tentacles and terabits

Squids and tentacles are everywhere in my life at the moment- like a cliched sub-narrative from a b-grade fantasy movie, or a bad Freudian therapy session. More about that in a minute.

I first want to share some standouts from the Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium, which I attended this past weekend.

Digital artists are an eclectic bunch, made up of programmers, sound and visual/film performance artists, electronic gadgeters, and academics. Often well travelled and highly educated, the members of this sub-culture are at the cutting edge of a number of fields, and form a hub of transdiciplinarity.

Highlight for me was meeting Phil Dadson, a world renowned interdisciplinary pioneer. His artistic practice weaves together sound, moving image, music and performance to create masterpieces of ungenreability. From Scratch has been his main (but not exclusive) platform, combining experimental instruments (often made from things found around your backyard), with the latest in performance technologies. Phil seems to have kept himself at the frontier of performance art, with his earliest successes starting almost forty years ago.

What I find most inspirational about him is his humility, and his incredible success at collaborating across disciplines and genres. Check out his website for an archive of ingenuity.

Elsewhere in the conference, I enjoyed hearing presentations on: 'live' cinema creation, creating creative spaces, interactive abstract painting, new radio, and some philosophy on the nature of 'real' and 'the material' (among many other interesting, although at times undecipherable, topics). There is some info on these in the symposium blog.

Conferences like this are great ways to find out what is happening at the cutting edge of technology and media. I usually survive the often obtuse topic matter and language by swallowing my pride and asking extremely basic questions. For example I asked my friend why we were spending almost two hours discussing something called "materiality" and her answer (hastily scribbled on a piece of paper, and furtively passed to me was " it's geek self-lashing"). Of course.

I also didn't understand why everyone kept referring to "white cubes" - I genuinely wondered if it was a new designer drug or an addiction to sugar shapes. Again, upon discrete enquiry, I found that it was a reference to traditional gallery and exhibition spaces which often work to confine artists and predefine the nature of their work.

And tentacles?

Well, from reading my blog you will see that I have recently become slightly obsessed by squids in a kind of 'oh dear this is quite sad, please get other hobbies' way. But who would blame me after my weekend of squid encounters. First, while walking to the conference I came upon a production crew setting up for an American mobile phone commercial. [This kind of occurrence is not unusual in a country where everyone seems to work in film, work as an extra, or is a hobbit from Lord of the Rings].

As I walked across the set, which seemed to take up several city streets, I came upon a giant squid bursting out of a house (!)

I stopped to take a sneaky photo of this dayglow inflatable phenomena (picture left) and carried on to the conference. There, as I arrived to register at the conference desk, the man arriving next to me proclaimed himself to be from Tentacle Media.

[Of course, I immediately, and rather excitedly, showed him the squid house up the road. He looked a little frightened of me and walked off].

During lunch a small boy crawled past on the floor with a squid soft toy on his head [I kid you not - what parents would buy something like that?]. And finally, the next day a friend at the conference delighted in telling me that a new squid/jellyfish-like crop circle had appeared in theUK in last few weeks.

As I was leaving Wellington, my hosts for the weekend encouraged me to visit the Colossal Squid at Te Papa as kind of climax to this string of squid encounters...but alas time ran out, as did my medication.

Signing off.

PS: I liked this graffiti alien I found near the conference venue - it has a large squid-like head don't you think?

fresh out of the box

Fresh out of the Box is an exhibition currently showing in the hybrid Puke Ariki centre, located in Taranaki, NZ. Puke Ariki is a combined visitor centre, library, art gallery and workshop space that fosters engagement with knowledge past, present and future. A wonderful building located in the heart of provincial NZ it is a standout for small city innovation and worth a visit.

In this particular exhibition (curated by Bill Milbank) 80 objects from the heritage collection were picked out by researcher Ron Lambert to illustrate what it is like to be a Taranakian. The works included rugs, books, barbed wire fences, school uniforms and other cultural artefacts. 15 artists then were invited to reinterpret (and subvert) these items - using them as inspiration for a series of multimedia and traditional pieces. I particularly liked:

Ngahina Hohaia's mixed media installation that projected images of local Maori in and out of a giant circle of intricately hand embroidered poi(left).

