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Subject: PARADOX Seminar event at Arcosanti AZ 10/24-26 
        
        
                          Verbum and the Cosanti Foundation
                              are pleased to announce
        
                                  the first annual
                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                  PARADOX SEMINAR
                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        Urban designer and philosopher Paolo Soleri, the Cosanti
Foundation and the
        residents of Arcosanti invite you to an experiential conference
on
        cyberspace, arcology and human evolution. Join us for a weekend
of critical
        discourse, music, immersive media, and the experience of
Arcosanti, a
        prototype 21st century town in the Arizona high desert.
        
        Weekend Retreat at Arcosanti, Arizona
        October 24-26, 1997
        
        * Paolo Soleri Presentation: The Paradox Project
        * Panel Discussions
        * Ambient Salon
        * Techno Concert/Dance
        * River Walk
        * Cafe at Arcosanti Cuisine
        
        PANELISTS
        
        * Scott Fisher - virtual reality pioneer (Telepresence Research)
        * John Graham - internet video entrepreneur/nanotechnology
expert (Graham
        Technology Solutions)
        * Michael Gosney - multimedia publisher/producer (Verbum)
        * Michael O'Rourke - new media producer/theorist (Dimension 7)
        * Mark Pesce - co-inventor, VRML (Blitcom)
        * Paolo Soleri - urban designer, philosopher (Cosanti
Foundation)
        * David Traub - new media producer/consultant (Inner Ecology
Software)
         (others to be announced)
        
        MUSIC
        Ceiba - Kode 4/Adam Om, Claire Corich, Ethan Miller, Eric
Kalabacos
        
        VISUALS
        Dimension7, Verbum
        
        SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
        
        Friday, October 24
        2:00 - 5:00 pm          Registration            Visitor Center
Gallery
        6:30                    Night Bronze Pour       Foundry
        7:00                    Dinner                  Cafe
        8:30                    Welcome Presentation    Music Center
Amphitheater
        9:00 - 12:00            Ambient Salon           Vault
        
        Saturday, October 25
        7:30 - 9:00 am          Breakfast Buffet        Cafe
        9:00 - 8:00 pm          Exhibits/DemonstrationsVault, Ceramics,
Gallery
        9:00 am                 Panel Discussion        Music Center
Amphitheater
        12:00 pm                Lunch                   Cafe
        1:00                    Presentation            Music Center
Amphitheater
        2:00                    Panel Discussion        Music Center
Amphitheater
        4:00                    Panel Discussion        Music Center
Amphitheater
        5:30                    Performance             Vault
        6:30 - 8:00             Dinner Buffet           Cafe
        9:00                    Pictograph Performance  Sky Theatre
        10:00                   Techno Concert/Dance    Vault
        
        Sunday, October 26
        9:00 - 2:00             Brunch Buffet           Cafe
        12:00 - 4:00            Ambient Salon           Vault
        2:00 - 3:30             River Walk              Agua Fria River
        4:00                    Fini Ritual             Vault
        
        
        ACCOMMODATIONS
        Camping on Arcosanti grounds is $15 per night. Rooms available
within 30
        minutes of the site. Request a complete list of accommodations
in Prescott
        and Sedona via email: shiflett@aztec.asu.edu, or contact: AZ
Tourist Bureau
        888-249-8470, AZ Assoc. Of B&Bs 800-284-2589, 1800-OUTWEST
Reservations
        800-688-9378, 1800-GO-Sedona Reservations, 800-467-3366, Red
Rock
        Reservations 800-890-0521, Sedona Central Reservations
800-445-4128, Sedona
        On-Line, Inc.  www.sedona.net.
        
        TICKETS
        Full weekend            $150 ($200 after October 1)
        Camping                 $15 per night
        
        REGISTRATION
        Send check for $150 per person (made payable to "Cosanti
Foundation") to
        Paradox Seminar, Arcosanti, Box HC74, Mayer, AZ 86333. A
complete
        registration package will be sent to attendees in September.
ATTENDANCE IS
        LIMITED! Contact Mark Shiflett, Registration Coordinator at
520-632-7135 or
        via email at shiflett@aztec.asu.edu for more information.
        
        THE PARADOX PROJECT   The Cosanti Foundation is planning to
start
        construction of the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Complex on the
south slopes
        of Arcosanti.  The complex is mainly intended to be the eventual
residence
        and work place for participants in the Paradox Program, those
digital
        "insiders" who are at home on the Internet, working in digital
media,
        developing their nexus with Cyberspace.
        
