[tt] [SALT] 10,000-year art WEDNESDAY July 23 (for forwarding)

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Stewart Brand <sb at gbn.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:16:11 -0700
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Subject: [SALT] 10,000-year art WEDNESDAY July 23 (for forwarding)
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   Long Now is a scheme magnet, apparently...

   Ed Burtynsky's massively informative photographs change minds and
   influence policy. They are also exquisite art, and their historical
   value will grow with time.  Other art has similar reach.  There should
   be a gallery that collects, displays, and sifts such works over
   centuries and millennia, and develops ways to preserve them.  That is
   exactly Burtynsky's plan--- a 10,000-year Gallery to accompany Long
   Now's 10,000-year Clock.  His presentation will explore and
   demonstrate the idea.

     "The 10,000-year Gallery," Edward Burtynsky, Cowell Theater, Fort
     Mason, San Francisco, 7pm, WEDNESDAY, July 23.  The talk starts
     promptly at 7:30pm.  Admission is free (a $10 donation is always
     welcome, not required).

   Burtynsky's photographs are in the permanent collections of fifteen
   major museums around the world.  We will see some of them Wednesday.

   Talks coming up:

   Aug. 8 (Friday) - Daniel Suarez ("Leinad Zeraus"), "Daemon:
   Bot-mediated Reality"

   Sep. 12 (Friday) - Peter Diamandis, "Long-term X-Prizes"

   Oct. 3 (Friday) - Huey Johnson, "Green Planning at Nation Scale"

   Nov. 17 (MONDAY) - Drew Endy vs. Jim Thomas, "Synthetic Biology
   Debate"

   Dec. 19 (Friday) - Rick Prelinger, "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco"

   Jan. 16 (Friday) - Saul Griffith, "Climate Change Recalculated"

   High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits are available to
   Long Now members.  Membership, which costs $8/month ($96/year), helps
   support the series and other Long Now projects.  Joinable [1]here.

   A new, permanent form of Membership has been inaugurated: The
   10,000-year Member.  It costs, of course, ten thousand dollars.  Along
   with other special perks, the first seven 10K Members (five already
   taken) get a signed painting by Brian Eno.  Details [2]here.

   This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking
   (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation.  Free audios and my
   summaries of all previous talks are available for download [3]here (or
   stay up to date with the Podcast [4]here).  You'll find a range of
   long-term thinking items on our [5]Blog ([6]RSS).  If you would like
   to be notified by email of forthcoming talks, go [7]here to sign up
   online.  Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now---
   415-561-6582 x1, [8]danielle at longnow.org.

   You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be
   interested.

                                           --Stewart Brand

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   Stewart Brand -- sb at gbn.org

   The Long Now Foundation - http://www.longnow.org
   Seminars & downloads: http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/

References

   1. https://secure.longnow.org/members/
   2. http://www.longnow.org/membership/10k/
   3. http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
   4. http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/podcast.php
   5. http://blog.longnow.org/
   6. http://feeds.feedburner.com/longnowblog
   7. http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/SALT
   8. mailto:danielle at longnow.org

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