Pip Greasley in residence at C&CRS 2002
An extract from Pip's description of his residency during the Summer of 2002 (taken from: Candy, L. and Edmonds, E., The COSTART Exhibition at C&C2002. in Creativity & Cognition 2002. Loughborough, UK, 2002. LUSAD Publications, p11-22.)
Cultural mismatch has almost become a sunrise industry in the western world. The global village, which was once to be a panacea for a more liberated, enlightened and enriched exchange between peoples, has been stymied by a straight jacket that superimposes a form of homogenous communication protocol on all cultures. Our technological blueprint should be looking to foster inclusivity and not alienation. It is no wonder that beneath our sanitised sheen the world is disintegrating into a fractionalised state. The Utopian ideal where we celebrated diversity and attempted to understand our cultural differences seems a universe away. Or is it? Can science back engineer us out of this fix? Or can art take a fresh look and invent some kind of radical new medium that is about us, the people?
Cultural mismatch has almost become a sunrise industry in the western world. The global village, which was once to be a panacea for a more liberated, enlightened and enriched exchange between peoples, has been stymied by a straight jacket that superimposes a form of homogenous communication protocol on all cultures. Our technological blueprint should be looking to foster inclusivity and not alienation. It is no wonder that beneath our sanitised sheen the world is disintegrating into a fractionalised state. The Utopian ideal where we celebrated diversity and attempted to understand our cultural differences seems a universe away. Or is it? Can science back engineer us out of this fix? Or can art take a fresh look and invent some kind of radical new medium that is about us, the people?
