"What authenticates the visionary today is the meanings that emerge through them, as they circulate through overlapping communities of perception. The solo artist as modern shaman is an old story. Today the visionary artist is less important than the visionary culture they seed, an expanding planetary network with art as one of its many nodes"

- Erik Davis, 'True Visions' www.techgnosis.com

VISIONARY ART CULTURE CREATORS PANEL
Boom Festival 2008, Portugal
Liminal Media Stream

"Fantastic and Visionary is a journey of self discovery.
Along with discovering ourselves, we are discovering, that we are not alone.
Fantastic Visionary artists show us that there other possibilities, limitless ones, if we allow ourselves to dream.
We are the community that is unafraid to dream."

- Leo Plaw (www.leoplaw.com)

Presented by the Elvish Nation, Pod Collective, Elfintome and Crystal and Spore, this historic panel connects key art culture creators from North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. Exploring the role and place of art in the new culture, this is a tributary in a 120 hr curriculum confluence featuring over 30 presenters and artists from 23 countries. Over the course of a week the liminal village conference and gallery hosted many of the 30,000 festival goers from 80 countries.

For an exploration of boom festival check www.boomfestival.org or see the 2008 pod drop at http://podcollective.com/fora/viewtopic.php?t=950

Visionary Art Culture Creators Panel

CONCEPT STEWARD AND MC : Delvin Solkinson (www.elvism.net)
DJ : Naasko Wripple (www.interchill.com)
VJ : Sijay James (www.onbeyondmetamedia.com

ART PANEL :
Leo Plaw (www.leoplaw.com)
Carey Thompson (www.galactivation.com)
Andrew Jones (www.androidjones.com)
Laurence Caruana (www.lcaruana.com)

DEW DROP :
Our cusp culture is borne into an age of deep transformation, ripe with new avenues for expression and artistic evolution. In a world of rapidly dissolving borders and boundaries, the separation between the worlds of the imaginal and the worlds of the material are deepening their weave. With access to the knowledge and history of all cultures of the world, what was once separated by distance and language, is now being melded together. We now have access to the history of art from all different artistic traditions. The modern artist is steeped in influences from all artistic genres and art eras.

Fueled by the worldwideweb and vast evolutions in the quality of communications technologies, artists everywhere are being empowered to share their work with an increasingly global audience. Nodes, collectives, forums and galleries are emerging to represent countries, continents and even newly globalized art culture movements. It is a time potentized with the possibility of a civilization reconnected with its imaginal roots in the dreamy expanses of the limitless human imagination. Art culture represents a return to a resacrelized, respiritualized and revitalized future in which the engines of technoindustrial materialism redirect its energies from plastic toys and thing fetishism to immersive multimedia environments and a reconnection with the natural world.

Advances in communications technology means artists who at one time were limited to representing in their own country can now share their work globally. In this way living artistic traditions all over the earth are influencing and being influenced by each other simultaneously. A global art culture is getting connected and with it come undreampt of potentials for collaborative artistic evolution. There is a new sheen on the surface of what art means for human culture and what potentials it has to shape the context into which the future culture is being birthed.

NETWORK LINKS :

contact for hardcopy media link : delvin@crystalandspore.com