Arts & Culture
Liminal Village
Confluence: Presentations
This year's evening program in the Liminal Village will once again feature a variety of multimedia presentations from an international line up of accomplished speakers.
Taking participants on a visionary flight into the spirit of the age, these keynote presentations will travel into the liminal spaces between people and the planet, exploring the edges and tracing the contours.
Confirmed presenters:
Erik Davis - 'The Analog Life'
Erik Davis writes and speaks regularly about music, consciousness, culture and spirituality. He is the author of "The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape," and "TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Information Age." He writes "The Analog Life" column for Arthur magazine, and posts regularly at www.techgnosis.com. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and an acoustic guitar.
Mark Pesce - ‘The Human Network’
Mark Pesce is a futurist, author, researcher and teacher, focusing on "digital anthropology" - that is, how the tools we use change our behavior, and how our behavior changes those tools.
Best known for his work blending the World Wide Web with virtual reality to create VRML, Pesce is the author of five books, including The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination, numerous articles, essays, and the director of several short films.
For the last three years, Pesce has focused on "social" technologies, which are changing the way we share, know, and empower ourselves. Read more of his work at http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com
Robert Venosa - ‘Some History, Thoughts and Images on Visionary Art’
www.venosa.com
The Visionary art of Robert Venosa has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in major collections, including those of noted museums, rock stars and European aristocracy.
If the most exciting art-making one can hope to encounter is an exploration of the furthest realities of the imagination, then Robert Venosa must surely rank among the luminaries of our era.
"Bravo Venosa! Dali is pleased to see spiritual madness painted with such a fine technique." - Salvador Dali
Martina Hoffmann - ‘Some History, Thoughts and Images on Visionary Art’
Martina Hoffmann, visionary artist, believes strongly in the healing powers of art. Her work has been informed by altered states of consciousness, and shows a deep connection to the sacred feminine.
Internationally exhibited and published, Hoffmann works in both the US and Spain.
“The visionary artist makes visible the more subtle states of consciousness and creates maps that directly reflect consciousness.
My work hopes to bring awareness to our interconnectedness with all life throughout the universe as well as to our oneness as a human family.
In using art as a tool for transformation, we have the opportunity to create a reality as beautiful, healthy and strong as our imagination permits.”
"Your images show an artistry in painting that suffices to produce amazement and admiration for which words fail me."
- Dr. Albert Hofmann, Switzerland
Matt Black - ‘Art, Music & Interconnectedness’
www.ninjatune.net
http://www.myspace.com/coldcut
From the era-defining debut single ‘Say Kids, What Time Is It?’ that introduced a generation to the delights of sampled music, their timeless Solid Steel radio show and the establishment of the revered Ninja Tune label, to their pioneering work at the vanguard of audio-visual milestones, Coldcut’s ability to remain radically visionary in their 20 year career is little short of astounding.
Join Matt Black, one of the founding members of world renowned Coldcut and Ninja Tune, for his exploration of the question; ‘how does one make art that promotes the realisation of interconnectedness?’. This will be a journey through audiovisual art, its techniques and history, leading into its contemporary political and spiritual relevance.
In addition, Matt will also be playing a DJ set at Groovy Beach.
Rick Doblin, Ph.D. - ‘Psychedelic Research: Toward a Global Spirituality’
Rick is the founder and president of MAPS. His dissertation (Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) was on "The Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana," and his master's thesis (Harvard) focused on the attitudes and experiences of oncologists concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida) was a twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim Leary's Concord Prison experiment.
Doblin has also studied with Stan Grof, M.D., and was in the first group to become certified as holotropic breathwork practitioners. His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and marijuana, primarily as prescription medicines but also for personal growth for otherwise "healthy" people, and to also become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist.
Pablo Amaringo - 'Ayahuasca Visions: Traversing Worlds'
www.pabloamaringo.com
Pablo Amaringo is one of the world's greatest visionary artists, renowned for his highly complex, colourful and intricate paintings of his ayahuasca visions. Trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of 10, Pablo gave up his practice in 1977 to become a full-time painter and art teacher at his Usko-Ayar school. His book, Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, co-authored with Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna, brought his work and the rich mythology of the Amazon to a wide audience in the West.
Andre Jaeger Soares - Sustainable Events and the Evolution of (Inter)cultural Paradigms
www.ecocentro.org
Andre Soares is a teacher, natural builder and permaculture designer. He founded the Permaculture Institute of Central Queensland in Australia and then returned to his native Brazil in 1997 where he co-founded the now prominent Ecocentro IPEC. As a diplomate of the Permaculture Institute of Australia Andre has taught more than 3000 people in permaculture design.
His leadership in sustainability has attracted a partnership with the Swiss foundation AVINA creating new projects in the area of low impact architecture and social development in Latin America. Andre is the sustainability manager for Boom Festival and has introduced a number of innovations on this area.
Lucia Legan - Sustainability Is Sexy
www.ecocentro.org
Lucia has worked in community development for more than 15 years with Aboriginal communities, women's groups, young people, and farmers. Since arriving in Brazil, she has co-founded both Ecocentro IPEC and the Mollison School for Sustainable Studies.
Lucia has authored a nationally selected prize winning environmental education guide called Escola Sustentável. She has recently launched a nationwide program ?Habitats na Escola, which empowers students, parents, and teachers with the skills to create sustainable habitats in the school.
Lucia is a diplomate of the Permaculture Institute of Australia.
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