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| Name | | Genesis of tomorrow |
| Price, USD | | Contact Seller / Artist |
| Status | | Not for sale |
| Size, cm
| | 64.0 x 64.0 cm /switch |
| Artist | | Dirk Jakobs |
| Year made | | 2007-10-10 |
| Edition | | Original |
| Style | |
Abstract |
| Theme | |
Fantasy |
| Spirituality |
| Media | |
Painting |
| Glass |
| Description | |
"Genesis of Tomorrow" is a symbol, an abstract allegory of the origin of ideas, floating, growing, able to transform the circumstances. Germ cells of mind, spirit and culture reaching for the universe. The power of thoughts, ideas and visions: This is the breeding ground for life of future generations.
Genesis of Tomorrow will give birth to new ideas, an optimistic new evolution and a new form of civilisation. It will develop further and further, but different to biological evolution. Three billions years of evolution, from the single cell to complex intellectual competence, have permanently changed the world. Now the definition of evolution is about to change itself. According to Freeman J. Dyson, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, the Darwinian era is over.
The epoch of species competition came to an end about 10 thousand years ago when a single species, Homo sapiens, began to dominate and reorganize the biosphere. Since that time, cultural evolution has replaced biological evolution as the driving force of change. Cultural evolution is not Darwinian. Cultures spread by horizontal transfer of ideas more than by genetic inheritance. Cultural evolution is running a thousand times faster than Darwinian evolution, taking us into a new era of cultural interdependence that we call globalization.
Life has become a swirl; the process of cultural evolution is accelerating and is leading to new forms of civilisation. Social concerns are closely related to the emerging biotechnology and the control of natural resources. Every civilisation is dependent on the amount of usable energy it has at its disposal: The power of ideas, combined with resources will determine our future.
My book The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet (1999) describes a vision of green technology enriching villages all over the world and halting the migration from villages to megacities. The three components of the vision are all essential: the sun to provide energy where it is needed, the genome to provide plants that can convert sunlight into chemical fuels cheaply and efficiently, the Internet to end the intellectual and economic isolation of rural populations. With all three components in place, every village in Africa could enjoy its fair share of the blessings of civilization. (Freeman J. Dyson)
But at what point is our civilisation now? With the Kardashev scale the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev first proposed a general method of classifying how technologically advanced a civilisation is in 1964. In general terms, a Type I civilization has achieved mastery of the resources of its home planet, Type II of its solar system, and Type III of its galaxy. We are still at the beginning, the globalization only has begun. We have not reached a state of global peace yet. This would be necessary. Only a united civilisation would be able to go a step further. The oppurtunities are challenging. And the awareness, that there is an interdependency between the people, is increasing. The diverse, rapidly emerging mobile communication structures, the Internet and the global media, are spawning questionable hierarchies and new structures of belief. The Festival for Art and Digital Culture transmedial.08 that took place in january 2008 in Berlin examined these developments unter the motto CONSPIRE. Con-spire means: Breathing together. Every breath we take has an influence on others, near or far away. Negative and positive aspects are from common interest: Air pollution in Europe has direct consequences for other continents, ideas travel at formerly unknown speed. Artists from all over the world contributed their works and ideas. Conspire turned to be a pragmatic diagnosis of the state of global culture and a pool for new ideas and cooperation. But we need more. We need inspiration.
Dirk Jakobs ardently contributes to our future, his vision of an InspiNation (=Inspiring Nation) abolishes the traditional definition of nation. Everybody is invited to participate in a civilisation, where our loyalty is no longer bound to shady authorities; we only have to search our own conscience to find the power to do right. The message of Dirk Jakobs build a peaceful society!
Genesis of Tomorrow could be the new icon of this vision, the InspiNation. While looking at the painting, the dynamic movement of the swirling colours sets the viewer in motion. The radiant firework begins to rotate, the sparks are flying. Dirk Jakobs passes on his enthusiasm; he sets us on fire for the one goal: A united, inspiring society. And the sky is the limit ... |
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| Artist Dirk Jakobs |
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| Dirk Jakobs, born in 1973, qualified media designer since 1993, worked for Frese Edeldruck in Dusseldorf from 1989-1999. In 1994, he held a post with Pindar Media Service Provider ... |
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