ORG is a new type of studio-gallery situation (on line and on site) where visitors are expected to leave their considered responses (in text and image form) to at least one of 64 Multimedia eScape artworks or one of the 64 Montage eScape artworks that at are always present and not for sale. All visitor responses are kept with ArtBankORG so that they can be shared with other future visitors—turning the archival material into a resource center where ideas can be exchanged, studied, updated. A guide sheet assists anyone coming into the gallery to become personally involved and to leave their (re)marks and their original response images as part of an ongoing dialogue with other artists, non-artists, children and every other sort of visitor. The limited number of 128 artworks is kept constant so that the dialogue between different individual visitors is always anchored in the same source images—images that were orchestrated with the intention that they may, on the one hand, be approached simply and directly and/or, on the other hand, as the carriers of interesting issues that call for extended rumination and thought. Further, the two sets of 64 artworks (created between 1960 and 2003) are contrapuntally interwoven with the 64 age-old I Ching sites of wisdom—a rich source and world-view of the many main optional ways of being.

Accordingly, the special image/text responses left by visitors, as well as the traditional texts from the I Ching and other texts from the author’s/artist’s writings are all available to deepen the gallery experience—but only after each viewer has had a chance to experience a specific work alone, quietly, and fully, and have made their own response, are they invited to these other sources and wrestle with the larger questions of context. Over time, the repertoire of responses, unique for each work and for each responder, should offer participants an opportunity to contribute to building a gallery of repertoire of shared discoveries and new insights into the dilemmas that surround the individual artworks and the Response Process, both locally and internationally.

Individuals are assisted in the process of deciding which work to spend time with. This could involve the I Ching casting process or an alternative method. A guide outline is provided to assist viewers to become fully engaged in the inner imaging response process, and then to engage in an outer imaging process. Supporting contextual literature, including information about the I Ching site, about the artwork, and responses of previous visitors, is available to add more layers to a response.

The theoretical basis for an iiae (interactive interdisciplinary art event/art education) Response Process is available in the four books by the author/artist/teacher.

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Aims

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To open a center where individuals and groups are assisted in the process of actively engaging in an extended interactive response practice with individual artworks

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To make the Analogos I Ching Series of original artworks available to the public as the core of an art center where communal presentations, workshops and other forms of interchange can take place

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To collect archival responses to each of the 64 invariable types of image sources in order to facilitate an accumulative, interactive dialogue among participants and consequently among researchers

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To provide a center where workshops on the iiae Response Process and related issues can be held—or arranged for in the community—for educational, and/or other types of social functions

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To provide a center where workshops, presentations and theoretical sources on the Response Process can be held for those interested in facilitating others (of any age) in engaging in inner-image/outer-image dialogue

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To provide a venue where literature from the ORG project can be made available to the public domain

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To provide print-based and online versions for those who do not have access to the originals in the gallery

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To provide a cultural center for the interchange of ideas on art between community members and beyond

Want to share your response results with others? Submit them to the ArtBankORG.

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