Nicole Freeman's surreal painting of a child based on a collection of photographs from the centre's Swainson Collection (top),

and Paul Hartigan's beautiful neon mini-installations inspired by a rag rug carpet (below).

Re/sense

Can we hear and taste the colour green? Are our landscapes maps of smell and sound?

These are questions that Raewyn Turner and Diana Burgoyne have been asking as part of their synaesthesia based collaboration Re/Sense, which was recently exhibited at the International Sinestesia Conference in Grenada

Synaesthesia is defined as an experience where one sense provokes another sense - for example seeing the colour blue and immediately associating this with a particular sound. Synaesthesia subverts sensorial categories and enriches our perception of reality in ways that are difficult to describe without resorting to flowery language and cliches. Although this phenomena has been explored by artists, perfumers and culinary practitioners throughout the ages, in recent years there has been a growth of interest within the scientific professions. This has resulted in a number of well funded trandisciplinary conferences and collaborations.

Raewyn is one of NZ's foremost interdisciplinary artists and has exhibited multi-sensory installations internationally for many years. But is was in the small city of New Plymouth that she originally conceptualised this work.

While walking around the streets and parks she photographed many different 'greens' - plants, objects etc. This digital photo collection was used to create a computerized colour palette, which was then made into a video. She then invited Diana (a Canadian electronics specialist) to collaborate with her to put sound to the pictures. Diana did this by using a sensor that is sensitive to variations in the tone and intensity within the colour palette to create a "responsive frequency generator" [not sure what this is either but sounds tricky!]. She attached her circuit sensor to the computer screen while it displayed the video and this created sounds corresponding to the differing greens. The result is an audio/visual sketch of the colour green.

Later Raewyn made a second video of Canadian greens with the idea of projecting both videos on opposite walls. The animated pallets were shown to the commercial perfumer, Louise Crouch, who offered commercial fragrances which synaesthetically match the visual green sequences. All of this work was assisted by Banff New Media Institute who provided funding for a residency and expert input from interdisciplinary group of art, media and science professionals.

For more information about Raewyn's background and work see: http://raewynturner.co.nz/

hybrids and connections

in the last wee while I have come across some great examples of leading edge, often strange and occasionally controversial hybrid work connecting:

human and trees: http://www.biopresence.com/description.html

humans and machines: www.interface.ufg.ac.at

creative practice and technology: http://www.hexagram.org/spip.php?page=home&lang=en&sid=0

culture and technology: www.trans-techresearch.net

art and science: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leoplan.html

art, science and games (by a friend and foam colleague Angelo Vermeulen): http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=EGuMrrpO8LU

http://www.athensnews.com/entertainment/2008/jan/14/artwork-turns-computer-gamers-green-thumbed-sculpt/

sculpture and sound: http://www.sonicobjects.com/

culture and nature: http://nextnature.net/

art and streetlife: http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html

biology and art: http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-19.html

enjoy...

tourist in my own land....

Have you ever had that experience where you wander around your neighbourhood and suddenly discover something new that you hadn’t seen or experienced before? Something that was probably there all the time, but you took it for granted, or missed it in the daze of just getting through life? That happened to me recently at Manukau Festival of the Arts 2008.

Manukau is one of the most diverse districts in NZ with over 180 ethnic groups living in the surrounds, and nearly 40 percent speaking two or more languages (with Samoan being the most widely spoken language after English). It’s a place where new sub-divisions sit uneasily next to state housing ghettos, and roads often are the only barrier between utter poverty and suburban utopia.

Over the weekend I attended several different events in the final days of the festival: a writing workshop, an exhibition of work from students at Manukau School of Visual Arts, and a Pecha Kucha evening.

Highlights for me were… the work of final year student Raewyn Pope who made wonderful light installations using second hand and recycled materials.

Tin cans, plastic plates, old gardening implements…all of them were illuminated to create grass-roots chandeliers and glowing Tupperware. (I have a project in mind that I would love to entice her into;-)

I also liked Charlie Lu’s illuminated pictures depicted life in Auckland in shiny 2D, kitchy but fun.

