Dave Greber Digital Art

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CyOracle Tarot v.1.0

The Knight of Smart-Swords in the CyOracle Tarot Deck. 2023

The CyOracle Tarot deck combines ancient and modern symbolism to offer insight and guidance for navigating the digital age. Each card uses symbols from recent technological products to correspond to traditional Tarot symbols, creating a unique blend of ancient and futuristic imagery. Despite the use of modern technology-related symbols, the cards themselves have an ancient and eternal appearance, adding a sense of timelessness to the deck. CyOracle can encourage us to question our assumptions and perceptions, and to consider the impact of technology on our lives and society as a whole.

Major Arcana, XIV “3D Organ printing”, in the CyOracle Tarot Deck. 2023

back image of CyOracle Tarot deck

This deck of Tarot cards uses symbols from concepts or products that have only been invented in the past few years. Super-ultra-contemporary deck. I had chat-gpt generate analogs of all of the traditional archetypes. They are all sort of capitalist tech creations which are like digital or VR versions of inventions from the 20th century.

For the images I tried to make representations of the contemporary interpretations that were kind of primitive in materials. So scratched into sand, mud, dirt… while the major arcana are more a little more sophisticated, carved from stone and some mystery material.


I also made a web app that you you can try the deck out for yourself here:

CyOracle Tarot

screenshots below from the website