I was born in San Francisco, CA in 1978. I have been living and working as an artist in Tucson AZ for the past 16 years.
"With the kinds of problems facing the world....if the expansion if consciousness does not loom large in the human future, then what kind of future is it going to be???" --- Terence Mckenna ---
And it is clear to me that the spreading of memes will be the primary catalyst for the salvation of the species. As an artist and thinker, my basic function is the acquisition, processing and spreading of memes. If I am doing any of these things, then I am doing art. The artist is the rudder of humanity whose job it is to direct the corse of civilization, to guide the flow of culture. I was shocked to read this paraphrased idea in the introduction to a humanities textbook when I was about 20. Arrogance? Megolomaniacal? No. The march towards greater consciousness is inevitable and it's responsibility rests on the shoulders of no individual (luckily). But it can be helped along by each thoughtful mind adding into the stream.
The ideas of great thinkers of the past are many but there is still so much to do. To use art of every medium to translate, sift and reconfigure the data. To make them accessible to every kind of mind. To cast light on analogies and connections that had not been seen before. Technology will enable and create new forms of media that will uncover new insights, in an unending feedback loop of creativity and information.
Neil A. Collins
neilcollinsartist@gmail.com
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