Subject: PARADOX Seminar event at Arcosanti AZ 10/24-26 Verbum and the Cosanti Foundation are pleased to announce the first annual ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PARADOX SEMINAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Urban designer and philosopher Paolo Soleri, the Cosanti Foundation and the residents of Arcosanti invite you to an experiential conference on cyberspace, arcology and human evolution. Join us for a weekend of critical discourse, music, immersive media, and the experience of Arcosanti, a prototype 21st century town in the Arizona high desert. Weekend Retreat at Arcosanti, Arizona October 24-26, 1997 * Paolo Soleri Presentation: The Paradox Project * Panel Discussions * Ambient Salon * Techno Concert/Dance * River Walk * Cafe at Arcosanti Cuisine PANELISTS * Scott Fisher - virtual reality pioneer (Telepresence Research) * John Graham - internet video entrepreneur/nanotechnology expert (Graham Technology Solutions) * Michael Gosney - multimedia publisher/producer (Verbum) * Michael O'Rourke - new media producer/theorist (Dimension 7) * Mark Pesce - co-inventor, VRML (Blitcom) * Paolo Soleri - urban designer, philosopher (Cosanti Foundation) * David Traub - new media producer/consultant (Inner Ecology Software) (others to be announced) MUSIC Ceiba - Kode 4/Adam Om, Claire Corich, Ethan Miller, Eric Kalabacos VISUALS Dimension7, Verbum SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday, October 24 2:00 - 5:00 pm Registration Visitor Center Gallery 6:30 Night Bronze Pour Foundry 7:00 Dinner Cafe 8:30 Welcome Presentation Music Center Amphitheater 9:00 - 12:00 Ambient Salon Vault Saturday, October 25 7:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast Buffet Cafe 9:00 - 8:00 pm Exhibits/DemonstrationsVault, Ceramics, Gallery 9:00 am Panel Discussion Music Center Amphitheater 12:00 pm Lunch Cafe 1:00 Presentation Music Center Amphitheater 2:00 Panel Discussion Music Center Amphitheater 4:00 Panel Discussion Music Center Amphitheater 5:30 Performance Vault 6:30 - 8:00 Dinner Buffet Cafe 9:00 Pictograph Performance Sky Theatre 10:00 Techno Concert/Dance Vault Sunday, October 26 9:00 - 2:00 Brunch Buffet Cafe 12:00 - 4:00 Ambient Salon Vault 2:00 - 3:30 River Walk Agua Fria River 4:00 Fini Ritual Vault ACCOMMODATIONS Camping on Arcosanti grounds is $15 per night. Rooms available within 30 minutes of the site. Request a complete list of accommodations in Prescott and Sedona via email: shiflett@aztec.asu.edu, or contact: AZ Tourist Bureau 888-249-8470, AZ Assoc. Of B&Bs 800-284-2589, 1800-OUTWEST Reservations 800-688-9378, 1800-GO-Sedona Reservations, 800-467-3366, Red Rock Reservations 800-890-0521, Sedona Central Reservations 800-445-4128, Sedona On-Line, Inc. www.sedona.net. TICKETS Full weekend $150 ($200 after October 1) Camping $15 per night REGISTRATION Send check for $150 per person (made payable to "Cosanti Foundation") to Paradox Seminar, Arcosanti, Box HC74, Mayer, AZ 86333. A complete registration package will be sent to attendees in September. ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED! Contact Mark Shiflett, Registration Coordinator at 520-632-7135 or via email at shiflett@aztec.asu.edu for more information. THE PARADOX PROJECT The Cosanti Foundation is planning to start construction of the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Complex on the south slopes of Arcosanti. The complex is mainly intended to be the eventual residence and work place for participants in the Paradox Program, those digital "insiders" who are at home on the Internet, working in digital media, developing their nexus with Cyberspace. The Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Complex: - Loggia - Greenhouses - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Cloister The complex is named after the Jesuit priest and paleontologist who in the 1940s presented the idea of the Noosphere, an anticipation of the Internet and Cyberspace. "The experience will not be in the domain of hyper-consumption encouraged by our culture and by Cyberspace, but in the domain of frugality. We choose frugality in view of its hold on interiorization and its coherence with the limitations and the glories of the planet. Since Arcosanti is a place in search of the miniaturized by way of complexity, and since cyberspace is a non-place in search of the complex by way of miniaturization, I am proposing an internship for insider-outsider interaction via the practice of building and living in a non-virtual environment frugally imprinted, a habitat dedicated to