Another student, Krystle Tavai, created an un-fictional suburb called Mannixville using life size figures and the graphic novel form. The feel of it was very south Auckland but the style was comic book/colouring-in book. This caught my eye because one of my current projects/experiments involves older youth creating books for younger children in their neighbourhoods.The idea of colouring books featuring pictures of people and things that kids can relate to in their own neighbourhood inspires me!. (This idea was generated by Tama Johnson at CEAT Ltd, the alternative education school I am collaborating with).

At the Pecha Kucha night http://www.pechakucha.co.nz/?page_id=6 held at the Telstra Pacific Centre, there were many standouts. Benjamin Work, a born again Christian graffiti artist who has achieved some degree of fame internationally with his grass-roots based work.
[if you are into some pretty innovative graffiti art see ANATs site! http://grl.anat.org.au/grl]

Siliga David Setoga who uses t-shirt as his medium for cultural commentary.

Other speakers included: Coco Solid an independent publisher revolutionary comic book creator and musician, Raymond Raymond Sagapolutele aka RIMONI ‘brotographer’at large in South Auckland, Matthew Salapu Faiumu aka ANONYMOUZ a classically trained pianist and rapper working with youth in the area and Andrew Tu’inukuafe architect who’s work in NZ is inspired by the idea of NZ as a pacific nation. Take a look at the site…I was incredibly inspired by the people who spoke, all of whom affirmed for me the tremendous creative power generated by diverse identity within close knit community.

PS: I also really enjoyed seeing people being forced to present well by nature of the format. Will definitely experiment with that format (20 photos of 20 seconds each) next time I run a gig.

educating for the future

Yesterday I visited Nextspace, a not for profit think tank, catalyst, mentoring organisation charged with facilitating the growth of 3D graphical communications technology. I had a tour of the facility and a demonstration of their some of their equipment. Butterflies and golf balls flew at me out of the screen!

Brenda Frisk, Nextspace's Business and Education Strategist, had some very switched on ideas about generating innovation in NZ and, more particularly, innovative thinking. If any of you are interested in models for generating innovative thinking among youth contact
www.nextspace.co.nz

Also....in a related way you may be interested in this article that came out of the recent Creative Australia Forum.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23480181-16947,00.html

I made a world on a biscuit today….

...at the Auckland City Art Gallery “Making Worlds” show http://www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz/exhibitions/0711makingworlds.asp

The exhibition places the work of esteemed artists alongside activity points where you can create a world on a cookie, inside a matchbox and various other mediums.

Standout experiences were Len Lye’s kinetic sculpture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Lye and an animation on 5 screens from Chicho Aoshima and Bruce Ferguson called “City Glow” (2005). www.superflatart.info/2007/11/city-glow.html

Making Worlds is on until 21^st January, 2008.

long time no speak

Yikes! I have been on the road a while now and have not posted anything. By way of making up for this hear is a potted summary of the highlights of my travels. Updates and comments will no doubt come during the 2 months I am about to spend in NZ!

THE WISDOM OF MAGICAL MYSTICAL TOURS

Back in early July, I attended the Wisdom University New Chatres School, France.

https://www.wisdomuniversity.org/Chartres/the-seven-intensives.htm

Wisdom is making a very brave attempt to bridge between academia and spirituality, and has re-instigated an ancient wisdom school that once operated from within the famous cathedral. I have always found that academic rigour and new age spirituality don’t mix well, so was curious to see if they could manage it. The short answer was no…but as a kind of hybrid spiritual learning experience I found it generally quite informative with some of the speakers listed below being particularly inspirational and worth looking up.

Lynn Bell, a world renowned astrologer, spoke eloquently about collective archetypes and astrology and their relationship to group and societal dynamics. She was a wonderful story teller and had an interesting way of linking seemingly dispirit concepts together.
http://www.whirledwydeweb.com/astrologyinbali/lynnbell.html

Jeremy Taylor, an expert on dream work ran sessions showing us how to dynamically, and ethically work with dreams as a device for personal and group growth. He was deeply passionate about his work and extremely skilled at dream analysis. His connection between psychological projection, and the transformative potential of group dream work was an avenue I intend to follow up in my research. I highly recommend his book: The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Universal Themes in Myths, Dreams, and the Symbolism of Waking Life.

http://www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/jeremybooks.html

Apela Colorado did not do a lot of speaking, but what she did say was worth listening to. I attended a session she ran on dream work and this contained some other of her material on indigenous science.

https://www.wisdomuniversity.org/febintensive-indigenous.html

Carolyn Myss, who spoke about her latest book based: “Entering the Castle – An Inner Path to God and Your Soul” based on the writings of Teresa of Ávila.

