Mx.D.P

First will there be a future?

Yes if we are brave and bold…

The Earth will exceed 1.5c warming.

The IPCC report says large parts of the Earth will become uninhabitable shortly. Which means mass migration, government instability, civil unrest and war.

The climate is not only getting hotter, but it is becoming unstable.

If all humans and our food stock animals were teleported off the planet right now, it wouldn’t stop the inevitable climate change because the Co2 we are pumping in today will last hundreds/thousands of years, the methane farted out by ruminant farm animals that outnumber natural animals 30 : 1 will only last a dozen years, but each molecule of methane traps more heat than a molecule of Co2.

You see we (humans) f*cked it, and we are the only ones that can fix it!

Leave now and the Earth still burns…

To use an aviation metaphor, all we can do now is slow the plane down, enter the hold and develop carbon sequestration technology and wait patiently for it to come online and scrub the atmosphere, while juggling civil unrest, stopping youth anxiety and paralysis, infiltrating big tech with young creatives to halt the power mongrels fiddling while Rome burns.

We need to inform and empower generations of creatives to hold the line

But how do we do this? Science and politicians have failed to provide joined up thinking and communications to get this task done.

Could Art and the creative sector be the answer? Alex Schady Programme Director of the CSM Art Programme asks how a future art school might look and this is my response:-

Formal Lectures, Tutorials, Workshops and Seminars would be replaced by the XD Happens

The XD (cross discipline) Happens invites you to participate or not in a multiplicity of modes, materials and intersectionality of ironic materiality and method with good Humour…

We integrate AFK (away from keyboard) or in-game (depends on location of body) with the creatives of the World.

Perspectives are needs that are altering to Glitch the systems of power engagement…

We together and dis-separate the experience participate or not… art becomes the emerging technology which forms a new integrated being of the World… are you online/in-game is now not asked… we always are…

In person in place now has no understanding… but may happens…

The lecturer becomes the Dance Commander… and in real-time curates the Happens :-

Live- or/not-performances theatre-music-dance

The Visuals-installations/virtual-reality

Experience-interactive-science

Becomes The Network.

Art is The New-Renaissance drives the disciplines.

The past named science, technology, engineering, mathematics, economic/politicals become defunct concepts as there is no human/humane/multispecies/earth/kindness WithoutArt…

WithoutArt is now seen as a human folly that nearly destroyed the Earth.

Happens explore complex concepts and ideas in a dynamic and engaging manner or don’t engage as is fitting mental mode.

The students (now known as idea generators) will interact or not depending on mental mode with digital simulations, explore virtual landscapes, and participate in AFK aspects to generate the mutual Happens and develop together Critical Thinking Creativity…

The VR/AR gear… will BE the Network.

Grid up the on-line/in-game…

The Happens Dance Commander need not be in person/or person or happens to be so…

Que-ups the gram and ‘docials’ to CriticalThink the new Creative and to De-bunk the lies… becomes the ideas-generators.