urbanization." --- Paolo Soleri NEO-MONASTIC INTERNSHIP The Paradox Project's neo-monastic internship program will offer participants the chance to live, study and work at Arcosanti, with a primary focus on the construction of the Teilhard de Chardin complex. Study and discourse will be encouraged, though Soleri has observed that "we are offering not a contemplative Buddhahood, but an active and less narcissistic 'cement mixer-hood.'" Complete internet connectivity will be offered for personal work and activities, which will be combined with the 5 hour per day, 5 day per week construction schedule. PAOLO SOLERI AND ARCOSANTI Paolo Soleri, born in Turin, Italy, awarded a PhD from the Torino Polytechnico in 1946, came to the U.S. in 1947 to study with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West. He settled in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1956. Soleri's urban design ideas have since been developing in the form of the landmark 1971 MIT Press book, "Arcology: the City in the Image of Man" and various other books, touring exhibitions, the Cosanti studio/foundry compound in Scottsdale, and Arcosanti, a prototype arcology for 7000 people 60 miles north of Phoenix near Cordes Junction, Arizona. "Arcology" is a term coined by Soleri to describe the concept of architecture and ecology working as one integral process to produce new urban habitats. Arcosanti is an "urban laboratory" experimenting with basic arcological design ideas, combining a compact, complex urban structure with large scale solar greenhouses on 10 acres of a 4000 acre preserve. Even though the existing structures at Arcosanti represent less than 10% of what will be the finished arcology, the site has a lively community, a stream of visitors (it is an official Arizona tourist site) and has hosted many festivals, conferences, music performances and educational programs since the late 1970s. [ http://www.arcosanti.org ] PRODUCED BY VERBUM AND COSANTI The Paradox Seminar is a joint production of multimedia publisher Verbum, producer of San Francisco's annual Digital Be-In, and the Cosanti Foundation, a not-for-profit, public educational foundation devoted to the support of Paolo Soleri's architectural and urban planning research. VERBUM Verbum, Inc. is a San Francisco-based multimedia publisher and production group founded in 1986 by Michael Gosney, Cosanti Foundation Board member and director of the Paradox Seminar. The firm's Verbum Journal was an influential magazine for early digital artists and cyberculture aficionados, and Verbum Interactive, published mid-1991, was one of the first multimedia CD-ROMs. Producer of many instructional books/CD-ROMs for digital media professionals, Verbum has just completed its first consumer product, Peter Norton's PC Guru CD-ROM. Verbum has produced numerous events, including CyberArts International, the Imagine Exhibit of digital art, and the Annual Digital Be-In in San Francisco. [paradox@verbum.com - http://www.verbum.com - http://www.be-in.com ] PARADOX SEMINAR TOUCHSTONES Themes: * Paradox Project - neomonastic internship program at Arcosanti * Cross-disciplinary Philosophical Discourse vs. the Corporate Cyber-elite * Cyberspace/Cityspace * Morphogenetic origins of digital media * Carbon and Silicon - evolutionary symbiosis? * Electronic Media (the basic plumbing), Cyberspace (the design of the human metamind), and the Noosphere (the emergent "cosmic" holon) * The Web, Immersive Media, and New Inner Dimensions Proposition: Understanding our relationship to the planetary organism - on magnetic, ecological, biological/ chemical, and noetic levels - would seem to be essential for the fully conscious and conscientious development of a human/Gaian "metamind." The intelligent design of the cyberspace interface/ network would ideally incorporate the proven systems and techniques of the natural world, such as: - miniaturization for increased complexity/richness - distributed processing - fractal memory - fuzzy logic - pattern recognition - holonomic networks - redundancy, redundancy, redundancy The full realization of the elegant underpinnings of the metamind might not be best left solely in the hands of the existing cyber-elite - the digerati (the powerhouses of the industry and culture) and the cybernauts (the hands-on builders and early inhabitants of cyberspace). A broader vision, more encompassing dialogue and cross-disciplinary cooperation for this great evolutionary work is needed. The steady exponential increase in microprocessor performance during the short and tumultuous history of