Art used to fill the senses. In the village, you carved wood, you felt the grain and edge, and smelled the wood, and heard its crack and yawl. You smelled the food you cooked, you heard what you were creating, dipping, painting, playing.
Now, in the city "modern" art is in a sealed box. It is on the wall, walled off. The orchestra is "on stage" or in a pit. No interaction. The audience is a specialty.
In the future, as we are individualizing and interacting with art again by computers, the media are going to become MORE "traditional" in the sense that they will fill the senses once again. Pieces will smoke, smell, and sound you in the lobby, the interactive hallway, the kitchen midden of our lives. The courtyard of the future, still within cities, still urbanic, will be richer. Art will fill the senses, again.
LIST OF THINGS TO INCLUDE:
ReplyDelete1-- Singularity
2-- Convergence Culture
3-- SMI2LE (Leary)
Migration
Intelligence
Longevity
4-- Myth (calamity, loneliness)
5-- ...and falling upon the sword (from rescue, to revenge, retaliation, reproach, reprisal, and finally, to the ultimate act of humanity, restraint) of Religion.
WYNTON MARSALIS. Classic artist. His ability to find ways beyond the natural plateaus of mere talent, amaze me. Here is the Trumpet. Mastery of physics -- a vibrating embrouchure in a tube he invented -- which results in magic.
ReplyDeleteCITIES AS A FAILURE OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE FACE OF MIGRATION. Design is not a solution to pollution, and is not sufficient in the face of urbanization. Somehow, we are only able to describe problems -- after they are manifest and long after they can be "solved". The City is an example. It has been an unpleasant cesspool for millenia, and it is now hitting new heights of worse. Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, Mexico City, and about 20 cities each in China and India respectively, cannot be tamed by any means. This years' Architecture Biennale in Venice presented a picture of metastasizing megalopoli on a scale beyond any possible engagement or redemption.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to see Arcosanti cities showing an understanding of migration -- WHY people move, and who they are. Unlike the migration of people into suburbia which is largely voluntary, and is almost always into "ranch style" individual homes, no matter what part of the planet it occurs, the flight into mega-cities is involuntary. It is desparate, and the migrants are hungry, jobless, and enslaved by their conditions. Architecture has not yet risen from this pyre of hopelessness.