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chordata ||||||| PHILOSOPHY

Art is what puts the human face on technology.

With the awesome gains we have made in science and the almost incomprehensible acceleration of this knowledge, we still sense that something crucial is missing.

It’s our humanity, gone missing in the vast sea of myspaces and “connectedness”.

Hiding behind the glossy surface of all this technology that mesmerizes us so, we only seem to be more isolated and the world is ever more war-torn and dislocated.

We forget that information is not wisdom and in this Information Age, the quality of our lives and relationships with each other and the planet we live on, has deteriorated.

Humans are all lopsided these days.

If we can remember that art is the expression of our deepest emotions, our creative nature, and plays an essential role in enhancing and illuminating
our lives , we’re halfway home.

It’s like riding a bicycle: Once you learn , you never forget. It may be that the knowledge of how to live a rich, meaningful creative life (creativity being about problem solving and not consumption) has atrophied from under-use.

Part of our human inheritance, though, is that self-righting, self-repairing mechanism referred to as “adaptive resilience.”

Artists have honed the skills and have the tools to help unlock the creative core, the emotional wellspring in us all.

We started chordata to :

“ Support artists and work that is focused on re-establishing the value of art and, specifically, creative thought and the creative life in our technologically driven societies.
It is the artist’s emotional, creative intelligence that makes an essential contribution to human well-being, self knowledge, and wisdom.
Chordata plans to accomplish our goals through : Providing a unique multi-purpose space for project development, events, exhibitions, performances ; Administrative/Management support ; Self-sustaining entrepreneurial models and opportunities; Cross cultural exchanges ; Experiments with crossing mediums and collaborations ; Direct access for the public to the creative environment (a transparent laboratory).”