        The Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Complex:
                - Loggia
                - Greenhouses
                - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Cloister
        
        The complex is named after the Jesuit priest and paleontologist
who in the
        1940s presented the idea of the Noosphere, an anticipation of
the Internet
        and Cyberspace.
        
        "The experience will not be in the domain of hyper-consumption
encouraged
        by our culture and by Cyberspace, but in the domain of
frugality.  We
        choose frugality in view of its hold on interiorization and its
coherence
        with the limitations and the glories of the planet.
        
        Since Arcosanti is a place in search of the miniaturized by way
of
        complexity, and since cyberspace is a non-place in search of the
complex by
        way of miniaturization, I am proposing an internship for
insider-outsider
        interaction via the practice of building and living in a
non-virtual
        environment frugally imprinted, a habitat dedicated to
urbanization."
        --- Paolo Soleri
        
        NEO-MONASTIC INTERNSHIP   The Paradox Project's neo-monastic
internship
        program will offer participants the chance to live, study and
work at
        Arcosanti, with a primary focus on the construction of the
Teilhard de
        Chardin complex. Study and discourse will be encouraged, though
Soleri has
        observed that "we are offering not a contemplative Buddhahood,
but an
        active and less narcissistic 'cement mixer-hood.'" Complete
internet
        connectivity will be offered for personal work and activities,
which will
        be combined with the 5 hour per day, 5 day per week construction
schedule.
        
        PAOLO SOLERI AND ARCOSANTI   Paolo Soleri, born in Turin, Italy,
awarded a
        PhD from the Torino Polytechnico in 1946, came to the U.S. in
1947 to study
        with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West. He settled in
Scottsdale, Arizona
        in 1956. Soleri's urban design ideas have since been developing
in the form
        of the landmark 1971 MIT Press book, "Arcology: the City in the
Image of
        Man" and various other books, touring exhibitions, the Cosanti
        studio/foundry compound in Scottsdale, and Arcosanti,  a
prototype arcology
        for 7000 people 60 miles north of Phoenix near Cordes Junction,
Arizona.
        "Arcology" is a term coined by Soleri to describe the concept of
        architecture and ecology working as one integral process to
produce new
        urban habitats. Arcosanti is an "urban laboratory" experimenting
with basic
        arcological design ideas, combining a compact, complex urban
structure with
        large scale solar greenhouses on 10 acres of a 4000 acre
preserve. Even
        though the existing structures at Arcosanti represent less than
10% of what
        will be the finished arcology, the site has a lively community,
a stream of
        visitors (it is an official Arizona tourist site) and has hosted
many
        festivals, conferences, music performances and educational
programs since
        the late 1970s. [ http://www.arcosanti.org ]
        
        PRODUCED BY VERBUM AND COSANTI   The Paradox Seminar is a joint
production
        of multimedia publisher Verbum, producer of San Francisco's
annual Digital
        Be-In, and the Cosanti Foundation, a not-for-profit, public
educational
        foundation devoted to the support of Paolo Soleri's
architectural and urban
        planning research.
        
        VERBUM   Verbum, Inc. is a San Francisco-based multimedia
publisher and
        production group founded in 1986 by Michael Gosney, Cosanti
Foundation
        Board member and director of the Paradox Seminar.  The firm's
Verbum
        Journal was an influential magazine for early digital artists
and
        cyberculture aficionados, and Verbum Interactive, published
mid-1991, was
        one of the first multimedia CD-ROMs. Producer of many
instructional
        books/CD-ROMs for digital media professionals, Verbum has just
completed
        its first consumer product, Peter Norton's PC Guru CD-ROM.
Verbum has
        produced numerous events, including CyberArts International, the
Imagine
        Exhibit of digital art, and the Annual Digital Be-In in San
Francisco.
        [paradox@verbum.com - http://www.verbum.com -
http://www.be-in.com ]
        
        PARADOX SEMINAR TOUCHSTONES
        
        Themes:
        
        * Paradox Project - neomonastic internship program at Arcosanti
        * Cross-disciplinary Philosophical Discourse vs. the Corporate
Cyber-elite
        * Cyberspace/Cityspace
        * Morphogenetic origins of digital media
        * Carbon and Silicon - evolutionary symbiosis?
        * Electronic Media (the basic plumbing), Cyberspace (the design
of the
        human metamind), and the Noosphere (the emergent "cosmic" holon)
        * The Web, Immersive Media, and New Inner Dimensions
        
        Proposition:
        
