LIFESCIENCE: Lifescience is in evolution?

[Christian Kasperle <christiank@start.com.au>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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Greetings 
I have been quietly lurking in on the discussion and various opinions that have been uttered.
Some information disseminated has been interesting and occasionally new.
Most however has belonged to the set of utterances that seem to emminate from the old necessity of academics to climb over each other for the benefit of massaging their status and sometimes even their ego.
I am deeply concerned that this lifescience net-forum is dying in the colloquial "arse". 
I suggest that the following is considered.
1: Aesthetics and art are highly overated and it seems more pertinant to concentrate on the actual scientific data and conceptual developments that the lucid minds of science fiction and science actual are dealing with.
2: I am amused to see that many of the so called artistic opinions fall very short of any art that I know (I might add that I have been an artistic professional for many years and I do not need to go back to art school square one). If indeed the arts have a part to play, which is not a given, then they must begin to produce product and not be left in the hands of the very easy academic  - come art thought factory people. That is the realm of the science fiction artist  and they seem to be able to do a far better job of managing the data for their "creative" activities.
3: I would like to say that I am feeling certain "anger" towards many of the participants and it is a response to what I have read. This implies that although I can not pinpoint the reasons I do have a feeling for it. It appears that subliminal messsages are sent by all contributors and the single most dominant one seems to feel like "academic wanking" which in itself is a virus that seems to collect in the critical mass and then becomes the standard by which the symposium evolves. Language is also a virus!
I am contributing to the virus but I am doing so to see if I can maybe expose it and then maybe some one out there with greater skills than I can erradicate it for the benefit of the symposium et all. 
4: Should these comments offend or upset any one out there then that is as it is. But if I neglect to respond to the anger felt I would be assuming a robotic AI and I can assure you all that without a shadow of a doubt that I am a human with spirit and with a deep sense of self and universe. This would be the time to slide back on to my yacht, sail quietly into a sunset on a tropical Barrier Reef Cay and contemplate further my navel. A reality perception that I can highly recommend.
Thanx Kasper


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