Course origin
'Flat Time' was described last week by Barbara Steveni during Week 7 in a year-long series of weekly conversations about "Plausible Artworlds": Artist Placement Group (@ Basekamp & Apexart). During that discussion, a number of people expressed interested in exploring the idea of Flat Time, so we're proposing a Public School course focused on this concept (plus other directly connected ideas).
The irony about a Public School course on this topic is that "Public School" has a very different meaning in the UK than it does here in the US :) Anyway, after explaining The Public School to Barbara last Tuesday night, she's really into the idea of TPS courses linkeing to APG/O+I. So potentially Barbara, and Antony Hudek (curator of "The Incidental Person" exhibition at Apexart) could be involved in this and other APG-related TPS courses. Other proposals are welcome!
What is Flat Time?
'Flat Time' proposes a radical and unique cosmic model with major conceptual implications for the ways in which we view our universe and ourselves. Uniquely it proposes a model that includes both the observer and the observed in a manner which may overcome 'the measurement problem' for the first time. Surprisingly Flat Time has not come from scientists but from artists, yet is taken very seriously by the Physics Department of Imperial College. It proposes a radical reorientation of our whole approach to data, the cosmos and our own conscious experience. From starting points in theoretical physics, and originally called 'Event Structure', Flat Time was developed over 40 years by the late John Latham with the close collaboration of his fellow artist Ian Macdonald-Munro. If you are interested in New Paradigms, Cosmic Models, Quantum Gravity and the problem of understanding consciousness in terms of physics, you really need to read this.
Links:
http://www.theleastevent.com/introduction.htm
http://www.flattimeho.org.uk/
http://basekamp.com/about/events/artist-placement-group-basekamp-apexart
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