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There are so many roads… so many roads to ease my soul. This road leads to the SOMA Fields. A place where emotions and ideas are planted and grown in preparation for the constant harvest.

Is technology our SOMA? Are we who wield it the high-priests of our digital society? Are we in danger of being politicized out of existence? Will the recipe be lost once more or will all of society one day have equal access to the fields?

These are some of the questions that drive this experimental art project. Bridging the gaps between our physical reality and simulacra; wired to the world via the internet and to the local community via gallery spaces, "SOMA Fields" is the first of three interconnected installations. Each contributing to a public interactive art project that will likely raise more questions than it answers.

The SOMA installations are being designed and coded by Jose R. Rodriguez over the next 18 months and be shown both individually and together at the gallery SP@CE224 in Buffalo, NY as well as other venues. Jose is most well known in the art and design world for his work on TypeIsArt a public interactive art project that explores the various aspects of the letterforms of our alphabet when reconfigured as art and design objects. TypeIsArt was shown in conjunction with TypeCon in 2008 at the gallery SP@CE224 in Buffalo, NY.