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World Future Society Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014
Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow
Download slides: http://www.jaygary.com/terranova14.pdf #WFS14 @drjaygary
World Future Society, Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014
Religious Futures: 34 year retrospect
1980 First Global Conference on the Future, WFS, Toronto 1980 1981 Religious Futurists’ Network (JSAC- NCC) 1987 The Future of Muslim Civilization, by Zia Sardar 1988 World Network of Religious Futurists 1992 The Temples of Tomorrow by Kirby & Brewer 1999 ChristianFutures.com, by Jay Gary & Todd Johnson 2002 Integral Futures, Richard Slaughter, Ken Wilber 2003 Futurizing the Jews, by Moshe Dror & Tsvi Bisk 2006 Regent University, MA & Strategic Foresight, DSL 2008 IFTF, Faith in the Future, Bob Johansen
To advance the knowledge & practice of • Futures Studies in Religion • Religious Studies in Futures
wnrf.org Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror (1934-2011)
Rev. Dr. Richard Kirby (1949-2009)
Explore the Future of Religion
WNRF.org
@WNRFuturists
Terra Nova 2:00-3:15 pm Whether it is Teihard de Chardin's 'omega point,' Barbara Marx Hubbard's 'conscious evolution,' Ken Wilber's 'integral theory,' Ziauddin Sardar's 'Islamic science' or Pope Francis' exhortation to simplicity, the religious imagination continues to reframe our quest toward transformation. This panel will share how the spiritual quest for "terra nova" is expressed in their own futures work through…
* Mashups in Motown with rap and social entrepreneurs * Immersive storytelling in Hollywood that merges media platforms * Creation of new paradigms for a post-terrestrial world.
It is the Year 2149
IT IS THE YEAR 2149. Overpopulation and pollution have overtaken our world. In search of a better tomorrow, scientists stumble upon a temporal rift, allowing for waves of human pilgrimages back in time to reshape the world anew, 85 million years ago on Earth.
Terra Nova FOX TV
Terra Nova means New Land • The dream to recreate our world
and reframe our quest toward tomorrow, however, has been alive for millennia across our globe.
• We are only now beginning to uncover its spiritual roots in the human past.
Gobekli Tepe
Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s oldest Temple, 10,000 B.C.
It predated the Agriculture Age, the Wheel, and Domestication of animals
Gobekli Tepe
Was Gobekli Tepe our 1st Futures Observatory?
• Created by nomadic Hunter-Gatherers, and continued for 25 generations.
• We may never know all what happened, but we can say at Gobekli Tepe our ancestors so stretched their horizons so to transform all their tomorrows.
• They went onto create the Neolithic Revolution to bring about permanent human settlements across the Fertile Crescent.
Horizons of the Future • Immediate future (1 yr.) • Near-term future (1 - 5 yrs.) • Middle-range future (5 - 20 yrs.) • Long-range future (20 - 100 yrs.) • Distant future (100 - 1,000 yrs.) • Far-distant future (3 trillion yrs. out)
Toward the Year 3000
As we engage the 21st century…
• is the religious imagination for Terra Nova still strong enough to inspire us to create new worlds?
• Or has religion itself become so codified in declining empires and economies that it has lost its creative quest for Terra Nova and beyond?
Panel
Alex McManus
Lane Jennings Mang. Editor,
WFR
Ed Lantz
Kate McCallum
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Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow !!!
Ed Lantz Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.
IMERSA, Inc. ed@vorteximmersion.com www.vorteximmersion.com
www.imersa.org
Kate McCallum c3: Center for Conscious Creativity
kate@consciouscreativity.com www.consciouscreativity.org
“Creating a Better Future Through Arts & Media”
The c3: Center for Conscious Creativity, founded in 2004, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and education arts organization whose mission is to
support and catalyze the transformational power of arts, media and entertainment at a personal, social and global level.
