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Symbiosis
Arts, Music, & Conscious Lifestyle Gathering
Angels Camp, California, USA
Our intention is to create a gathering space for people to exchange ideas, express creativity, explore spirituality, camp together, and enjoy themselves in a positive and nurturing environment. We seek to align ourselves for positive change through the creative arts, music, holistic medicine, and communal networking.
There will be a a Pre-Gathering Perma-Culture Intensive.
Guest Speakers
Erik Davis
Erik Davis is a San Francisco-based writer, culture critic, and independent scholar. He is the author of 'The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape', as well as 'TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information'. Davis contributes to scores of magazines, and his essays have been included in over a dozen books. He lectures frequently at festivals and universities on topics ranging from electronic music to the evolution of consciousness.
Robert Forte -Mystery Traditions
Leonard Schlain -Women, Sex, Time
Stacia Butterfield -Holotropic
Charlie Grob -
Trout -Plant Allies
Robin Sylvan -Trance Dancing
Health & Healing Center
Experience the fullness of the Symbiosis community in the Health and Healing Center. Rejuvenate your body with professional massage therapy. Daily yoga sessions tune and focus in a comfortable setting with a qualified instructor. Practitioners to be announced online later this summer.
Autumn Equinox Ritual
Sacred Altar Space
Sample Lineup:
SHPONGLE (Tip Records/Coast II Coast - U.K.)
HALLUCINOGEN (Twisted Records/Coast II Coast - U.K.)
TIPPER (Tippermusic - Seattle/U.K.)(A Special Twilight Set)
SKREAM (Tempa, Big Apple, Tectonic - U.K.)(First West Coast Apperance)
ZILLA (Jamie Janover, Aaron Holstein, with Michael Travis from SCI)
EOTO (End of Time Observatory) (Travis and Jason Hann from SCI)
SPOONBILL (Omelette Records - Melbourne, Australia)
HERMITUDE (Elefant Traks - Melbourne, Australia)
DELTA NOVE (Los Angeles)
Thursday, April 27 through Sunday, April 30, 2006.
I just heard of the Xara Project. Sounds wonderful. Here's the basic description from their website:
Come share 4 days and 3 nights with a thousand other brilliant souls living the life of a future paradise, and celebrate again the experience of your own life.Xara Dulzura is an outdoor retreat exploring personal, creative mythology through visual and performing arts, workshops, landscape, hospitality, and one another.
Madre Grande Monastery is located on 264 secluded acres of oaks, stony hills and meadows high above and beyond rural Dulzura, in southeast San Diego County.
Here we pre-enact Xara, a pastoral paradise civilization 400 years in the future, imagine the myths and rites that would inform and sustain that world, and dream them to life for one another through interactive visual and performing arts. The most important vision and spirit is your own in this shared exploration of creative mythology through mutual art, hospitality, and personal experience.
We hope you will join our future Floralia as we celebrate the coming of new summer, the full-throated roar of life in its prime, and the building of the new.
Four artists collaboratively produce large-scale sculptural installation through science fiction-inspired “Communal Consciousness”
+ Exhibition opens Wednesday 29 June from 7 - 9 pm
+ Exhibition runs Wednesday 29 June – Sunday 4 September 2005
+ The Minded Swarm science fiction reading group – Friday 15 July at 7 pm
PRESS CONTACT – Matt Lipps 323-957-1777 x.17
Los Angeles, 1 June 2005 – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is pleased to announce The Minded Swarm, a collaborative, large-scale sculptural installation organized by Karl Erickson with Consulting Curator Irene Tsatsos. Science fiction (SF) enthusiasts and artists Andy Alexander, Kathleen Johnson, Jennifer Lane, and Halsey Rodman are attracted to the genre’s social and political models, and its exploration of the human condition. The artists have met for some years in a science fiction reading group, absorbing SF’s mode of fantastic speculation into their own practice. Assuming the model of a Gestalt Organism (Theodore Sturgeon, More than Human, Vintage, 1998.) where individual capacities merge to create a single distributed intelligence, the artists have enacted a state-change, adopting a communal consciousness (Olaf Stapledon, Starmaker, Wesleyan University Press, 2004 (1937), p. 271.) as a means of artistic production. Their resulting environment will comprise two zones or microclimates—the Zone of Encounter, a transitional domestic interior, and the Zone of the Superstructure, an unstable architectural form seemingly in flux and embodying the amorphous spirit of the Utility Fog ( Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Penguin Putnam, NY, 2000, p. 145.). The work reflects both the utopian, speculative impulses of SF and a celebration of the everyday reality of the existing built world. As these four superpowers merged, the subsequent hive mind has harnessed group energy to address the psychological, psychosexual, phenomenological and formal properties of materials and built form, both real and imagined.
