Re: THE FARST CYBERE GARDNER

MEO (meo@ego.psych.mcgill.ca)
Tue, 1 Aug 1995 07:57:17 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Sean E Varney wrote:

> Tacking Escher as a starting piont for defining a VR world
> is wrong here are two resons why.
>
> (1) Its odd to have any Statick 2D image as a starting pont for creating
> some form of CRITEC of a 4DVR world.
>

Any inspiration is okay for me. Let it be an Elvis stamp or a Cathedral,
a menuet or a graffiti. What is a good starting point is an inspiring one.

> (2) The HIGH ART wating of interlchal debat surounding pinting
> as a clasical art form would bog dowen any NEW defanishon
> of Cencerey exsperounces. e.g. the total exseptencer of the gallary
> and museum platformes for SHOWING art works. this can be seen
> by the prolifarashon of Virtual Gallerys on the INTERNET.

I'm not out there to conquer a share of art market. I'm expressing
myself. Call it r&d of the soul. Let it be of no value to one. It's still
has it's reason to be. There is no "one path".

> There are better art formers which incoparate TIME and EVALOSHON in-to
> the art work.
>
[snip]
>
> But there is are more anuther ART form which
> could have more to do with VR than most and that is
> GARDNING aspeshaly Landscape Gardning

Great image. Great direction. Can't wait to see it grow.
AI meets vr meets zen.

If it inspirers you... let it. I'll try that in a moo soon. A plant. Just
a growing plant. That needs water, sun and that you talk to it once in a
while. Keep you posted.

Martin

NB: English is hard for me, so please ignore typoes =c)