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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Mathesis and Generation
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:17:30 -0500 (EST)
Mathesis and Generation http://www.alansondheim.org/geomatrix.mp4 Sandy Baldwin and I are performing for the upcoming Odyssey Performance Festival on December 21 at 3 SLT, 6 New York Time. I've been thinking yet again over what I consider my wounded psyche, not in terms of healing, but just getting by on a daily basis. Buddhism hasn't helped, but I'm fascinated by deity generation/completion in Tibetan Tantra. At the same time I read cosmology and believe that mathematical ontology and its dynamics (in the sense of mathesis) constitute the basis for our world, our multiverse: every domain is entangled. An example of mechanism in this regard is the Tibetan prayer wheel or cylinder; the age of spiritual machines has been with us forever. For the performance I took the dissected cube (3-space measure polytope), dissected it into its 3, 2, 1, and 0 components (also measure polytopes), separated them, copied them, rotated them at high speed, in summary creating a spiky and high-speed dangerous ground for movement and negotiation. I've never had the ability to meditate and this installation troubles meditation or stasis, but so do virtual particles. Come to the performance where action might occur.