VIrtual Residency Day Thirty, Second Concert

I have just completed the second of three Virtual Concerts on TalkShoe.com. It is past midnight. Each event was 16 hours long. There were and remain many technical issues to resolve before the final concert, at the end of September. I know several artists from Korea tried to log in without any success. I shall have to track down what happened and what may be done for the next event. Tonight, I am too exhausted to think or at least to write out those thoughts I do have.

I can see, however, that weaning us all from what is familiar is harder than I thought. Artists, like everyone else, as Anke Mellin wrote me, want the cultural experience of being in situ to create work rather than remote control creation. Truth is, that is the ideal.

The other truth is that in today's world of global warming, unless something dramatically changes, we may have to consider relinquishing that option for a time. Physical travel of all kinds, may need to take a back seat to sophisticated virtual travel unless we can solve the problem of emissions.

Surgery is often performed now with remote virtual guidance. Perhaps many other tasks will come to follow that lead.