Proto-Quadrants in Integral Art
"Finally, I have repeatedly argued that [those] interested in art should take an inclusive view of what art is, rather than focusing just on painting and perhaps sculpture, and that they should also try to find ways to take account of the role of the artist, the cultural context, and the artistic sophisication of the viewer, if they aspire to a truly adequate theory."

J.A. Goguen
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, No.8-9, 2000


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My current composition.....
Intention: an authentic integral artifact
Ensemble: a string quartet
Venue: a Boulder or Minneapolis club, and a recording
Interpretation: the sound of human techno
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Dying for Sound



Paul Salamone interviews Matthew Dallman @ The Manifest.
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A-IOS Application - Integral Blues

"Haiku is to Poetry, as Blues is to Music."
- Insomniac Blues



I offer this A-IOS Application - Integral Blues (iBlues) to the



- posted by ~C4Chaos @ 10:52 PM

 
To See A World--Art and the I of the Beholder
by Ken Wilber

It is not the object expressed, but the depth of the subject expressing it, that most defines art. And this shifts art and art criticism from irony to authenticity -- a rather unnerving move, at least to today’s eyes. Can art and art criticism survive the loss of irony, the loss of inauthenticity, as its central source? And if today’s art abandons sardonic surfaces, where will it finally reside?

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We do not live in a pregiven world. One of the more remarkable tenets of the postmodern revolution in philosophy, psychology, and sociology is that different worldviews exist -- different ways of categorizing, presenting, representing, and organizing our experiences. There is not a single, monolithic world with a single, privileged representation, but rather multiple worlds with pluralistic interpretations. Moreover, these worldviews often -- indeed, almost always -- change from epoch to epoch, and from culture to culture.

This insight need not be taken to extremes -- there are plenty of common features in our various interpretations to prevent the world from falling apart. Indeed, scholars have discovered there are at least some (and often many) universals in languages, in affects, in cognitive structures, and in color perception, to name a few. But these universal ingredients are woven together and organized in a rich variety of ways, resulting in a tapestry of multiple worldviews.

(read the entire essay here.)
- posted by ~C4Chaos @ 10:52 PM

 
A table opens up in a crowded coffee house...
... ICHI-Art is born.
- posted by ~C4Chaos @ 11:30 PM