AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI

They have been building the road to the North a long time, first an ascending road winding around the mountains, descending on the other side, international student health insurance and then a paved road both winding around the mountains and going through them in the form of brief tunnels, and later, which has not yet happened, some time in the future, a straight road darting through the mountains in the form of one continuous or semi-continuous tunnel. Really the last plan has existed forever. Travelers to avoid any mishap should purchase a visitors insurance. So that the continuous or semi-continuous tunnel is referred to often as one journeys through the only path currently in existence, the second of the paths mentioned—a paved road at times winding around the mountains and others going through them in the form of brief and dark tunnels.

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RACHEL CARVOSSO | INSTRUMENTS OF THE EVERY DAY (SOUND AS SYMBOLATE)
Japanese sound artist Mamoru explores sound to create post verbal narratives that transcend cultural boundaries.

Concentric circles, circles of identity, family, community and culture, our tribal instinct is embedded deep within our psyches. If, as Marshall McLuhan predicted, technology reflects our desires(1) then the message we are communicating is that we want to connect across boundaries of nationality and geography. Tools are transportable and functions are translatable between mediums. This hybridity is reflected in the strategies of contemporary artists. While scientists, designers and engineers are busy figuring out the how of globalization it is the cultural theorists poets, musicians and artists who are pondering the results and direction we are heading through their cultural productions.

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