In a nutshell, Data A art is a kind of art which presents things that we can see or perceive now, that we could have never seen or perceived before.

The entire concept of Data A art can be surmised in a kind of short-hand definition that says that "information (data) plus innovation equals a fresh new plan "A" suggesting that we as a species are at a junction where the best survival strategy may be that we transition from the old plan to a new one with better survival incentives.

Data A art is radically new because the nature of the problems we face as a species are also radically new not only to us but to the planet itself. Data A art is not the best or the ultimate plan, but it is one of the first to surface to deal with the role of art in the current cultural predicament of what to do with a civilization in decay and a world in peril.

We are at a new stage in our development and so is Data A art, meaning that there is a lot to be explored and discovered. what follows are some of the insights about this new art that have already surfaced.

Data A art is a creative direction concerned with the future in the context of life (all life).

The word “data” is used to reference information, all information, the universe as information, nature as information and human consciousness as information. In that fashion, data refers to the general idea that all known information is "data" as used and understood by the human species. As we have come to a new junction in our survival outlook due to the effect of our activity and the state of the planet due to such activity.

therefore, since a new approach to human activity has to be found because we already know that the old approach will not service then, is if fairly obvious that the new activity will have to be different from the old and therefore must have a separate designation to keep things in perspective and be able to tell the old from the new. That distinction is provided by the capital letter "A" as in Data A.

Clearly Data A is simply an aesthetic devise meant to create a separation between all that we have become as a species  and a new "plan A" if you will, moving forward towards what we can still accomplish as a species. Data A art therefore, is indicative of an art direction that is primarily concerned with the future as an ongoing journey from the now. One can even say, that Data A art embraces Nature as an extension of our conscious sphere where a true partnership between their data holds the best chance of a planet earth with us in it as co-architects with nature of all life.

Why Data A?

Because the new challenges affect all social, cultural, political, economic, religious and environmental spheres and are new and unique to the 21st century. Therefore, the arts must respond to these challenges just as it has in previous centuries with new aesthetic lenses through which life can be seen in a new light  and contribute that way to the culture of how we may react to said challenges.

There is no doubt that this century poses critical survival problems at a scale that humanity had never seen before and for which only truly new ideas will service.  Data A art therefore is one of many possible responses which dramatically enters the century with a number of truly new ideas and aesthetic relationships.

What Makes Data A art a 21st century response?

Many things do, but most prominently, the fact that it is an art direction that is or that can be fully reconciled with life in both principle and actual practice. In the 20th century there were brilliant attempts to reconcile art with life which provided the way forward for the aesthetic of Data A art.

Data A art proposes for observation an aesthetic that extends the reconciliation ideal, to include the world at large. That is, a reconciliation amongst and between the human species and the planet's biosphere. It is thought that for life on Earth moving forward, only a partnership between us and Nature at large may secure a world for future generations an a planet that future generation can sustain.

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Data A art is an attempt to unify the aesthetic notions of human nature with the dynamic process of Nature as a whole. It is art in the context of life.

Data A is an art form couched on the premise that, if human civilization has in fact reached a point in its development that renders its upkeep unsustainable, then a new strategy that embraces cultural and environmental renewal is in order.

Data A is therefore the name for a kind of art that is situated in between our present cultural strategy and the beginning of a new cultural strategy moving forward into the future. Data A, may be considered as a “transitional art” and can be loosely defined as a kind or art that embraces a vision of renewal for humanity and the world.

Data A art - What makes it new?

To make the claim for a new art in 2010 would require a number of compelling qualities capable of setting the propositions made by Data A art apart from anything in the arts hitherto. However Data A art is a new aesthetic recipe tailored for life in the 21st century.

The new cultural components introduced by Data A into art are additions that have a profound sense of conservation regarding the achievements and history of art. The additions are intended as natural extensions into art’s new evolutionary requirements in order to embrace a new causal relationship with culture and nature.

The resulting effect may be a dramatic change in our established notions of art, artist, and artistic experience. Perhaps, it may even be a dramatic change in our established notions about reality. All of which will provide an indication that the boundaries of art have been extended and that a new wave of human creativity is at hand.

Data–A art – an aesthetic recipe and some of its ingredients

Data A is art that is placed in the context of life. In other words, Data A is an art about the reconnection of human nature with nature itself in a relationship new to the planet. Art in the context of life as suggested by Data A art, enters human consciousness into an uncharted whole new representational landscape.

