Exhibits and Installations
Numerous exhibits will be available during the weekend, including an Arcosanti community art exhibit in the East Crescent (first floor), meditation and banner art, digital and online works, telepresence and artificial life demonstrations. Most of this activity will be in the library,plus a few other locations around the site.

Ambient Salons
Music, meditation, art, discussion, thought. Through visuals and the DJ's way, the Paradox Seminar's Ambient Salons offer an environment conducive to commune and thoughtful discourse. Featuring Eric Kalabacos and Vordo on turntables, Crystal Soiu and Dimension 7 on projections, and Dianna Rawleigh's environmental installations.

Trance Dance
On Saturday, the Arcosanti community and Paradox participants will enjoy a cutting-edge techno trance dance featuring the work of world class DJs and techno recording artists Peter Ziegelmeier and Adam Ohana of Ceiba , plus guest DJs.

Friday, October 24

5:00	Tours of Arcosanti	Visitors Center Gallery
A special tour of Arcosanti will begin in the Gallery of the Visitors Center and culminate in the Foundry for a dramatic night bronze pour. Be sure to stop by the Visitors Center early to check out the materials and exhibits in the Cafe and the Gallery.
6:30	Night Bronze Pour	Foundry
Renowned Soleri bells carry the Arcosanti aesthetic and desert spirit to homes the world over. Paradox attendees are invited to a characteristic event at Arcosanti: one of several daily bronze pours, at 2500 degrees using sand molds.
7:00	Dinner	Cafe
Be the guest of the Cafe and Bakery at Arcosanti for a wholesome serve-yourself buffet in the Cafe. Some herbs and vegetables from the Gardens at Arcosanti are featured in Cafe and Bakery cuisine.
8:45	Pictograph Performance	Sky Theater
Tomiaki Tamura combines images of light and shadows with music and Socrates' "Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's Republic in an interpretive light and sound show.
9:00 - 12:00	Ambient Salon	Vaults
Music: Eric Kalabacos, Vordo; visuals: Dimension 7, environment: Dianna Rawleigh
10:00	Avatars 97 Link	Vaults
Michael Gosney , Mark Pesce Immediately preceding the Paradox Seminar, the Avatars 97 conference in San Francisco is a cutting-edge industry event for advanced cyberspace developments. As we begin our symposium at Arcosanti we will share virtual space via real-time avatar interaction with the Avatars 97 closing event at San Francisco's Anon Salon, using the Onlive Traveler virtual world environment.
Saturday, October 25
7:30 - 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast Buffet	Cafe
Help yourself to a light breakfast in the Cafe featuring fresh-baked goods from the Bakery at Arcosanti.
9:00 am - 12:00 noon	Arcology, Arcosanti and the Paradox Project	Music Center Amphitheater
Paolo Soleri, Michael Gosney , Ron Anastasia (moderators), Nathan Koren, Jack Sarfatti This weekend's activities are primarily designed to present the Paradox Project at Arcosanti. In Paolo Soleri's words, "Since Arcosanti is a place in search of the miniaturizedby way of complexity, and since cyberspace is a non-place in search of the complex by way of miniaturization, I am proposing an internship which will bring these two places together via the practice of building and living in a non-virtual environment frugally imprinted, a habitat dedicated to urbanization. ... The city gave us civilization because of its coherence with the evolutionary drift. The demise of the city will be the breakup of civilization and the falling away from the thrust of evolution. This devolution promises intense planetary suffering, a suffering the Noosphere must nobly resist and reject." Arcosanti's purpose is to offer society guidelines for cities which are evolutionarily coherent. Since Arcosanti is being designed as an experimental urban laboratory, the participants in the Paradox Project internship will become crucial members of the community of discourse and experiment affecting and being effected by each phase of Arcosanti's design and implementation. The first part of this session will introduce to the principles of arcology and Arcosanti as a prototype arcology. We will inquire into how the eschatological context of Arcosanti could have an important impact on the continued development of digital media and the potential it offers for human consciousness. Soleri will discuss his most recent thinking re his Omega Seed hypothesis, and quantum physicist Jack Sarfatti will outline how recent scientific theories about the nature of reality and the existence of parallel universes may corroborate and extend Soleri's vision. The Paradox Project's "neo-monastic" internship program will offer participants the chance to live, study and work at Arcosanti. A primary focus will be on the construction of the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin complex, the eventual residence and work place for participants in the Paradox Program, named after the Jesuit priest and paleontologist who first presented the idea of the "Noosphere." Study and discourse will be encouraged during the internship, along with work in cyberspace. One example of the ongoing inquiry at Paradox is how cyberspace and recent advances in the theory of virtual reality may be early simulations of the ultimate purpose and destiny of life and intelligence in the universe. These theoretical studies will be balanced by the embodied physical experience of helping to build Arcosanti. As Paolo says, "we are offering not a contemplative Buddahood, but an active less narcissistic 'cement mixer-hood.' The construction of the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin complex at Arcosanti is the ground where the paradox of virtuality generating a hyper-consumptive society is balanced by an environmental experience developed in a frugal mode only feasible in an urban context." The panel will conclude with a brief presentation of the Virtual Arcosanti Model (VAM), the first in-depth meeting of arcology and cyberspace. The purpose of VAM is to create a high-res virtual model to help envision what living in a completed arcology might actually be like. Applications will include virtual fly-throughs and walk-throughs of Arcosanti and other planned arcologies, multimedia simulations and educational programs for use in exhibits and tours, and an interactive VRML version for cyberspace explorations of arcological concepts and experiences. Also planned is quantitative simulation modeling of Arcosanti's projected energy and resource use, micro-economics, and lifestyle variables. Information about joining the VAM modeling team will be available.
