STHENO, or the last frontier
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Sthéno, or the last frontier
Version 5.
06/05/2001
First Award of the 2002Digital Art Awards Laurence Gartel
"Life does not exist, it is informed matter."
life is a complex informational entity that uses materials to spread, survive, become more complex, life is the negative entropy fighting against the laws of thermodynamics.

The Legend.
Stheno was one of the three gorgones sisters of Greek mythology. Medusa, the famest one who was decapitated by Perseus, was the gorgon of intellectual perversion.
Euryale was the gorgon of sexual perversion and Stheno the gorgon of social perversion.

«The Last Frontier» is the Space. It is the last border met by the «Life» in her mysterious quest to the macrocosm, started out several million years ago.
After a myriad of experiments and aborted attempts to escape from the unavoidable coming destruction of the solar system, Life has elaborated a complex ship to continue her travel :
Mankind.

The dinosaurs, too big and too heavy died out, unable to draw up their long neck above the clouds. The lazy hilarious dolphins and the gigantic whales, frightened by the task, returned to ocean.

So the last invention of «Life», Mankind, is invested of this Graal to conquer : ...Universe...
But, to be able to cross the space frontier and to survive in the borders of galaxy, Men will have to change themselves, like the first aquatic animals changed to be able to evolve/move on the continents.
This Man's body and spirit transformation is also the last «border» to overstep.

And if the man fail in this task, he will be replaced because «Life» time is getting short before the death of the sun.
Yann Minh.

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