1. Because of its concern with the future, Data A art distinguishes itself from all other art by virtue of its aim or design to represent the past separated from the now but, visible or perceptible in the same plane, in order to provide the narrative of the work of art  with a greater opportunity to focus on what is possible or doable to secure a forward motion towards a desired outcome as proposed by the work of art itself. By way of analogy, Data A art attempts to separate the noise from the signal to maximize the clarity of the message.
2. Data A is an art whose primary objective is focused on an intended, prescribed or desired outcome. The visualization of (outcome) was the first indication of the operative consequence of art in the context of life. Life may be thought as a process whose expression is punctuated by a consecutive series of outcomes occurring along the path of time towards the future.
3. Data A art, by reason of being in the context of life (as in life on earth) and by having a prescribed outcome (or consequence), becomes an art with some of the essential characteristics of nature. Time, in particular, is a dimension that enters the art work making it possible for the work of art to function in a four-dimensional framework. In other words, the art work enters life and moves towards its outcome in the same fashion that, say, an arrow is shot into the air to move through space and time towards a particular target.
4. Data A art, created in such close alliance with life, becomes variable, meaning that the art or its narrative undergoes changes as it moves through time towards the desired outcome. Therefore, a way to measure the sufficiency of the work of art or its narrative under variable conditions was required in order to ensure the best possible outcome. That requisite was filled by a phenomenon I borrowed from nature which I introduce as a term called “Sufficiency” (S′) Sufficiency is thought of as a term that is needed to introduce a quantifiable sense of proportion between extremes as created by our interpretation of the world. At present it is an aesthetic device used to direct the potential outcome of the work of art or its narrative. However one can visualize its potential in other spheres of thought. (more on sufficiency HERE)

Clearly, the presence and use of these ingredients or distinguishing features in Data A art imply a dramatic number of ramifications and new cultural consequences occurring at many levels over the entire scope of human affairs. Fortunately their effect is also an affirmative indication of Data A art as a transitional art form.

Ultimately, the best representatives of an art form are the works of art in which these ideas are manifested in the rich experiential content of the work of art itself.

It should be indicated that Data A art, because of its proximity to life, can be manifested in a myriad of ways using known media and media as yet to be employed. It must also be added that the complexity of the Data A works can also vary greatly in scope, significance and, eventually, in importance.

One example of which I and a number of colleagues around the world are working as a collaborative effort, is becoming a flag-ship for Data A art as a new direction for arts the “Worldwide Peace Marker Project” (WPMP). This project uses the installation art format as a point of departure to create a distinctive example of Data A art at a terrestrial level.

The project embodies all of the components listed above and has become a source of great expectation as its intended “outcome” sets off a number of first ever incidents for art, for human culture and for the future of humanity. WPMP as designed, effectively allows us to filter-out the effect of the past history of peace, presenting instead the "now" of peace as a "point of peace" in the shape of an sculptural object called a Peace Marker. The Peace Marker then, becomes the starting point of a new conception of peace that is structured with a new narrative between the events that shaped its history and the possibility of a new conceptual application of peace as a physical and cultural entity.

The WPMP is presented to the world as a Global Peace Offering," its realization produces the first global work of art in the history of our species, as well as, the first time that the arts go out collectively to deliberately create a completely new cultural conception of the idea of world peace.

WPMP is tracked through time on its own website, www.wpmp.net . The project was launched on November 30, 2002, six years ahead of this statement in order to verify some of the data and obtain the evidence needed before Data A could be released as a new art direction.

Data A is also supported by over 200 documented experimental projects carried out between 1981 and 1992 and a number of countdown to Data A art projects, some of which are referenced on this website Here or are documented in official and public archival records.

It is hard to believe that, in a peculiar way, it has taken me several decades to write this statement.

I firmly believe that art is perhaps the safest environment in which we can collectively see ideas succeed or fail.

If Data A art succeeds, which I think it will, humanity may have found a way out of the cultural predicament that we are in. If it fails, nothing that is not already compromised will be lost.

Creating a new idea, as hard as it is, is not as hard as it is trying to explain it. This is particularly true in the case of “sufficiency” which is definitely my most important contribution, because if art and life are about the reality of things, our interpretation of the world needs to be as accurate as can be, since that would be our reality.

The trouble is that without a way of determining the efficiency of our reality we will preserve the chaotic cacophony of 6 billion plus realities and miss the opportunity to move forward to learn that all realities are subject to change and fluctuation from moment to moment.

That is to say that reality is variable because it changes to suit the four dimensional characteristics of spacetime events in our universe.

Sufficiency therefore, is a fiduciary between the change and fluctuation of our accepted reality, allowing us finally, to begin to experience the world as an ever changing sufficiency of life and ourselves as a part of that sufficiency.

I have prepared an illustrative work about Data A that you may enjoy Here

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Cape Coral, March 31, 2010