With the advent of new technologies we also need a spiritual protocols with regard to certain new technologies. In despair I turned to the other holiday book I had brought along, Marshall McLuhan's 1962 classic The Gutenberg Galaxy. After studying this book for a few days, I think I found the answer to my 'onbehagen' against science as it is presented nowadays in books like Tippler's or in one of all these 'science and art' symposia and exhibitions we have had these last few months. The world is not just visual, it's also tactile, auditory etcetera. The world is what we allow our senses to registrate, and the world of a shark is a different one from ours, because sharks have the electric current sense in the front part of their head that allows them to detect muscle movement in the water around them.
Science makes the bandwith of our sensory perception very small.
Art in my view should make the bandwith of sensory perception as broad as possible. They are projects with an opposite intention. Art can allow the world to be inconsistent and incoherent, because our human sensory perception is inconsistent and incoherent. I did not hear anything out of Wageningen yet.