The c3 fosters an ecosystem of positive change by bringing scientists, futurists and thought leaders
together with artists, storytellers, content creators and advanced media technologists in workshops, classes,
screening salons, think thanks, and an annual symposium. Resulting art and media projects benefit from c3's online community resources, grants, fiscal
sponsorship and partnerships such as The Millennium Project, a Global Futurist Think Tank. Projects are then showcased and disseminated by c3 and other arts and
media partners to influence lasting change on a personal, social and global scale.
c3 maintains offices and access to The Vortex Dome, a 50 foot immersive fulldome theater
at Los Angeles Center Studios
Kate McCallum c3 Founder &
Executive DirectorProducer, Writer
Transmedia Consultant @katemccallumc3
www.consciouscreativity.org www.bridgeartsmedia.com
Kate McCallum brings unique and diverse professional experience to her work as a media futures consultant, transmedia producer, writer, events producer and entertainment and arts professional. She spent 10 years at Universal Studios in television and feature production apprenticing with some of the top content creators in the business working in development and production on such primetime series as; EQUALIZER, MIAMI VICE, LAW & ORDER and sitcoms such as CHARLES IN CHARGE and GIMME A BREAK. Kate optioned a life rights story which became a TV MOW for NBC on which she served as producer called WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU?
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TV Feature Films
Movies for TV
Music
Books
Visual Music
Music Videos
Magazines
Social Media TV360 Fulldome
Web Content
Opera
EventsImmersive
Cable
Future
Philosophical Research Society
In 2004 c3 partnered with the SCWC to program and produce “New Story Paradigm and the Future of Content” as an LA
offering. We designed panels and brought in speakers who
addressed new trends in storytelling and also those
involved in using media and arts for personal and social
transformation.
Since 2006 the c3 has offered an online social networking platform, The c3: Creative Collective, free to artists, content creators, futurists and those interested in the mission of c3.
Currently over 1000 members worldwide.
Besant Lodge in Hollywood Through the generous support of Dr. Stephen
Hoeller, the c3 launched and produced a series of events
such as; concerts, talks, screenings, etc. called the “Second Saturday Salons”
in the Besant Lodge, Hollywood
July 2007 to December 2008
www.millennium-project.org
November 2009 Partnered with The Millennium Project to create a Global Arts & Media Node
June 2010 Los Angeles Center Studios
State of the Arts 2010 Launches with LA Opera
& RingFest LA
Kenji Williams presents “Bella Gaia” in the Vortex Dome
LeVar Burton & Artists Speak about the importance of art
Key SponsorHow can arts and media make a better world?
2010 Established the c3: LABS
c3: VisionLAB 2011 Chapter 13 the Future of...
State of the Arts 2011:
Tim Kring
FutureVision 2011 Award to Tim Kring
Fulldome Showcase:
Entertainment by League of Steam
Ken Kragen of We Are the World
Jerome Glenn, Executive Director of the Millennium Project with Producers Panel
Producing Change with the PGA: Producers Guild of America New Media Council
Panel Discussion and Think Tank
2011 Think Tank
Project
In 2012 c3 received acknowledgement of its official 501(c)3 status and its first major grant of $50,000 from the Charles
Evans Foundation to fund the creation of an original 360 immersive ballet themed around women’s rights which
premiered in The Vortex Dome during the STATE OF THE ARTS 2013 Symposium
c3: CreateLAB 2012
Choreographer, Stefan Wenta & Digital Artist, Audri Phillips
BLUE APPLE 360 Immersive Ballet
State of the Arts 2012
Fulldome Showcase:
Blue Apple Immersive Ballet
LA Metro and the Future of Los Angeles
FutureVision Award 2012 Mythic Challenges
EMA
AMPLIFY! with the Electronic Music Alliance
c3: MindLAB
State of the Arts 2013 The Future of Fulldome
with IMERSA: Immersive Media Education Research
Sciences and Art
FutureVision Award 2013 FUTURESTATES.tv
Fulldome Showcase
Presentations & Panel
TWO VISIONS ONE VOICE
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c3: CreateLAB AIR: Artist In
Residence Launches 2010
Incorporated images from
Clark Planetarium in live performance
Aaron Alexrod’s MELTING RAINBOWS
360 Fulldome Film
360 Live Performance
Amrita Sen & Anthony Marinelli
Premieres at SOA 2012
Pasion
CEREMONY 360 Visual Music Concert
c3: Center for Conscious Creativity Project Partner Program Launched 2013
c3 provides fiscal sponsorship and project support through the Project Partner program. Individuals apply for consideration then join the program up review and acceptance of c3
Board and Staff. c3 currently supports four projects to date and seeks to continue offering and growing out services to artists and relevant projects.
The House is Black A multimedia project inspired by the life and works of Iranian icon, poet and filmmaker, Forough Farrokhzad, presented at CAP UCLA created by Sussan Deyhim.
