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Electronic culture.

A new electronic culture is coalescing from the new esthetics and values—the new technology—the new extraterrestrial environment.

The artists and scientists and visionaries of this emerging culture express new worlds through new tools: high-resolution giant screens— supercomputer imageries—synthesizers and sound mixers and lasers— zero-gravity simulations.

The sounds and images and dance movements they produce cannot be created through the old art mediums.

It is this new electronic culture that is attracting and galvanizing most of today's artistic innovation.

Once you have reveled in the larger-than-life sweep of IMAX and giant-screen cinema and touch-and-enter video—it is difficult to go back to the yestercentury confinements of opera and theater.

Once you have been swept away by the undreamed-of kaleidoscopic imageries of videoart and videographics and special effects it is difficult to find value in perpetuating still paintings.

Once you have been mesmerized watching people literally dance in the air in zero gravity you can right away see'how inherently clumsy and labored all traditional and modern dances are.

Once you have dialogued with a supercomputer exchanging millions of bits of information in seconds you will be appalled by the self-indulgent sloppiness of a 500-page "literary" work.

Once you have awakened to the esthetics of a helicopter gyrating in the air or a supersonic aircraft gliding across the sky or a spacecraft storming the solar system it is perhaps easier to see that today's sculp­tures are everywhere around us—out of the confinement of museums and galleries.

Once you have listened to the limitless range of sounds and recom­binations of sounds—worldly and cosmic—biologic and synthetic— created with the help of computer seek-and-scan—synthesizers—light induction—etc. it is easier then to realize how one-dimensional all music—even great music—has been until now.

Once you have taken part in a global music festival—dancing and singing with thousands of people—and tens of thousands of others on giant-screen global TV hookups—it is difficult then to sit stiffly for three hours dressed in tight formal attire in the hushed atmosphere of a symphony hall for the very very serious business of listening to music.

The old culture was great in its time. But traditional culture does not point the way to the future.

A new vigorous electronic culture is urgently crystallizing. It may still at times be exploratory and undeveloped. But it signals magical worlds ahead.


Date: 2015-02-28; view: 877


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