        Understanding our relationship to the planetary organism - on
magnetic,
        ecological, biological/ chemical, and noetic levels - would seem
to be
        essential for the fully conscious and conscientious development
of a
        human/Gaian "metamind." The intelligent design of the cyberspace
interface/
        network would ideally incorporate the proven systems and
techniques of the
        natural world, such as:
                - miniaturization for increased complexity/richness
                - distributed processing
                - fractal memory
                - fuzzy logic
                - pattern recognition
                - holonomic networks
                - redundancy, redundancy, redundancy
        
        The full realization of the elegant underpinnings of the
metamind might not
        be best left solely in the hands of the existing cyber-elite -
the digerati
        (the powerhouses of the industry and culture) and the cybernauts
(the
        hands-on builders and early inhabitants of cyberspace). A
broader vision,
        more encompassing dialogue and cross-disciplinary cooperation
for this
        great evolutionary work is needed.
        
        The steady exponential increase in microprocessor performance
during the
        short and tumultuous history of the digital realm is astounding
given the
        seeming influence that individuals and institutions have had
over the
        process in the trial-and-error, survival-of-the-fittest
battleground of the
        commercial marketplace. The almost spontaneous emergence of the
hypermedia
        World Wide Web is an even more obvious example of something
bigger at work:
        it is a remarkable creation that seems to transcend the
individual cells -
        the brilliant hackers and aggressive marketers and savvy venture
        capitalists - who are contributing the code-genes and tech-flesh
of this
        new organism.  It would appear that the entire electro-digital
media field
        is not so much created by us as coming through us, using us, in
a
        morpho-genetically programmed evolution toward some greater
whole that we
        are just beginning to perceive. Given this scenario, the
fear-driven,
        profit-motivated, ego-competitive, cyber-elite that gave birth
to the
        fundamental tools and systems is in need of a complementary
        cross-disciplinary consensus on the advanced design and
development of
        cyberspace.
        
        We are at a critical juncture on many fronts in the short and
tumultuous
        history of the human species. Digital media, with the potential
it offers
        for a quantum leap in human consciousness (through education,
personal
        growth, new perceptual tools, and enhanced communication), could
spawn a
        new wave of cooperative genius in our societies, bringing about
the
        invention and vision we need to overcome the adverse affects of
our
        primitive technologies on the Gaian ecosystem, to appropriately
manage our
        global population, and to support a new phase of cosmic human
evolution.
        
        It is the intention of the Paradox Seminar and the Paradox
Project program
        at Arcosanti to contribute to these developments.
        
        ---Michael Gosney, Conference Director
        
        VERBUM, INC.
        123 Townsend Street, Suite 645
        San Francisco, CA 94107
        415-777-9901
        fax 415-777-9929
        www.verbum.com
        
        COSANTI FOUNDATION
        www.arcosanti.org
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                  Verbum and the Cosanti Foundation
                      are pleased to announce

                          the first annual
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                          PARADOX SEMINAR
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Urban designer and philosopher Paolo Soleri, the Cosanti Foundation and
the
residents of Arcosanti invite you to an experiential conference on
cyberspace, arcology and human evolution. Join us for a weekend of
critical
discourse, music, immersive media, and the experience of Arcosanti, a
prototype 21st century town in the Arizona high desert.

Weekend Retreat at Arcosanti, Arizona
October 24-26, 1997

* Paolo Soleri Presentation: The Paradox Project
* Panel Discussions
* Ambient Salon
* Techno Concert/Dance
* River Walk
* Cafe at Arcosanti Cuisine

PANELISTS

* Scott Fisher - virtual reality pioneer (Telepresence Research)
* John Graham - internet video entrepreneur/nanotechnology expert
(Graham
Technology Solutions)
* Michael Gosney - multimedia publisher/producer (Verbum)
* Michael O'Rourke - new media producer/theorist (Dimension 7)
* Mark Pesce - co-inventor, VRML (Blitcom)
* Paolo Soleri - urban designer, philosopher (Cosanti Foundation)
* David Traub - new media producer/consultant (Inner Ecology Software)
 (others to be announced)

MUSIC
Ceiba - Kode 4/Adam Om, Claire Corich, Ethan Miller, Eric Kalabacos

VISUALS
Dimension7, Verbum

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, October 24
2:00 - 5:00 pm          Registration            Visitor Center Gallery
6:30                    Night Bronze Pour       Foundry
7:00                    Dinner                  Cafe
8:30                    Welcome Presentation    Music Center
Amphitheater
9:00 - 12:00            Ambient Salon           Vault

