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Authors:

 Bonshek, Anna; Fergusson, Lee. PANEL

Title:

 The Convergence of Science, Technology and Art in the New Millenium: Consciousness as a Field of Infinite Intelligence Which Structures Language, Physiology and Cosmology

Keywords:

 Intelligence, cognition, perception, architecture, cosmology.

Abstract:

 New developments in science and technology have impacted our conceptions of space, time, environment, and visual culture, and revealed a connection between the governing intelligence at the basis of the universe and human physiology and human experience, cognition, perception and communication. The presentations proposed in this panel will explore these developments as applied to the understanding of cognition, experience, cosmology and the development of the individual and culture in the coming millennium. Referring to a complete science and technology of consciousness, the relationship between the subjective realm of consciousness, the body and the environment will be articulated and examined in the context of computer visualizations, and work using video projection and digital media. This redefinition will take into account the intimate connection between "subject" and "object" seeing both of these as aspects of one continuum.

Presentations will consider: 1) the mathematical, sequential unfoldment of consciousness as it apparently forms the material world-including a computer-generated work which addresses this progression; 2) the correspondence between the structuring dynamics of consciousness and the physiology as discussed by Dr. Tony Nader, including a CD-ROM presentation of this theme; 3) the significance and utility of a cosmological Vedic Observatory with respect to perception, exploring the relative impact of an in situ full-size constructed Observatory, a scale model, and the advantages and limitations of a proposed virtual Observatory; 4) the potential role of the science of Vastu in creating architectural forms and spaces which can reflect and embody the relationship and dynamics of the planets of our solar system and the effect of these upon human life, demonstrated in visualizations of such architectural structures built in a 3D animation format; and 5) screening and exhibition of video projection work by Gillian Brown and Inga Frick dealing with identity and perception.
Bonshek, Anna. ABonshek@mum.edu Independent Anna Bonshek has exhibited work in England, Australia, Hong Kong and America, published articles in Artlink, New Art Examiner, College Student Journal, AN, Tractor, chapters in Visibly Female, Feminist Action I, exhibition catalogues on Maria Chevska and Michael Kane Taylor and curated exhibitions at the Des Moines Art Center, the University of Northern Iowa, and the Institute for the Creative Arts, Iowa. Awards received by the artist include curatorial grants, research and exhibition bursaries from ISEA'98, the Iowa Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Royal Society of Arts, London. Her forthcoming book Art: A Mirror of Consciousness, deals with consciousness, art and theory from the perspective of Vedic Science. Bonshek has taught in England, America and Australia, and was the founding Co-Rector of a new university in Cambodia; she is currently collaborating with Lee Fergusson on digitally manipulated series of images called Cultural Vectors based on research in Cambodia and with both Fergusson and Ralph Bunker on computer-generated work on the mathematics of consciousness language and cognition. Multiple Infinities, a computer animation work on which she collaborated, was presented at ISEA's Terror'98 and CAiiA-STAR's Consciousness Reframed II; her article Creating a Revolutionary Digital Summer in Artlink reviews the Australian contingent at these conferences. She has a B.A. in Fine Art from The Polytechnic Wolverhampton, a Higher Diploma in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and a Ph.D. in the Science of Creative Intelligence from Maharishi University of Management.

Fergusson, Lee. LFergusson@usagl.com Lee Fergusson has undergraduate and graduate degrees in visual art, art education and the Science of Creative Intelligence, specializing in art education. His dissertation researched explored the impact of a Vedic Science based postsecondary art curriculum on contemporary art theory and practice; noted art educator and psychologist Professor Rudolf Arnheim was a member of his dissertation committee. Fergusson has held ten solo exhibitions in Australia and the U.S. since 1975, and has participated in more than 150 group exhibitions in Australia, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Canada and the U.S. He has written criticism for New Art Examiner and Artlink, and has published research in journals such as Perceptual and Motor Skills, College Student Journal, Education and Research Perspectives, History of Education, Educational Research and Development, and Journal of Instructional Psychology. Fergusson has been a professor of visual art and art history and head of printmaking and drawing at a variety of institutions worldwide, including Bendigo College of Advanced Education (Australia), Queensland College of Art (Australia), Maharishi International University (USA), and was founding rector of Maharishi Vedic University Cambodia and Maharishi Vedic College (Australia).