Nike DomeSuper Bowl 2012
Super Bowl 2013
Primary Sponsor
My Story
Artist /Writer/Inventor Hollywood, Florida
Masters in Engineering w/Quantum Physics Tennessee
Tech University
Aerospace Engineer Melbourne, Florida
Planetarium Engineer Cocoa, Florida
My Story
Immersive Theater Engineer Chadds Ford, PA
Cable Television Pioneer!Philadelphia, PA
Immersive Media Producer & Entrepreneur
Los Angeles, CA
My Story
Interfaith Minister Celebratory Drummer, Ritualist, Producer
Writer, Speaker Socially Beneficial Organizations, Networking and Events
Large-scale, real-time interactive group immersive environments
Immersive Cinema Digital Dome or “Fulldome” Theater
Digital Dome Growth Markets 1000+ Digital Dome Screens Worldwide
Digital Planetariums
Giant Screen Digital Cinema
Themed EntertainmentEvents Domes
Portable Planetariums
Shared Immersive Experience
Vortex Dome Los Angeles Center Studios
!Next-generation immersive cinema events venue and development studio !
Venue Specifications: Diameter External: 50’ Internal w/video screen): 45’ 9”Floor Area: 1,963 sq. ft.Standing Capacity: 280Theater Seating Capacity: 120
Digital Domes Worldwide
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Morrison PlanetariumCalifornia Academy of Arts and SciencesSan Francisco, CA
Hayden PlanetariumRose Center for Earth and Space
American Museum of Natural HistoryNew York, NY
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Alexandria, Egypt
Papalote Museo del Niňo Mexico City
Sampling of Digital DomesShanghai
Science Center Shanghai, China
Sheikh Zayed #Grand Mosque#Abu Dhabi, UAE
Temple Mount#Haram al-Sharif #Jerusalem
Temples, Mosques and Cathedrals
Cathedral of Notre Dame Paris, France
Modern Cathedrals of Science and the Imagination ● Powerful Surround Visuals and Sound ● Experiential Storytelling Journeys ● SciVis combined with Art, Music ● Promotes Scientific and World View ● Secular and Multicultural ● Millions of Visitors Annually
Modern Digital Planetarium
Fulldome Planetariums allow Navigation through a Scientifically Accurate Model of the Known Universe
Images Courtesy SCISS AB www.scalingtheuniverse.com
Carter Emmart, Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Earth and Space
Digital Planetariums
Immersive EducationOver 1200
digital domes in the world
c3: CreateLAB in The Vortex Dome
Las Vegas - Downtown Project
An experience that substantially alters a person’s “possibility space” or life path ● Discovering new facts, cultures, connections ● Epiphany, realization, revelation ● Spiritual, numinous, or “unity” experience ● Awakening to empathy, compassion, love ● Often triggered by new friends, social circles ● Trauma, loss, fear, etc. can also be transformative
transformed world view = transformed world
Transformative Media
● Art can be seen as the evocation or transmission of unique neural states
● The performing artist’s instrument is the audience’s nervous systems
● The conscious artist must therefore be mindful of the audience’s experience
● The artist cannot easily evoke a state of consciousness that they themselves cannot maintain
● Therefore the artist’s prime directive is to: a. Attain unique/useful/entertaining moods or states of consciousness b. Consciously evoke these neural states in their audience through
their craft
Conscious Creativity
Mindfulness Exercise In the Vortex Dome 2012
Seven Pillars Journey of Wisdom
Seven Pillars Journey of Wisdom
James Hood’s CEREMONY
Digital Spa
Vidarium by LivinGlobe
The Digital Spa’s Purpose is Simple:
Deliver Experiences that Make People Feel Better
and Promote Wellness !
How? !
Provide powerful immersive experiences that are: ● Soothing, relaxing, inspiring, healing ● Meditative, contemplative, beautiful ● Energizing, invigorating, awe-inspiring ● Transformative, uplifting
Digital Spa
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Thank You! !!
Ed Lantz Vortex Immersion Media, Inc.
IMERSA, Inc. ed@vorteximmersion.com www.vorteximmersion.com
www.imersa.org
Kate McCallum c3: Center for Conscious Creativity
kate@consciouscreativity.com www.consciouscreativity.org
Terra Nova as a spirituality
Terra Nova as a spirituality of the future can be defined as the concern of all who
feel drawn toward the fullness of humanity and, in tum, allow their lives to be
transformed by their relationship with the Absolute, however that may be defined.
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World Future Society Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014
Terra Nova: The Religious Quest for Tomorrow
Download slides: http://www.jaygary.com/terranova14.pdf
World Future Society, Orlando, FL, July 13, 2014
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