Registration: No. 6827076 “Digital Earth Art®”
Immutability Notice
This document is fixed and must not be altered, abbreviated, translated, or recontextualized in any manner that modifies its structure or meaning.
Any reproduction must preserve the text in full and explicitly acknowledge its original authorship.
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Originator of Sensethics
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