[spectre] Prof. Roy Ascott - Lecture - 19.06. Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gdansk (PL)

[Katarzyna Wozniak]

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Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gdansk, PL

is happy to invite you to a lecture of

PROF. ROY ASCOTT

ART AND TECHNOETIC EVOLUTION: THE MULTIPLE SELF IN A VARIABLE REALITY

on Friday, June 19th 2009 6 p.m.
1 Jaskolcza Street
80-767 Gdansk

This presentation will argue that the field of consciousness is a 
non-material, irreducible given, which our evolution enables us 
progressively to access. Technoetic systems (somatic, digital and 
pharmaceutical) extend our connectivity within the field. At the same time, 
the mind’s capacity for managing personal identity has been socially 
constrained, with the isolated, solitary self set in an immutable 
materiality as a feature of western culture since the Enlightenment. But 
now, the single-self organism is evolving into the multiple self, enabling 
us to participate more creatively in the evolution of the multi-layered, 
syncretic reality we inhabit. The artist is uniquely equipped to negotiate 
and navigate this reality. The material, conceptual and spiritual 
infrastructure needed to support this emergence calls for new forms of 
behaviour, new language, new structures and systems.


For more information please contact:
Kasia Wozniak
Jaskolcza 1
80-767 Gdansk
Tel. +48 792003541
Fax. +48 58 305 26 80
Email. katarzyna.wozniak at laznia.pl