The metaphor of travelling through seven mansions in your spiritual growth was interesting…but after reading it I felt a bit worried that I hadn’t even gotten into the hallway of the semi-detached bungalow down the road.

http://www.myss.com/

Attending the course provided unparalleled access to historic and beautiful Chatres Cathedral, and is worth attending simply for that experience!

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING

Back to more recent times, in October I attended the 7^th Annual Transformational Learning Conference in Albuquerque, NM, USA.

http://tlc2007.unm.edu/program.html

The theme was ‘Issues of Difference and Diversity’ which many of you know is one of my professional areas of interest, and a tangential area of focus for my dissertation. Overall I found the conference interesting but noticed that the overwhelming focus was on individual cognitive development. Much of my own work involves working from a variety of perspectives and there didn’t seem to be much integral/multi-paradigmatic exploration present… at least not this year.

However, there were pockets of extremely interesting work. Teachers College - Columbia University, California Institute of Integral Studies and Fielding University sent some very switched on people, a few of whom I have kept in contact.

Also there was a morning session where non-US delegates were given space to discuss their individual areas of research. The speakers, which included researchers from Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and West Asia, came from a much more systemic, holistic perspective… which was refreshing!

A few of the keynotes were very good:

Dr.Arturo Ornelas: http://www.geoec.org/conference/article-ornelas.html and

Dr. Eliseo “Cheo”,Torres: http://www.csun.edu/~naspa/speakers_torres.htm provided and interesting perspective on transformative education. They have been working to acquaint the public on the importance of folk healing/indigenous medicine…and have created an interesting course at the University of New Mexico on this subject. Also they have some great things to say about egalitarian education.

In the last session of the conference: Stephen Brookfield: http://www.stephenbrookfield.com/ and Terrence Maltbia

http://www.icwconsulting.com/our_associates.html#maltbia

gave a great in their no holds barred look at “diversity” programmes and education. They were great at naming some dysfunctional dynamics that occur when engaging in (well meaning) discourses related to ‘white privilege’.

Overall it was useful to make contact with people who are extremely reflective and engaged practitioners, and if any of you want to know more please let me know as I can refer you to certain papers and references.

MUTAMORPHOSIS IN THE LAND OF KAFKA

Next I visited Prague, Czech Republic to learn what is happening in the interstices of art and science.

Part of the 40^th Anniversary of Leonardo www.leonardo.info, the Mutamorphosis Conference: http://www.mutamorphosis.org/conference was an interesting exploration of art and science collaboration and engagement.

If you take a look at the link you will see some mind bending papers on topics as varied as: Exo-Botany, Nano Art, Eco Sonifications, Memory Extension etc.

Highlights, for me were:

A panel discussion between the group I work with here in Brussels - http://www.fo.am/ and some other artistic contributors around human/plant interfaces was very engaging and asked us to consider communication in its most expansive sense.

An artist called Stelarc who gave a very disturbing seminar on Alternate Anatomical Architectures, climaxing with an unveiling of a human ear he has grown on his arm (I kid you not!) http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/

Roy Ascott(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott) who gave a talk entitled: “Terror Incognito: Steps to an Extremity of Mind” which I’m sure many of you will resonate with. The following is a quote from the abstract but nicely summarises the general gist of his current thought:

“Just as earlier societies approached the terra incognito of the unmapped planet with fearful caution, and our emergent military/police state uses for its own dominance the hostility of its ideological antagonists to exacerbate a climate of terror, so we are encouraged by our scientists and institutions of learning to fear the extreme conditions of mind, to see altered states of consciousness as a threat to the orthodoxies of being, and the stabilities of social norms. This fear prevents research into mind at anything beyond the crudest form of reductionism. The paradox is that the most extreme, unnatural and hostile territory of mind is actually within us, at the simple, everyday level of thought and behaviour. For it is here that we find the most impenetrable barriers to expanded consciousness, and an ecology of mind blighted and laid barren by the constraints of fundamentalist rationality, which has led to the death and extermination of scientific idealism. As global warming accelerates, it is as much the ecology of the mind as of the earth that needs attention."