the digital realm is astounding given the seeming influence that individuals and institutions have had over the process in the trial-and-error, survival-of-the-fittest battleground of the commercial marketplace. The almost spontaneous emergence of the hypermedia World Wide Web is an even more obvious example of something bigger at work: it is a remarkable creation that seems to transcend the individual cells - the brilliant hackers and aggressive marketers and savvy venture capitalists - who are contributing the code-genes and tech-flesh of this new organism. It would appear that the entire electro-digital media field is not so much created by us as coming through us, using us, in a morpho-genetically programmed evolution toward some greater whole that we are just beginning to perceive. Given this scenario, the fear-driven, profit-motivated, ego-competitive, cyber-elite that gave birth to the fundamental tools and systems is in need of a complementary cross-disciplinary consensus on the advanced design and development of cyberspace. We are at a critical juncture on many fronts in the short and tumultuous history of the human species. Digital media, with the potential it offers for a quantum leap in human consciousness (through education, personal growth, new perceptual tools, and enhanced communication), could spawn a new wave of cooperative genius in our societies, bringing about the invention and vision we need to overcome the adverse affects of our primitive technologies on the Gaian ecosystem, to appropriately manage our global population, and to support a new phase of cosmic human evolution. It is the intention of the Paradox Seminar and the Paradox Project program at Arcosanti to contribute to these developments. ---Michael Gosney, Conference Director VERBUM, INC. 123 Townsend Street, Suite 645 San Francisco, CA 94107 415-777-9901 fax 415-777-9929 www.verbum.com COSANTI FOUNDATION www.arcosanti.org References: <1997Oct09.192400.1753.81528@nell.oki.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: admin@solidconcepts.com, mtsmith@solidconcepts.com Subject: PARADOX Seminar event at Arcosanti AZ 10/24-26 Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:05:16 GMT Resent-From: arcology-l@legba.vortexworks.com Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:05:10 -0700 From: paradox <paradox@verbum.com> Reply-To: arcology-l@legba.vortexworks.com To: mail@verbum.com Verbum and the Cosanti Foundation are pleased to announce the first annual ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PARADOX SEMINAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Urban designer and philosopher Paolo Soleri, the Cosanti Foundation and the residents of Arcosanti invite you to an experiential conference on cyberspace, arcology and human evolution. Join us for a weekend of critical discourse, music, immersive media, and the experience of Arcosanti, a prototype 21st century town in the Arizona high desert. Weekend Retreat at Arcosanti, Arizona October 24-26, 1997 * Paolo Soleri Presentation: The Paradox Project * Panel Discussions * Ambient Salon * Techno Concert/Dance * River Walk * Cafe at Arcosanti Cuisine PANELISTS * Scott Fisher - virtual reality pioneer (Telepresence Research) * John Graham - internet video entrepreneur/nanotechnology expert (Graham Technology Solutions) * Michael Gosney - multimedia publisher/producer (Verbum) * Michael O'Rourke - new media producer/theorist (Dimension 7) * Mark Pesce - co-inventor, VRML (Blitcom) * Paolo Soleri - urban designer, philosopher (Cosanti Foundation) * David Traub - new media producer/consultant (Inner Ecology Software) (others to be announced) MUSIC Ceiba - Kode 4/Adam Om, Claire Corich, Ethan Miller, Eric Kalabacos VISUALS Dimension7, Verbum SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday, October 24 2:00 - 5:00 pm Registration Visitor Center Gallery 6:30 Night Bronze Pour Foundry 7:00 Dinner Cafe 8:30 Welcome Presentation Music Center Amphitheater 9:00 - 12:00 Ambient Salon Vault Saturday, October 25 7:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast Buffet Cafe 9:00 - 8:00 pm Exhibits/DemonstrationsVault, Ceramics, Gallery 9:00 am Panel Discussion Music Center Amphitheater 12:00 pm Lunch Cafe 1:00 Presentation Music Center Amphitheater 2:00 Panel Discussion Music Center Amphitheater 4:00 Panel Discussion Music Center Amphitheater 5:30 Performance Vault 6:30 - 8:00 Dinner Buffet Cafe 9:00 Pictograph Performance Sky Theatre 10:00 Techno Concert/Dance Vault Sunday, October 26 9:00 - 2:00 Brunch Buffet Cafe 12:00 - 4:00 Ambient Salon