Art & Creativity Archives – Integral Life

Healing the Infosphere: How Integral Journalism Can Elevate Public Discourse

Stefan Schultz — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:53:27 +0000

Corey deVos talks to Stefan Schultz, a journalist at Der Spiegel magazine, about his model for integral journalism that he has been developing over the past few years. This model, staggering in both its depth and its breadth, examines journalism and media literacy through a developmental lens, looking at how the infosphere shapes society and how journalism can positively influence this process.

This post was originally published on Integral Life.

Integral Cinema Studio

Mark Allan Kaplan — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:40:00 +0000

In this remarkable exploration, Mark walks us through all of the main elements of Integral theory—using some of our favorite movies to illustrate the basics of the Integral approach, while noting how each of these elements has shaped the cinema experience since the invention of film itself. Not only does this series offer a wealth of perspective and insight to film, filmmakers, and audiences alike, but it also brings more color, more sound, and more awesome explosions to Integral thought and practice.

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Toward an Integral Cinema: The Application of Integral Theory to Cinematic Media Theory and Practice

Mark Allan Kaplan — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 22:09:05 +0000

Defining characteristics of what may constitute an integral cinematic work are mapped out and developed into a set of evaluation criteria using the works of Dulac, Gebser, and Wilber. A test of these evaluation criteria with the viewing of several motion pictures is summarized; the results suggest that several past and recent films demonstrate qualities that could be said to constitute an integral cinematic work.

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No Beginnings, No Endings: A Dialogue with Living Jazz Great Wayne Shorter

Greg Thomas — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 05:01:34 +0000

Wayne Shorter, likely the greatest jazz composer since Thelonious Monk, was also one of the most influential tenor and soprano saxophonists in the post-John Coltrane period from the mid-1960s onward. His death on March 2, 2023, at the age of 89, marks the end of a musical life that spanned a panoply of styles and configurations, from hard bop to electronic fusion and funk to Brazilian and Caribbean to orchestral and the avant-garde, all suffused his own idiosyncratic melding of sounds and sensibilities which seemed to reach from the heat-center of the earth to the infinite expanses of the cosmos.

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Songs of Peace, Grace, and Awakening

Barbara Hunt — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:16:42 +0000

Barbara Hunt talks to host Stephen Banks about her personal musical journey, the different effects of major and minor chords in music, the One Taste of pain and suffering as it is expressed in our creative expression, and more.

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Putting the “Art” in Artificial Intelligence

Ken Wilber — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 02:02:52 +0000

What is art, at its most fundamental level? This is one of those perennial questions that we have been asking and re-asking at every stage of the human journey, from the first cave drawings all the way to the emergence of sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms like MidJourney that are once again blurring the lines between art, beauty, and perspective and forcing us to find new ways to answer this timeless question. Watch as Ken and Corey take a fun and fascinating look at the intersection between art, semiotics, and technology.

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Stuck in Development: Bringing Depth to the Postmodern Media Age

Jason Lange — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:53:35 +0000

Filmmaker, life coach, and long-time Integral friend Jason Lange sits down with Corey deVos to talk about his new television series, Stuck in Development, now available on all major streaming platforms.

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Spiraling towards Perihelion

Markus Pintzinger — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:06:00 +0000

A stunning collection of hand-drawn imagery by Markus Pintzinger, detailing the evolutionary journey through the major stages of development (as depicted by Spiral Dynamics).

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VisionLogix: Bringing Integral Iconography to Life

Corey deVos — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 22:19:44 +0000

Corey deVos talks to Steve Banks about his integral approach to woodworking, and how he tries to transform beautiful ideas into beautiful art. Corey and Steve go on to have a robust discussion of integral art as a whole, as well as their shared appreciation for music.

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Blue Pearl: A One World Oratorio

Stephen Banks — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 21:17:57 +0000

The world premiere of Blue Pearl: A One World Oratorio, composed by Steve Banks and performed on 14th May 2022, at St Giles’ Cripplegate, London.

Blue Pearl is an ground-breaking new oratorio for choir, four solo singers and orchestra. It is inspired by the writing of American mystical philosopher, Ken Wilber, and his Integral vision.

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