Roger Malina, an astrophysicist who talked about dark matter. This wasn’t particularly new material, but I liked the user-friendly language he used for that context. http://www.leonardo.info/rolodex/malina.roger.html

http://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/espai/eng/art/malina.html

Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski, who talked about lots of different things including their investigation into extra-terrestrials, giant tesla coils in at Joshua Tree National Park and Blue Morph Butterflies. Probably the most interesting, and risk taking stuff I saw there…none the least that they actually dared to mention E.T.s!

http://c-lab.co.uk/default.aspx?id=5&blogid=841

See the conference abstracts at http://www.mutamorphosis.org/upload/files/2007/10/28/Bookofabstractsv1.0.pdf

Mutamorphosis was smaller part of the Enter 3 Festival, ttp://enter3.org/index.php?lang=en&node=114 which was taking place in various locations around Prague. Frank Malina’s Kinetic Art/Electric Paintings were one of the featured exhibits and I found these absolutely mind bending as works of art. Particularly since they were created in the 1950’s and 60’s but even now look like something out of a futuristic sci-fi movie set. More about Malina and his work can be found at http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/malina.php

CHANGING CLIMATE, CHANGING MINDS

My most recent jaunt was to the ‘Be the Change’ conference at Westminster, London. http://bethechange.org.uk/

Best described as a large gathering of people working for positive change, the conference has now been going for several years. In the past the general themes have centred on ecology, consciousness and spirituality. This year it narrowed and deepened the focus onto climate and environmental issues. (Perhaps with larger corporate sponsorship in mind!).

Many of the speakers here are worth mentioning, and I have provided links to most of their websites. I must say that this conference had the highest impact on me. The material provided was stark, and shook me at quite a deep level that I am only just now coming to terms with. It was all very well for me to have fun with artists and scientists and educators, and learning lots of things on a conceptual level. But it was here that the reality of what is being faced around the planet really hit home.

Speakers I recommend looking up:

Maude Barlow:

From the Blue Planet Project is working to stop commodification of world's water. She had some very scary stories of what is currently happening, and inspirational stories of what has already been done to conserve what we have all too long taken for granted.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/01/maude_barlow.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020902/barlow

www.canadians.org

Blue Gold: The Battle against corporate theft of the world’s water. 2003

Julia Hausermann

Founder of an international movement for the promotion and realisation of human rights and responsibilities. She promotes an innovative and very effective human rights approach to development and environmental issues.

See www.rightsandhumanity.org.

Frances Moore Lapp.

Is the Co-Founder of the Small Planet Institute, the Centre for Living Democracy and the Institute for Food and Development Policy. She has put together a lot of diverse material in an interesting way relating to the way humans engage together, the way we see the world and why, what causes us to be so destructive, and things that we can do to change this.

Take a look at http://www.smallplanetinstitute.org/

and http://www.gettingagrip.net/

She also cited Eric Fromm in her talk and his material was also quite interesting on the theme of what causes humans to go bad: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/fromm.html

Vandana Shiva

She does inspiring work with a particular interest in changing paradigms of agriculture and food. Her books include Violence of Green Revolution and Monocultures of the Mind both of which challenge non-sustainable, reductionist agricultural practices. Her recount of Indian farmer suicides due to Monsanto’s GM seed (mal) practices was heart wrenching…and her very practical and successful response was totally inspirational.

http://www.navdanya.org/

Rob Hopkins

Started the Transition Towns Movement, which is a community led approach to peak oil planning. Rob and his group are doing very innovative and successful community development work. They are developing combinations of tools that wake up large groups of people to important issues and are having a great deal of success at grass roots level.

www.transitionculture.org

www.transitiontowns.org

George Monbiot

An eloquent and extremely knowledgeable speaker who presented not only the reality of what is being faced re climate change and energy, but also very clear and tangible solutions that will deal with the problem.

www.monbiot.com

Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning. Allen Lane 2006

Stewart Wallis

Executive Director of the new economics foundation. http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/

nef, carry out many different initiatives to challenge our dominant global economic model. Several years ago I used nef’s social accounting model to help one of my client organisations to be more accountable socially and environmentally, as well as financially. http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/newways_socialaudit.aspx

nef are an interesting group and it is worth squirreling down into their website.

