Virtual Residency Day, Thirty-Two
Two days after the last virtual concert, we are just beginning to address questions that arose as a result.
How to make international access simple for non-English speakers.
Creating a social status place for younger people comparable to mySpace
Creating a social comfort zone for older users, used to seeing friends face to face at a conventional concert
These are interesting ecological art problems about community interaction to try to solve.
It relates to economic questions being debated now at the Harvard Business School: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/cgi-bin/print. They define these questions as the distinction between the economics of Scarcity vs the economics of Abundance. In that discussion, the distinction is also amde between point source of profit, as the economics of abundance presumes all information is equally available at all times.
If such theories are taken to the ultimate paradigmatic trajectory and applied to ecological issues, that implies there are energy solutions that will address global warming.
Meanwhile, on my island, yesterday, as I deadheaded lilies, a hummingbird wavered in the air mere inches from my head. Nature blessed and privileged me.
Today, in the evening, I attended a memorial for an elderly lady who had spent part of her last years on this island, where her granddaughter lives. The rest of the time, a life long New Orleans resident, she spent there, where she was caught in the aftermath of the hurricance. She did not die there, but in the chaos afterwards, despite ample means and a loving family rushing to her side, circumstances there compromised her health. Until her family could reach her, she had spent some time in a shelter. There, lying on an air mattress alongside the Chief of Police after she was evacuated, she caught a chill. She died within a year. To the end, she was a smiling social doyenne but she was also a casualty of global warming. Privilege did not spare her.
It will not spare me or the hummingbird. It has been a bad year for lobsters. Some speculate that they are migrating North from here because the waters are too warm. Nothing will be spared by global warming.
What started me on the work of this blog, the Virtual Residency and now the Virtual Concert series, was my response to Katrina last year. It continues to be my obsession.
As Anke Mellin put it today in response to the work I am continuing, "I am very interested in this kind of project and want to develop something that allows creating/working/communicating within the arts but does not harm the global condition." If we can design solutions that do no harm, we may also live in a world of abundance for all.
How to make international access simple for non-English speakers.
Creating a social status place for younger people comparable to mySpace
Creating a social comfort zone for older users, used to seeing friends face to face at a conventional concert
These are interesting ecological art problems about community interaction to try to solve.
It relates to economic questions being debated now at the Harvard Business School: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/cgi-bin/print. They define these questions as the distinction between the economics of Scarcity vs the economics of Abundance. In that discussion, the distinction is also amde between point source of profit, as the economics of abundance presumes all information is equally available at all times.
If such theories are taken to the ultimate paradigmatic trajectory and applied to ecological issues, that implies there are energy solutions that will address global warming.
Meanwhile, on my island, yesterday, as I deadheaded lilies, a hummingbird wavered in the air mere inches from my head. Nature blessed and privileged me.
Today, in the evening, I attended a memorial for an elderly lady who had spent part of her last years on this island, where her granddaughter lives. The rest of the time, a life long New Orleans resident, she spent there, where she was caught in the aftermath of the hurricance. She did not die there, but in the chaos afterwards, despite ample means and a loving family rushing to her side, circumstances there compromised her health. Until her family could reach her, she had spent some time in a shelter. There, lying on an air mattress alongside the Chief of Police after she was evacuated, she caught a chill. She died within a year. To the end, she was a smiling social doyenne but she was also a casualty of global warming. Privilege did not spare her.
It will not spare me or the hummingbird. It has been a bad year for lobsters. Some speculate that they are migrating North from here because the waters are too warm. Nothing will be spared by global warming.
What started me on the work of this blog, the Virtual Residency and now the Virtual Concert series, was my response to Katrina last year. It continues to be my obsession.
As Anke Mellin put it today in response to the work I am continuing, "I am very interested in this kind of project and want to develop something that allows creating/working/communicating within the arts but does not harm the global condition." If we can design solutions that do no harm, we may also live in a world of abundance for all.
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