Saturday, October 25
7:30 - 9:00 am          Breakfast Buffet        Cafe
9:00 - 8:00 pm          Exhibits/DemonstrationsVault, Ceramics, Gallery
9:00 am                 Panel Discussion        Music Center
Amphitheater
12:00 pm                Lunch                   Cafe
1:00                    Presentation            Music Center
Amphitheater
2:00                    Panel Discussion        Music Center
Amphitheater
4:00                    Panel Discussion        Music Center
Amphitheater
5:30                    Performance             Vault
6:30 - 8:00             Dinner Buffet           Cafe
9:00                    Pictograph Performance  Sky Theatre
10:00                   Techno Concert/Dance    Vault

Sunday, October 26
9:00 - 2:00             Brunch Buffet           Cafe
12:00 - 4:00            Ambient Salon           Vault
2:00 - 3:30             River Walk              Agua Fria River
4:00                    Fini Ritual             Vault


ACCOMMODATIONS
Camping on Arcosanti grounds is $15 per night. Rooms available within 30
minutes of the site. Request a complete list of accommodations in
Prescott
and Sedona via email: shiflett@aztec.asu.edu, or contact: AZ Tourist
Bureau
888-249-8470, AZ Assoc. Of B&Bs 800-284-2589, 1800-OUTWEST Reservations
800-688-9378, 1800-GO-Sedona Reservations, 800-467-3366, Red Rock
Reservations 800-890-0521, Sedona Central Reservations 800-445-4128,
Sedona
On-Line, Inc.  www.sedona.net.

TICKETS
Full weekend            $150 ($200 after October 1)
Camping                 $15 per night

REGISTRATION
Send check for $150 per person (made payable to "Cosanti Foundation") to
Paradox Seminar, Arcosanti, Box HC74, Mayer, AZ 86333. A complete
registration package will be sent to attendees in September. ATTENDANCE
IS
LIMITED! Contact Mark Shiflett, Registration Coordinator at 520-632-7135
or
via email at shiflett@aztec.asu.edu for more information.

THE PARADOX PROJECT   The Cosanti Foundation is planning to start
construction of the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Complex on the south
slopes
of Arcosanti.  The complex is mainly intended to be the eventual
residence
and work place for participants in the Paradox Program, those digital
"insiders" who are at home on the Internet, working in digital media,
developing their nexus with Cyberspace.

The Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Complex:
        - Loggia
        - Greenhouses
        - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Cloister

The complex is named after the Jesuit priest and paleontologist who in
the
1940s presented the idea of the Noosphere, an anticipation of the
Internet
and Cyberspace.

"The experience will not be in the domain of hyper-consumption
encouraged
by our culture and by Cyberspace, but in the domain of frugality.  We
choose frugality in view of its hold on interiorization and its
coherence
with the limitations and the glories of the planet.

Since Arcosanti is a place in search of the miniaturized by way of
complexity, and since cyberspace is a non-place in search of the complex
by
way of miniaturization, I am proposing an internship for
insider-outsider
interaction via the practice of building and living in a non-virtual
environment frugally imprinted, a habitat dedicated to urbanization."
--- Paolo Soleri

NEO-MONASTIC INTERNSHIP   The Paradox Project's neo-monastic internship
program will offer participants the chance to live, study and work at
Arcosanti, with a primary focus on the construction of the Teilhard de
Chardin complex. Study and discourse will be encouraged, though Soleri
has
observed that "we are offering not a contemplative Buddhahood, but an
active and less narcissistic 'cement mixer-hood.'" Complete internet
connectivity will be offered for personal work and activities, which
will
be combined with the 5 hour per day, 5 day per week construction
schedule.

PAOLO SOLERI AND ARCOSANTI   Paolo Soleri, born in Turin, Italy, awarded
a
PhD from the Torino Polytechnico in 1946, came to the U.S. in 1947 to
study
with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West. He settled in Scottsdale,
Arizona
in 1956. Soleri's urban design ideas have since been developing in the
form
of the landmark 1971 MIT Press book, "Arcology: the City in the Image of
Man" and various other books, touring exhibitions, the Cosanti
studio/foundry compound in Scottsdale, and Arcosanti,  a prototype
arcology
for 7000 people 60 miles north of Phoenix near Cordes Junction, Arizona.
"Arcology" is a term coined by Soleri to describe the concept of
architecture and ecology working as one integral process to produce new
urban habitats. Arcosanti is an "urban laboratory" experimenting with
basic
arcological design ideas, combining a compact, complex urban structure
with
large scale solar greenhouses on 10 acres of a 4000 acre preserve. Even
though the existing structures at Arcosanti represent less than 10% of
what
will be the finished arcology, the site has a lively community, a stream
of
visitors (it is an official Arizona tourist site) and has hosted many
festivals, conferences, music performances and educational programs
since
the late 1970s. [ http://www.arcosanti.org ]

PRODUCED BY VERBUM AND COSANTI   The Paradox Seminar is a joint
production
of multimedia publisher Verbum, producer of San Francisco's annual
Digital
Be-In, and the Cosanti Foundation, a not-for-profit, public educational
foundation devoted to the support of Paolo Soleri's architectural and
urban
planning research.

