Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] McLuhan net

On 12-Oct-11, at 2:17 AM, Avi Rosen wrote:

> Digital art is globally produced and distributed simultaneously at
> the speed
> of light, and within fraction of seconds reach any surfer worldwide.
> Artistic global interactivity equalized the speed of the artist, art
> object,
> and the art consumer. The cyber art cloud is monitored by search
> engines,
> hubs, social networks such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and
> Yahoo,
> involving about 2 billion of users and hundreds of thousands of
> servers
> that store in their memories the contents of around 1 trillion (as in
> 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once. (Google 2008).
>
> There is a dramatic change in characteristics of contemporary art
> made in
> such intensive electronic environment as described by McLuhan*
> (1964,),
> 'Today, when we have extended all parts of our bodies and senses by
> technology, we are haunted by the need for an outer consensus of
> technology
> and experience that would raise our communal lives to the level of a
> world-wide consensus'.


« Roots have spread out from the Tree of the Great Peace,
one to the north, one to the east, one to the south and one to
the west. The name of these roots is The Great White Roots and
their nature is Peace and Strength.
If any man or any nation outside the Five Nations shall
obey the laws of the Great Peace and make known their
disposition to the Lords of the Confederacy, they may trace the
Roots to the Tree and if their minds are clean and they are
obedient and promise to obey the wishes of the Confederate
Council, they shall be welcomed to take shelter beneath the
Tree of the Long Leaves.
We place at the top of the Tree of the Long Leaves an
Eagle who is able to see afar. If he sees in the distance any
evil approaching or any danger threatening he will at once warn
the people of the Confederacy. »


The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
The Great Law of Peace
The Great Binding Law
GAYANASHAGOWA

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