Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Para-pillars: again

Once more from the Lilly Fellows Network National Conference and St. Olaf.


After the talk on hacker ethics, alum Sam Graber remarked: sounds a bit like the Paracollege.  He was right about the commitment to knowledge, the cultivation of learning as playful, willingness to push the system in pursuit of these ends.

And, its memorial, "Para-pillars," invites the viewer to enter into the piece by planting one's feet on the plinth, to become a pillar, to do so looking out from the hill toward the town.  So, to be in a place, but not to be captive to it or limited by it.

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