International Festival Talks to Rotterdam

On the 12 January International Festival was invited to give a presentation under the framework of First World Camp, a project initiated by Emil Hrvatin and Peter Senk which durin the spring of 2006 creates a new segement of the project - The Mobile Capsule at the Piet Zwart Institute.

"Live in your world. Play in ours" - Playstation 2

The invitation issues mobility in relation to contemporary artistic production. International Festival addressed mobility as a mode of production where notions of control, striation and activation produce possibilities of individualtion. With some nice assistance from commercials and a tops video projector somekind of entertainment came out.

To be playful, we are in the midst of a shift from the Age of the Robber-Barons to the Age of the Geeks and are seeing the first signs of the age to follow, the Age of the Gurus. Robber-barons love dominance hierarchies and excel in manipulating scarce atoms to their personal advantage. Their economic principles derive from scarcity, supply and demand, and organizational size. They are the capitalists of the material world.
Geeks love heterarchy and independence. They excel in intelligence and allowing data to flow into ever-wider orbits of connection, communication, and analysis. Their world is ruled by increasing returns, opportunity, and creativity. They are the capitalists of ideas.
Gurus (the healthy ones) love holoarchy and excel in triggering mobility in students or clients, which ripples outwards in ever-expanding waves. Their world is ruled by abundance, compassion, and spirituality. They will be the capitalists of the soul.

Though we are wise to enforce safeguards in the emerging mobility economy against the abuse of spiritual power or spiritual piracy, I believe that bringing the theosphere more fully into the economy will produce the most radical revolution this planet has ever seen - a democratization of the best tools of mobility from every wisdom tradition. As such, it is not to be feared but encouraged. Those who build the scaffolding to support a mature mobility economy will become very wealthy, but will be called upon to exemplify enlightened stewardship in the management of that wealth. And the combination of these two things will constitute a true revolution.