Mindleaping Through the Metaverse

"Workshops in Mind-Leaping: Developing Creativity for the Electronic Age" were developed at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies by Mel and Ari Alexenberg, a father and son creative collaboration, in 1985. 

MARTE Museum of Art of El Salvador is 7,611 miles from Jerusalem, Israel; 36 miles from Jerusalén, El Salvador; or 0 miles via The Cloud

Jerusalén is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador with a population of 3,000. It was founded by the Cordova family that had moved to El Salvador in the mid 1700's. They were Sephardi Jews who were expelled from Spain. 

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele attended the 32nd International Mayors Conference in Jerusalem, Israel, in February 2018 when he was mayor of San Salvador. He prayed at the Western Wall and revealed that his wife's grandfather was a Sephardic Jew.

First Nation to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender 

President Bukele introduced a bill to the Legislative Assembly in June 2021 to make El Salvador the first nation making bitcoin legal tender. Athena Bitcoin stated that it intended to invest one million dollars into installing 1,500 cryptocurrency ATM’s that would be able to exchange the US Dollar for bitcoin, or vice versa. On 6 September 2021, Bukele announced that the Salvadoran government had bought its first 400 bitcoins. The following day, the Bitcoin Law came into effect, making bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador.

In November 2021, Bukele announced that he planned to build the world's first bitcoin city in the southeastern region of La Union at the base of the Conchagua Volcano, which would use geothermal energy generated by the volcano to power bitcoin mining. 

Rembrandt Cyberangel Flight from Israel to El Salvador

The image above shows the virtual flight of Rembrandt inspired cyberangels from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to the MARTE Museum of Art of El Salvador. It is a digital expression of the biblical passage of angels in Jacob’s dream ascending from the Land of Israel and going down throughout the world bringing messages of peace.

“A ladder was standing on the ground, and its top reached up toward heaven, and angels were going up and down on it.”(Genesis 28:12)

The cyberangels emerge from the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum where the oldest manuscripts of the Bible are housed and fly to El Salvador. It is based upon a digital serigraph created in 1987 by the artist Mel Alexenberg at the Israel Museum affiliated printmaking center in Jerusalem that shows Rembrandt cyberangels going up from a NASA satellite image of the Land of Israel.

From Cyberart to Cryptoart

It would be an appropriate expression of El Salavador being the world leader in making cryptocurrency legal tender to transform Alexenberg’s pioneering cyberart into cryptoart as the first NFT in an art museum collection,