VERBUM   Verbum, Inc. is a San Francisco-based multimedia publisher and
production group founded in 1986 by Michael Gosney, Cosanti Foundation
Board member and director of the Paradox Seminar.  The firm's Verbum
Journal was an influential magazine for early digital artists and
cyberculture aficionados, and Verbum Interactive, published mid-1991,
was
one of the first multimedia CD-ROMs. Producer of many instructional
books/CD-ROMs for digital media professionals, Verbum has just completed
its first consumer product, Peter Norton's PC Guru CD-ROM. Verbum has
produced numerous events, including CyberArts International, the Imagine
Exhibit of digital art, and the Annual Digital Be-In in San Francisco.
[paradox@verbum.com - http://www.verbum.com - http://www.be-in.com ]

PARADOX SEMINAR TOUCHSTONES

Themes:

* Paradox Project - neomonastic internship program at Arcosanti
* Cross-disciplinary Philosophical Discourse vs. the Corporate
Cyber-elite
* Cyberspace/Cityspace
* Morphogenetic origins of digital media
* Carbon and Silicon - evolutionary symbiosis?
* Electronic Media (the basic plumbing), Cyberspace (the design of the
human metamind), and the Noosphere (the emergent "cosmic" holon)
* The Web, Immersive Media, and New Inner Dimensions

Proposition:

Understanding our relationship to the planetary organism - on magnetic,
ecological, biological/ chemical, and noetic levels - would seem to be
essential for the fully conscious and conscientious development of a
human/Gaian "metamind." The intelligent design of the cyberspace
interface/
network would ideally incorporate the proven systems and techniques of
the
natural world, such as:
        - miniaturization for increased complexity/richness
        - distributed processing
        - fractal memory
        - fuzzy logic
        - pattern recognition
        - holonomic networks
        - redundancy, redundancy, redundancy

The full realization of the elegant underpinnings of the metamind might
not
be best left solely in the hands of the existing cyber-elite - the
digerati
(the powerhouses of the industry and culture) and the cybernauts (the
hands-on builders and early inhabitants of cyberspace). A broader
vision,
more encompassing dialogue and cross-disciplinary cooperation for this
great evolutionary work is needed.

The steady exponential increase in microprocessor performance during the
short and tumultuous history of the digital realm is astounding given
the
seeming influence that individuals and institutions have had over the
process in the trial-and-error, survival-of-the-fittest battleground of
the
commercial marketplace. The almost spontaneous emergence of the
hypermedia
World Wide Web is an even more obvious example of something bigger at
work:
it is a remarkable creation that seems to transcend the individual cells
-
the brilliant hackers and aggressive marketers and savvy venture
capitalists - who are contributing the code-genes and tech-flesh of this
new organism.  It would appear that the entire electro-digital media
field
is not so much created by us as coming through us, using us, in a
morpho-genetically programmed evolution toward some greater whole that
we
are just beginning to perceive. Given this scenario, the fear-driven,
profit-motivated, ego-competitive, cyber-elite that gave birth to the
fundamental tools and systems is in need of a complementary
cross-disciplinary consensus on the advanced design and development of
cyberspace.

We are at a critical juncture on many fronts in the short and tumultuous
history of the human species. Digital media, with the potential it
offers
for a quantum leap in human consciousness (through education, personal
growth, new perceptual tools, and enhanced communication), could spawn a
new wave of cooperative genius in our societies, bringing about the
invention and vision we need to overcome the adverse affects of our
primitive technologies on the Gaian ecosystem, to appropriately manage
our
global population, and to support a new phase of cosmic human evolution.

It is the intention of the Paradox Seminar and the Paradox Project
program
at Arcosanti to contribute to these developments.

---Michael Gosney, Conference Director

VERBUM, INC.
123 Townsend Street, Suite 645
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-777-9901
fax 415-777-9929
www.verbum.com

COSANTI FOUNDATION
www.arcosanti.org
Lou Dallara   Techno Visionary		Reduce..Reuse..Recycle
http://www.waterw.com/~ldallara       http://www.arcosanti.org
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