12:00 pm	Lunch Buffet	Cafe
1:30 - 3:00	Minds and Hands: Of the One and the Many	Music Center Amphitheater
Michael Gosney ,John Graham , Mark Pesce, David Traub Digital tools and interactive media are empowering our individual minds and hands. As the technology and its distributed network of applications becomes more sophisticated (miniaturized and complex) we are experiencing early manifestations of a collective "global nervous system" and the potential for truly collaborative global works. Might cyberspace itself be the first of these collective evolutionary works? Is Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the noosphere - a "sphere of mind" - truly emerging from the biosphere? Is the medium of cyberspace following a morphogenetic blueprint for a new human/Gaian metamind? Some may scoff at such lofty notions, but consider the average person's response in 1797 to a world of electricity, television, space shuttles and artificial organs. Seeing the forest vs. the trees is the challenge as we anticipate this bold evolution in human consciousness and society. There are critical questions: Does the current "wired" reality we are developing lead to truly humanistic applications of digital technologies † or to further degradation of our individual rights? As the delivery of goods and services follows the digital wave, along with education and communication, are we establishing a new realm of haves and have nots? And does the quality of life for the wired elite improve as technological capacity to "augment" our being evolves -ľor are we reduced to carefully tracked, ever-indebted consumers in the global market food chain? Given the apparent evolutionary scope of digital technologies, it would seem our vision would be broadened with an expanded, cross-disciplinary dialogue. This panel will attempt to at least set the stage for such discourse.
3:30 - 5:00	Designing Cyberspace - Digital Art and Human Heart	Music Center Amphitheater
Coco Conn ,Scott Fisher ,Michael Gosney(moderator) , Michael O'Rourke, Marcos Novak Digital art and the artist's sensibilities are critical to the cyberspace design process. Digital art designates any number of computer-derived tools and processes, and a wide range of human expression. A 6-year-old's KidPix drawing, a glossy photo-montage annual report cover, a Star Trek special effect, a framed figurative painting, a CD-ROM game, an internet travelogue, an elegant object-oriented program, a new life form - all these are works of "digital art." If cyberspace does indicate the emergence of a collective metamind, then just as the human brain's (self-reflective, holonomic, fuzzy-logic) design dictates the quality of experience of an individual mind, so does the design of the digital matrix of cyberspace dictate the quality of the noosphere, and consequently the character of our 21st century psyches and societies. In this discussion, we will put aside purely technical issues and ideas, and focus on aesthetic and psychological/spiritual concerns. Interface, architecture, psycho-ergonomics, appropriate functionality, content selection/editing, commerce applications, net access. We now have a graphic user interface, hypertext linkage and search functions, and an array of fast-developing digital communications systems - email, chat, fax, telephone, cellphone, videophone, file transfer, multilingual/multimedia hyper publishing, streaming media, push media, virtual worlds, etc. As we assess these revolutionary but unavoidably primitive systems and consider new immersive interfaces, advanced hypermedia applications, knowledge-processing and many-to-many communications and transactional systems - it is critical that we apply not only higher aesthetic principles to the cyberspace design process, but also psychological, social and (dare we suggest) philosophical considerations. Guided by experience and instinct, informed by collaboration, driven by vision, human hands mold silicon clay. The new media, the new mind, crafted from the heart.
