ether_beta_01 is a sleepwalk through the liminal dream of 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺

A visual essay//A soft interface// A partial download of a para-spiritual operating system.

There is no story. The words are invisible until you have eyes to see. This book drifts It glitches_It flickers in and out of legibility - between image and text, signal and static.

Welcome to the hover_state: a suspended zone of pixelated bliss, platform residue, and synthetic esoteric fragments.

To enter ethereality you don’t need to believe anything

𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆

Identity here is soft-coded. {time stutters meaning loops text is invisible}

ether_beta_01 is not a simulation Ethereality is real and this is its ambient map. Release to Enter

𓆩⟡𓆪

Ruby Bailey is a multimedia artist exploring digital aesthetics, technofetishism, and the structures of technologically mediated experience. Working across film, digital media, sculpture, and installation, her practice considers how the language and visual logic of the internet shape perception, presence, and disappearance. She zooms in on the empty limbo {gaussian} blur between the Physical and Virtual, constructing environments that hover between synthetic clarity and ambient erosion. Her work moves between Loobtopia—a hyper-curated space of visual excess and performative surface—and Ethereality, a posthuman, limbo-like sublime where the body dissipates and meaning becomes atmospheric. Through avatars, compressed imagery, and fragmented visual languages, Bailey renders affect as spatial condition—detached, euphoric, and eerily timeless. She has exhibited internationally, including in London, Berlin, Dubai, New York, and Hong Kong.

Danielle Paterson is a curator, advisor and researcher interested in tracking our social adaptation to a rapidly evolving, technology-driven future. With a background spanning the art market, archives, and social research, Danielle’s practice examines subcultures, cyber anthropology, and the relationship between self-presentation and preservation. She’s drawn to world-builders and transient creators who navigate subcultures, digital mythologies, and spiritual frameworks to envision alternate realities and collective futures.