Variations of Stillness and Movement – Digital Technology, Art and Spirituality

Questions of Courage

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Thousands of satellites are being launched each year as part of efforts to build out the infrastructure for our digital technologies and networks. The night sky is now crisscrossed by traveling techno-stars visible to the naked eye. The celestial order of the constellations host more and more movement, and light pollution, which has led many astronomers around the world to protest. There is also an acceleration of dynamism in normal perception through our phones and computers, images change, come and go, as do messages and sounds, with tremendous speed. There is so much more to everything. As a part of this movement many experience a static void and a great paradox of our newest “communication technologies” that they easily isolate and separate. In inner work we see a countermovement, where we start with bringing our distracted thoughts to stillness and focus with our will, and then we find a plane of spiritual movement, of warmth and light, imbued with an ethical life. In this episode these two gestures of modernity form the backdrop for an exploration of artistic projects that are being prepared for the Youth Conference at the Goetheanum for February on Digital Technology and Spirituality.

References:

Kerry Brougher and Olivia Mattis. Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since

1900. Thames & Hudson, 2005.

Omer Eilam. “Music - On Earthly and Cosmic Music,” November 24, 2023.

https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/on-earthly-and-cosmic-music/.

Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Anthroposophy as a Path of

Knowledge - The Michael Mystery. Rudolf Steiner Press, 2013.

Veit, Wolfgang, and Jan Stuten. Bewegte Bilder: der Zyklus “Metamorphosen der Furcht” von Jan Stuten : Entwurf zu einer neuen Licht-Spiel-Kunst nach einer Idee von Rudolf Steiner. Urachhaus, 1993.

Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV.
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