ANTONY GORMLEY

could storytelling be the connection between math and art??

- in "the Blessing of Babel" an essay by Jean Paul Van Bendegem, he posits that math is a method of storytelling.

-although social attitude in a colonized space believes the tale of mathematics before the wisdom of storytelling.


- the danger is to avoid the arbitrary strings between two things: coincidence is ever present and alluding, art thrives in it while math is foiled by it.

What do

mathematicians

find beautiful ?

interested in DATA...

encoding it...

storing it...

retrieving it...

passing it through generations ...

Put love in tea instead of sugar, and take it looking at the stars.

what is sacred ?

where is sacred ?

it all comes back



to storytelling...

going forward unchanged seems dangerous

going backwards seems counterproductive

How can we tell modern stories to heal ?

i think i might have to write something for this project. language seems important...

or perhaps a video?

if we're post-literate

"Such digital technologies are archetypal “cool media.” They offer “low-definition” sensory content that gives stimulus while requiring involvement, participation, and generative filling-in of meaning on the part of users. This is distinct from the “hot media” of the printed word, which demands sustained concentration on a finished product."

almost referencing the turing machine method of computing for humans ...

"From the personal to the civilizational, the global village is subsuming everything. It has upended family life by, for instance, turning generations against one another. The recent rise in Boomer radicalization is a phenomenon that McLuhan observed in the 1960s when this cohort was young. It is now repeating itself in their old age. It has also warped how states and corporations conduct their affairs, enshrining the irony, snark, and pettiness of social media as new norms of public exchange."

*i'm interested in our relationships with our elders considering this polarization*

*how do we heal this relationship?
*how do we re- learn how to listen ?

On January 8th, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms banned the president on the grounds that he incited violence. It remains to be seen whether this ban will be permanent. His most vocal allies, enablers, and followers were banned as well. Conservatives cried foul, claiming that this was something that could only happen in places like China, not in the land of the free. Many on the center and the left, on the other hand, simply acquiesced to it. This legitimized the power of the tech monopolies to exercise editorial control over public speech, as long as it had the right political orientation.

"Progress is possible for the literate man because history is, to him, linear and teleological: for the

oral-tribal man, however, history can only be described either as static or circular."

"For literate man, speech, along with public discourse in general, is a dialectic means to an end: inquiry and experimentation are welcome because the unfettered exercise of reason will allow for rights to be confirmed, wrongs to be discarded, and truth to be arrived at eventually. For oral man, on the other hand, speech is how tales and legends are told and the eternal wisdom transmitted: truth does not need to be arrived at, because it is already here and always has been."