Contributors
Ido Hartogsohn, founder and editor in chief of the DPV, is a consciousness entrepreneur of electro-jewish descent. He has worked as Journalist for major Israeli newspapers and magazines such as Haaretz, Maariv, NRG, Ynet and Nana. In 2009 he published the book “Technomysticism: Consciousness in the Age of Technology” (Hebrew)which explored the interaction between technology, psychedelics and consciousness. Hartogsohn has also been the originator of a number of psychedelic activism projects such as The Intergalactic Masters Course and the Geula Party.
Michal Vexler (Vexyvex), former editor in chief of the DPV, studied visual communication at Bezalel Academy of Art And Design and Hermeneutics and Culture at Bar-Ilan University. Teaches typography and history of design in several colleges in israel. Lives in Tel-Aviv, but her mind travels.
Samas, settled in Lyon (France) in 1994 after completing a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and a brief career in a Neuroscience and Sensory System Laboratory at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. He quit his work in the scientific lab in 2007. Since then, he settled in several artistic labs and artistic performance experiences. He has been engaged with screen process, drawing and photography where he focused on fractals and organic mandalas, but also in video editing and Live Video. He is part of the multidisciplinary collective Ultimaya which, following the inspiration of several groundbreaking figures of the field (for example “I am a strange loop” by Douglas Hofstadter) is dedicated to exploring the phenomenon of consciousness through visual feedback and its variation: …Strange loops… Observe the Observer…
Aleksander Marcic (7eit) was born in Aachen, Germany in 1981, close to the border of the Netherlands and Belgium. Since 2002 he is studying the Science of Theater, Film and Television, Historical Information Science and Philosophy in Cologne. He has focused on the philospophy of Deleuze, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Benjamin, Bergson and Adorno. Lately he is looking a lot into his books by Hegel, Kant, Leibniz and Spinoza trying to figure out what got lost in the conflicts of materialism and idealism and should be remembered in the discussion of mediascience. He enjoys a good cup of coffee, plays videogames and listens to music… a lot.
Boaz Yaniv, is a poet and one of the editors of “Daka-Journal for poetry and criticism”. He is a psychonaut who tries to transform the other world’s knowledge into social and political activism. Currently writing from Tel-Aviv. After studying Literature and Linguistics in Ben-Gurion university (which is in the south of Israel), he chose life over academics. He believes that even though psycho active substances show you a quick way to the other worlds there are many other ways to get there, and in fact the other worlds are always present around us.
Holographic Elf, is a fractal explorer from the concrete forests of Finland. Occult practice is vital to him, but due to the Finnish tradition having died long ago, he has had to turn to foreign ones, such as Christianity and even tantric yoga. He has a never ending curiosity for little-known subjects like the use of psychedelics throughout the history of Christianity and the cultivation of sexual energy as spiritual practice.
The Elf has a keen eye on animators, who have woven psychedelic magic into their films and has a lot of material to post, although it might not always be the healthiest sort. Be vigilant and enjoy the endless holographic archives of the Elf-world.
Robert L.J. Kerns (Clearfield) is from the U.S. east coast and is interested in the ability of music and video to download transcendent experience into the 3-dimensional sensorium.