5:30 - 7:00	Homo Carbonis/Homo Siliconis - Humans and Sentient Computers	Music Center Amphitheater
Paolo Soleri, Ron Anastasia (moderator), Charles Ostman , Mark Pesce "The present juncture is perhaps unique: 1.) The mineral from which the organic has sprung is called upon by the organic to reconfigure itself into intellection. A most magic alchemy, but then, if space metamorphosis is all there is, why not? 2.) A shadow of ambiguity if not doubt, is hidden in the stupefying gap between the organic and the self-conscious. The gap is filled by the (folded over) chain of transcendence M.C.D. has solicited within living reality. 3.) Can silicon M.C.D. (miniaturization-complexity-duration) reach up and compare favorably with the M.C.D. reached by carbon? And if it can, how, when, where. What will be the new, silicon persona? At what price?" - Paolo Soleri, 1997 Beyond the enhancement of human hands and minds, something more may be emerging through the digital realm. The debate is underway: design a life form, make up a few rules, establish the environment... push Go. Are the evolving forms on the computer screen actually alive? What about nanobots, biochips, gelware, quantum-computers? Might one or more of these (or other) technologies eventually become sentient? What then? Our science fiction mythologies offer possible clues to our future: What of Star Trek's Data - when is he/it self-aware? Cautionary tales: Terminator's Skynet, the global computer network that wakes up to self-awareness (in 1997!) and proceeds to dominate humankind with brutal logic. 2001's HAL, the computer that knew too much, and couldn't process paradox. Star Trek Next Generation's Borg, single-minded cyber-assimilators of all life forms. As we play midwife to new kinds of living systems, will we spiral into a techno-Twilight Zone, or "fold space" to a new evolutionary plane?
6:30 - 8:30	Dinner Buffet	Cafe
8:00 - 10:00	Ambient Salon	Vaults
Eric Kalabacos, Vordo
8:30	Telescience Demonstration: Internet Micro/Macro-scope	Sky Suite Patio
John Graham , Tom Bopp Real-time netcasting and telepresence interfaces are the building blocks of a new realm of global super-sensory organs. In this demonstration, internet video pioneer John Graham will take us (and anyone watching on the net) on a tour of microspace via an electron microscope at Argon National Labs, followed by a cosmic viewing of macrospace by comet-watcher Tom Bopp.
9:30	Nanotech and Artificial Life Explorations	Music Center Amphitheater
Scott Fisher , Charles Ostman Demonstrations of potential nanotechnology applications, including The Virtual Explorer developed by Scott Fisher at the University of California, San Diego, a realtime simulation of the human immune system - from the POV of a nanobot. Charles Ostman will present numerous examples of artificial life forms: molecular machines, self assembling "nano lego" components, nanobots and nanocritters, pseudo proteins, quasi viral components, "artificial" organisms, and ubiquitous nano "foglettes."
10:00	Techno Trance Dance	Cafe
music by Peter Z/Adam Om - Ceiba ; visuals by Crystal Soui and Dimension 7, environment by Dianna Rawleigh Techno is the new wave of do-it-yourself music that is emerging from digital composers, the craft of the DJ and the group ritual of spiritually-inspired dance gatherings the world over. Trance is on the cutting edge of the techno wave, drawing on trance dance rhythms from ancient and modern cultures, with a wide range of new sounds, samples and melodic lines that have never been heard before. The millennium vibration is at hand, and the youthful culture that resonates with it is planting the digital and spiritual seeds of a new civilization. Saturday night the Cafe at Arcosanti will be transformed into a ritual dance space, featuring ultra-modern music inspired by ancient rhythms and global mindscapes.
Sunday, Oct.26 8:00 - 10:00	Continental Breakfast	Cafe
10:00 - 2:00	Brunch Buffet	Cafe
9:00	River Walk	Agua Fria River
Roger Tomalty, Guide Discover the beautiful riparian environment of the Aqua Fria River in the cool of the morning with guide Roger Tomalty.
1:00 - 4:00	Ambient Salon	Vaults
Eric Kalabacos, Vordo, Adam Om, on turntables.
1:00 - 2:00	Cityspace Project	Vaults
Coco Conn Cityspace is an educational networking project that invites young people from across the internet to construct and explore a virtual city environment made up of stories, sounds, images, and models of their own creation. It has been exhibited at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto, the Boston Computer Museum and San Francisco's Exploratorium, and will be a permanent exhibit at the new Sony Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco.
1:50	Spoken Word Performance: "When the Three were One"	Vaults
Mark Pesce , with Vordo spinning vinyl.
2:00 - 3:30	The Paradox - Discussion	Music Center Amphitheater
4:00	Finé Ritual	Vaults