Alpha-bet:
Uncertainty Principles in the Atoms of Language
Saturday,
February 5
House of the Redeemer
7 E 95th St
New York, NY
Three thousand years ago, a revolution began
that continues to shape us today. By breaking language into
phonemes, into the atoms of speech, the alphabet became a
system of codifying meaning so useful in its precision, flexibility,
and simple elegance that it swept and enthralled the peoples
to whom it was exposed. It made literacy widely available,
democratizing information, but it also inclined the cultures
in which it thrived to a dependency on language as the mediator
of truth and experience.
By giving supremacy to written language over spoken word,
this revolution privileged thought process over sensation,
cementing the emerging hierarchy of mind over body and spirit,
and profoundly shaping the value systems of the societies
which benefited so greatly from it.
In this symposium we will look at the ways in which the digital
system of the alphabet has shaped our experiences and our
cultures. We will invite artists of motion, of sight and sound,
to help us explore the multi-valent aspects of this great
abstract movement. And
while we are reminding ourselves of the haunting magic of
these atoms of meaning, these and other questions may arise-
Registration
information:
Members/Fellows
$55
Non-Members $60; Students $15
Fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and reception.
($5.00 extra at the door.)
To
register
please contact Charles Henderson
chashenderson@mindspring.com or
Tel: 212-870-2544
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Fall
2004
Languages that Shape the Soul
Spring
2004
The Moving Image
Winter
2004
Religion and the Visual Arts
Fall
2003
Theology and Music
Spring
2003
Theology and Poetry:
Languages that Shape the Soul
Winter
2003
Tracing the Garden
Fall
2002
Drawing on the Human
Spirit
Spring
2002
MoMA's PAPA:
Alfred Barr and
the Religious Dimension of Modernism
Winter
2002
A Theology of Beauty
Fall
2001
Lifting the Veil
May
2001
Utopia/Dystopia
February
2001
Antigone
Performance and Symposium
November
2000
Illuminations & Transformations:
Cross-Cultural Spiritual Dynamics
in Music, Text, Dance and Film
May
2000
Alternative Readings:
Sacred Text Embodied in Visual Art
February
2000
The Meaning of Myth
November
1999
Myth, Ritual and the Mediation
of Violence
May,
1999
Writers' Ways with Loving and Dying
February,
1999
The Divine Image
Implications for a changing image of God.
October,
1998
Uneasy Constellations of
Meaning
Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth Century
Europe &
The Religious Art of Andy Warhol
May,
1998 Meeting
AYNI: The Andean Concept of Reciprocity
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