Vault 2:00 - 3:30 River Walk Agua Fria River 4:00 Fini Ritual Vault ACCOMMODATIONS Camping on Arcosanti grounds is $15 per night. Rooms available within 30 minutes of the site. Request a complete list of accommodations in Prescott and Sedona via email: shiflett@aztec.asu.edu, or contact: AZ Tourist Bureau 888-249-8470, AZ Assoc. Of B&Bs 800-284-2589, 1800-OUTWEST Reservations 800-688-9378, 1800-GO-Sedona Reservations, 800-467-3366, Red Rock Reservations 800-890-0521, Sedona Central Reservations 800-445-4128, Sedona On-Line, Inc. www.sedona.net. TICKETS Full weekend $150 ($200 after October 1) Camping $15 per night REGISTRATION Send check for $150 per person (made payable to "Cosanti Foundation") to Paradox Seminar, Arcosanti, Box HC74, Mayer, AZ 86333. A complete registration package will be sent to attendees in September. ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED! Contact Mark Shiflett, Registration Coordinator at 520-632-7135 or via email at shiflett@aztec.asu.edu for more information. THE PARADOX PROJECT The Cosanti Foundation is planning to start construction of the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Complex on the south slopes of Arcosanti. The complex is mainly intended to be the eventual residence and work place for participants in the Paradox Program, those digital "insiders" who are at home on the Internet, working in digital media, developing their nexus with Cyberspace. The Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Complex: - Loggia - Greenhouses - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Cloister The complex is named after the Jesuit priest and paleontologist who in the 1940s presented the idea of the Noosphere, an anticipation of the Internet and Cyberspace. "The experience will not be in the domain of hyper-consumption encouraged by our culture and by Cyberspace, but in the domain of frugality. We choose frugality in view of its hold on interiorization and its coherence with the limitations and the glories of the planet. Since Arcosanti is a place in search of the miniaturized by way of complexity, and since cyberspace is a non-place in search of the complex by way of miniaturization, I am proposing an internship for insider-outsider interaction via the practice of building and living in a non-virtual environment frugally imprinted, a habitat dedicated to urbanization." --- Paolo Soleri NEO-MONASTIC INTERNSHIP The Paradox Project's neo-monastic internship program will offer participants the chance to live, study and work at Arcosanti, with a primary focus on the construction of the Teilhard de Chardin complex. Study and discourse will be encouraged, though Soleri has observed that "we are offering not a contemplative Buddhahood, but an active and less narcissistic 'cement mixer-hood.'" Complete internet connectivity will be offered for personal work and activities, which will be combined with the 5 hour per day, 5 day per week construction schedule. PAOLO SOLERI AND ARCOSANTI Paolo Soleri, born in Turin, Italy, awarded a PhD from the Torino Polytechnico in 1946, came to the U.S. in 1947 to study with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West. He settled in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1956. Soleri's urban design ideas have since been developing in the form of the landmark 1971 MIT Press book, "Arcology: the City in the Image of Man" and various other books, touring exhibitions, the Cosanti studio/foundry compound in Scottsdale, and Arcosanti, a prototype arcology for 7000 people 60 miles north of Phoenix near Cordes Junction, Arizona. "Arcology" is a term coined by Soleri to describe the concept of architecture and ecology working as one integral process to produce new urban habitats. Arcosanti is an "urban laboratory" experimenting with basic arcological design ideas, combining a compact, complex urban structure with large scale solar greenhouses on 10 acres of a 4000 acre preserve. Even though the existing structures at Arcosanti represent less than 10% of what will be the finished arcology, the site has a lively community, a stream of visitors (it is an official Arizona tourist site) and has hosted many festivals, conferences, music performances and educational programs since the late 1970s. [ http://www.arcosanti.org ] PRODUCED BY VERBUM AND COSANTI The Paradox Seminar is a joint production of multimedia publisher Verbum, producer of San Francisco's annual Digital Be-In, and the Cosanti Foundation, a not-for-profit, public educational foundation devoted to the support of Paolo Soleri's architectural and