As part of The Minded Swarm, the artists invite the public to join them for their regular July book club meeting. They have chosen Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan and invite all interested parties to read the book and join them for the discussion on July 15 at 7:30 pm in the LACE galleries. The artists will also publish the list of books the club has read to date on LACE's website, www.artleak.org.
Featuring:
JARON LANIER
DAVID DUNCAN
ANNALEE NEWITZ
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY
Moderator:
RU SIRIUS
WHAT: NeoFiles Public Forum - The Future of the Future: the Next 10-30 Years
WHERE: Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA.
WHEN: 7:30 PM, Thursday April 28
PRICE: $10 at the door
E-Mail: rusirius@neofiles.com
Phone: 1-707-773-3175
Life Enhancement Products and NeoFiles announce the second NeoFiles
Public Forum. Taking their ongoing, web-based monthly exploration of
edgy, visionary philosophy, science and technology to a live audience,
the topic of the second forum will be “The Future of the Future: the
Next 10-30 Years.” NeoFiles Executive Editor and technoculture legend
RU Sirius will be presiding over the NeoFiles Forum.
Physicist Neils Bohr said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future” while philosopher Simone Weil wrote that, “The future is made of the same stuff as the present.” Meanwhile, avant-punk rockers Sonic Youth kept their prediction succinct, singing, “confusion is next.”
On April 28, we will be bringing together five widely respected commentators on the culture of technology to participate in live panel discussion that will explore the changes that can be expected during the next 10-30 years.
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PANELISTS
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Jaron Lanier was the person most commonly associated with Virtual Reality (VR) when that developing technology conquered the national media’s imagination in the early 1990s. Lanier’s team at VPL (Virtual Programming Language) developed the first implementation of multi-person virtual worlds using head mounted displays and he led the team that developed the first widely used software platform for immersive VR. As a musician who works with a remarkable collection of eclectic instruments from all over the world, Lanier has worked with Philip Glass, Ornette Coleman, George Clinton, and Sean Lennon.
NeoFiles Interview
http://www.life-enhancement.com/le/neofiles/default.asp?ID=11
“I like to think of VR as an alternative way of thinking about a ramp of technological progress in the future where instead of making bigger and faster things, you make more intense experiences and more interesting forms of human connection.” — Lanier
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David Duncan writes a column for the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle on ”Biotech and Creativity” where he discusses the social and cultural implications of the biotech revolution. Duncan also conducts a regular interview column for Discover Magazine, and is a commentator on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. His most recent book, The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with my DNA: and other masterminds from the frontiers of biotech will be published by Willam Morrow/Harper Collins, May 2005
NeoFiles Interview
http://www.life-enhancement.com/le/neofiles/default.asp?ID=48
“… I’m fascinated by the fact that there may be a few genes that you could alter with a pill that could let you live to be maybe 150 years old.” — Duncan
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Annalee Newitz writes the nationally-syndicated column "Techsploitation." In 1992, Newitz founded the radical leftist webzine, Bad Subjects. She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from UC Berkeley and was a 2002 recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowhship at MIT. She currently works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and publishes in Wired, Popular Science, Salon.com, New Scientist and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her forthcoming book, Pretend We're Dead, is about monster movies and capitalism.
NeoFiles Interview
http://www.life-enhancement.com/le/neofiles/default.asp?ID=54
"The problem I have with transhumanism and extropianism is that they seem to have replaced religion with biotech -- transcendence is physical transcendence." — Newitz
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Eliezer Yudkowsky is Director of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). “The Singularity” is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. Science fiction writer Vernor Vinge originally coined the term "Singularity" in observing that our model of the world breaks down when it tries to model a future that contains entities smarter than human. The SIAI was founded for the pursuit of ethically enhanced cognition by creating beneficial AI.
SIAI Website
http://www.singinst.org/
“Like a spectator at the dawn of human intelligence, trying to answer directly why transhuman intelligence matters chokes on a dozen different simultaneous replies; what matters is the entire future growing out of that beginning.” — Yudkowsky
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MODERATOR
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RU Sirius is a well-known cultural commentator and co-founder of Mondo 2000, the iconoclastic magazine that defined the digital culture of the early nineties. He is currently Editor-in-chief of NeoFiles. He is author or editor of seven books, including Counterculture Through The Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge, The Revolution, and he co-wrote Timothy Leary's last book, Design for Dying.
NeoFiles Website
http://www.neofiles.net
