Michael Garfield

Michael Garfield on Reality Sandwich

The "collage-umentary" film Internet Rising attempts to answer the question, "What is the internet?," from the perspective of technogurus (Kevin Kelly), e-celebrities (ze frank), media scholars (Douglas Rushkoff) and Second Life activists (Serenity96).[Video]

Art As Money: The "2012" Banknote
Michael Garfield

Amsterdam-based artist Dadara is celebrating this year of radical change with the latest project from his boundary-smashing Exchangibition Bank: a "2012" note that further blurs the distinction between fine art and finance, banking and theatric ritual.

And Now, Faster-Than-Light Culture
Michael Garfield

Last month's discovery at CERN of neutrinos traveling faster than light has physics forums buzzing about the possibility that this is “solid” evidence of long-hypothesized additional dimensions. And we seem to be on the verge of confronting this new reality, this encounter with the transcendent unknown, on a mass cultural level.

Benefit for Sasha
Michael Garfield

An international network of visionary musicians aim to pay ongoing medical costs for the legendary author of PIKHAL and TIKHAL with the double-disc opus L.A.B. Tracks: A Benefit Album for Sasha Shulgin.

Michael Garfield's Group Discussions

Bio: I'm on a mission to revive the broken lineage of world-embracing, avant-garde scientist-artists. A graduate of JFKU's Integral Theory program and alumnus of the editorial team for Ken Wilber's website, I have a degree in evolutionary biology and work as a live artist, scientific illustrator, essayist, and performing songwriter. To me, science and art enrich each other, and the job of both is to remind people of the vastness and mystery of our world – an experience that draws us out of fear and into wonder.

I am intensely fascinated with the maps we make of reality - how we explore vast interior terrain of the mind and manifest it through personal and communal expression. Bringing a biologist's sensibilities into the creative process, my songs and images are both contemplative cartographies - landmarks and legends of mystical experience - and field guides to the strange and beautiful life we encounter along the way.

My passion lies in finding the same processes playing themselves out above and below, finding the patterns that connect, exploring a state of mind and then taking people there. I love the liminal zone between experience and description, determinism and free will. And I take great pleasure in resolving a paradox by the adding dimensions/perspectives.