urban planning research. VERBUM Verbum, Inc. is a San Francisco-based multimedia publisher and production group founded in 1986 by Michael Gosney, Cosanti Foundation Board member and director of the Paradox Seminar. The firm's Verbum Journal was an influential magazine for early digital artists and cyberculture aficionados, and Verbum Interactive, published mid-1991, was one of the first multimedia CD-ROMs. Producer of many instructional books/CD-ROMs for digital media professionals, Verbum has just completed its first consumer product, Peter Norton's PC Guru CD-ROM. Verbum has produced numerous events, including CyberArts International, the Imagine Exhibit of digital art, and the Annual Digital Be-In in San Francisco. [paradox@verbum.com - http://www.verbum.com - http://www.be-in.com ] PARADOX SEMINAR TOUCHSTONES Themes: * Paradox Project - neomonastic internship program at Arcosanti * Cross-disciplinary Philosophical Discourse vs. the Corporate Cyber-elite * Cyberspace/Cityspace * Morphogenetic origins of digital media * Carbon and Silicon - evolutionary symbiosis? * Electronic Media (the basic plumbing), Cyberspace (the design of the human metamind), and the Noosphere (the emergent "cosmic" holon) * The Web, Immersive Media, and New Inner Dimensions Proposition: Understanding our relationship to the planetary organism - on magnetic, ecological, biological/ chemical, and noetic levels - would seem to be essential for the fully conscious and conscientious development of a human/Gaian "metamind." The intelligent design of the cyberspace interface/ network would ideally incorporate the proven systems and techniques of the natural world, such as: - miniaturization for increased complexity/richness - distributed processing - fractal memory - fuzzy logic - pattern recognition - holonomic networks - redundancy, redundancy, redundancy The full realization of the elegant underpinnings of the metamind might not be best left solely in the hands of the existing cyber-elite - the digerati (the powerhouses of the industry and culture) and the cybernauts (the hands-on builders and early inhabitants of cyberspace). A broader vision, more encompassing dialogue and cross-disciplinary cooperation for this great evolutionary work is needed. The steady exponential increase in microprocessor performance during the short and tumultuous history of the digital realm is astounding given the seeming influence that individuals and institutions have had over the process in the trial-and-error, survival-of-the-fittest battleground of the commercial marketplace. The almost spontaneous emergence of the hypermedia World Wide Web is an even more obvious example of something bigger at work: it is a remarkable creation that seems to transcend the individual cells - the brilliant hackers and aggressive marketers and savvy venture capitalists - who are contributing the code-genes and tech-flesh of this new organism. It would appear that the entire electro-digital media field is not so much created by us as coming through us, using us, in a morpho-genetically programmed evolution toward some greater whole that we are just beginning to perceive. Given this scenario, the fear-driven, profit-motivated, ego-competitive, cyber-elite that gave birth to the fundamental tools and systems is in need of a complementary cross-disciplinary consensus on the advanced design and development of cyberspace. We are at a critical juncture on many fronts in the short and tumultuous history of the human species. Digital media, with the potential it offers for a quantum leap in human consciousness (through education, personal growth, new perceptual tools, and enhanced communication), could spawn a new wave of cooperative genius in our societies, bringing about the invention and vision we need to overcome the adverse affects of our primitive technologies on the Gaian ecosystem, to appropriately manage our global population, and to support a new phase of cosmic human evolution. It is the intention of the Paradox Seminar and the Paradox Project program at Arcosanti to contribute to these developments. ---Michael Gosney, Conference Director VERBUM, INC. 123 Townsend Street, Suite 645 San Francisco, CA 94107 415-777-9901 fax 415-777-9929 www.verbum.com COSANTI FOUNDATION www.arcosanti.org Lou Dallara Techno Visionary Reduce..Reuse..Recycle http://www.waterw.com/~ldallara http://www.arcosanti.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Please send administrative requests to <majordomo@sdsc.edu> *** -------------------------------------------------------------------