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PEOPLE I HAVE TALKED WITH RECENTLY:

In addition to conferencing I have talking to a number of interesting people recently. I will put more detailed notes on the site about my interviews but for now two highlights are:

F. David Peat, noted physicist and writer (author of twenty books including Synchronicity: The Bridge between Matter and Mind, Blackfoot Physics, Superstrings, The Blackwinged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind and From Certainty to Uncertainty). Last year I stayed at his centre in Italy and can strongly recommend it as a retreat space. Go to his site and take a look http://www.paricenter.com/ ...he also regularly runs extremely interesting conferences and workshops on the meeting points between indigenous and western epistemologies, art and science, religion and science and all things in between.

Tassos Stevens. Actor, Director, Guerilla Theatre and Alternate Realty Game Creator. A mysterious character who is working in a kind of trans-genre gap that subverts reality while at the same time building community and organisational cohesion in a very interesting way!

BOOKS

I am currently reading a bunch of great books that I will review in the months to come..in the meantime… I strongly recommend getting a copy of The Shift Report, 2007 by the Noetic Science Institute. http://www.shiftreport.org/

It is a document that puts together all of the most interesting breakthroughs and future trends in most major areas of interest: education, business, neuroscience, biology etc etc. IONS do some interesting stuff and are well worth supporting by becoming a member.

FINALLY AFTER ALL OF THIS I HAVE SOME AREAS FOR EVEN FURTHER INQUIRY

What are the most effective, creative, ethical and sustainable ways to facilitate growth in consciousness?

How can we best encourage and facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration, that builds bridges over the chasms of language, epistemology, territorialism and ego centeredness?

What the most effective ways to increase agency, participation and pro-activity on a mass scale?

labyrinths for the marginal

..an interview Iwan Brioc, Artistic Director of Cynefin Sensory Labyrinth Community Theatre.


Imagine yourself beginning a journey into darkness. Your senses are hightened..your body on high alert, watching, noticing. Slowly you wend your way through a juxtaposition of smell, material and sound encountering and noticing yourself, and others who may come into your path.

I am describing the world of sensory labyrinths, the speciality of a community theatre organisation called Cynefin. Working within marginalised communities Iwan and his colleagues have found new ways to connect people to themselves, each other and their environment. Local artists are brought together to create large labyrinthian structures made with different materials that are meaningful within the community and environmental context. Then local members of the public are invited to enter and experience the labyrinth on their own terms, and in their own way.

What originally drew me to Iwan's organisation was a quest to find hybrid forms where people, community, and some sense of the 'transpersonal' form the core of the design and intention. You cannot engage with the labyrinth as a spectacle to be viewed at a distance, in fact the very design prevents distant disinterest. In order to engage, you need to physically enter. You have the opportunity to feel, smell and meet other people. And, while Iwan occasionally uses professional actors to engage with participants, they are there to assist, not distract participants from the mindful sense of the present moment.

Another element that sets them apart is that the emphasis on generating awareness and mindful attention, rather than imposing a 'story' or 'idea'. The story unfolds within the minds of the participants using the shell that he and his collaborators create.

Participants enter the space one at time engaging with the different sensory portals, including thought and feeling. They experience themselves, and their relationship to 'The Other' in whatever form that takes, soft architecture, colour, sounds, artefacts of different kinds.

People often start terrified (or at least very unnerved) but then this leads to curiosity..the interaction between fear of curiousity triggers a childlike state that opens up many other possibilities..

Cynefin funds itself through grants and commissions, assisting them to work in edge space contexts rather than more commercial environments. They facilitate transdisciplinary connections between local artists, the public and their local environment and for this reason I find their work extremely interesting. It has implications for community building, intercultural engagement, and a number of other areas. I encourage you to take a look at their site and watch here for future developments and interviews...

Visit Iwan and Cynefin at http://www.cynefin.org.uk/cynefin.htm