Hyper-reality

What is hyper-reality?

Art dictionaries say hyper-realism, superrealism, photorealism. Too good to be true. Truer than life. "High-fidelity realism", "Minute and impersonal exactitude".

Simulation of reality, something 'too real', so it no longer is reality/ Ideal? Ideal form?

(Wiki):
"Hyperreality is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies. Hyperreality is a way of characterising what our consciousness defines as 'real' in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter an original event of experience."

Jean Baudrillard
Albert Borgmann
Daniel Boorstin
Umberto Eco

"The simulation of something which never really existed"
-Jean Baudrillard

"The authentic fake"
-Umberto Eco

"The virtual irreality"
-Pater Sparrow

-Reality
-Simulation
-Copy
-Consciousness
-'Real', defining what is 'real'.


Simulacrum
"A term from Greek Platonic philosophy that meant a copy of a copy of an ideal form. In postmodernist thought, particularly through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Jean Baudrillard, the term has been revived in the context of arguments about the relationship between an original work of art and its replication. For Baudrillard the simulacrumm takes precedence over the origical, with the effect that the original is no longer relevant."

-(Wilson, S. Lack, J. (2008) The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms. London: Tate Publishing)

How does hyperreality relate to my practice?

Discussing memory, places from memory in an idealistic way.
Recreating something from memory...
Romanticizing?? Making something as real that is too perfect.... Complete... to be real.
Lying. Romanticizing.
Exploring my mind... place through my mind.
Presenting something as truth that is takes from memory, or souvenirs...

Lies, makebelieve
Replaces truth.