Decision Makers 2010 Building Sustainability in a Globalized World Conference June 7-10, 2000, Hong Kong Executive Summary | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 Program & Real Audio Presentations Participants Picture Gallery Art Gallery Word-Download: Executive Summary in German

				Plenum II - Art & the Sustainable Future Sandy Stone brought a multimedia experience to the group. She reminded participants of the unreliability of information in the internet age by saying at the outset of the talk "everyone within the sound of my voice is within my irony field." She enlarged on this theme of uncertainty by reporting, or perhaps inventing, a story of aural experiments with cats, in which it was possible to hear things - wind, insects, or maybe mice - as the cats heard them. Spending time in the cat's audio environment, she said, it was possible to experience the world in a non-human fashion. Connections made through the internet were beginning to have similar effects, taking us out of our cultural moorings and exposing us directly to minds that think differently. At the edges of this experience, we start to transcend or expand our notion of human. Boundaries, whether of culture, gender, or even species, are not nearly as fixed as we are often led to believe. Sustainability in this realm of thought and action is only possible through continuous regeneration and reconfiguration. Community is distributed. We can now have communities grow around the world based on interests and whims. Art encompasses responses to things we once thought were immutable, and which are now in question. In the discussion that followed, participants pressed a line of questioning about the relationships among art, commerce and technology. Copyright, said Stone, is dead on the net. We need to think beyond copyright to get to useful concepts about how the net can enhance social and cultural values. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6
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