art - GAIL [Global Action Improv Lab]

ARQ [Arts Raising Questions]

GAIL [Global Action Improv Lab] is evolving into a platform for coalition-building with nodes to support coalitions on different issues/ projects, starting with ARQ [Arts Raising Questions] – artists’ many diverse eyes on our world and tapping art as a way to teach creativity and critical thinking in all fields.

EYES ON OUR WORLD. When taking to the streets to protest is unsafe, artists’ eyes on the world speak.

Concerto Virtuale grows engagement via ARQ [Arts Raising Questions] as a pilot node focusing on all the arts (with or without A.I.). A.I. offers tools to support human artists. Artwork in turn engages the critical thinking and questions of many.

Example 1. Robert Reich is not only former U.S. Secretary of Labor and UCB professor but such a talented cartoonist that he could have had a third career. He has a > 1.3 Million substack mailing list, publishes his cartoons to his list and runs competitions for “best caption.” Suppose Reich broadened those cartoon caption competitions to reach a massive global audience. Both Reich and the network that promoted his cartoons would increase their list size. Cartoons + captions with most impact can become mascots + pitch lines for new coalitions.
Example 2. Now suppose we tap the ideas of many in a low-barrier-to-entry game exchange, starting with an online gallery with images like those below. Our aim is to engage many to caption images that speak to them, with images that attract the most/ best captions winning the popularity contest. Those who submit the most/ best captions also win. Some captions become pitch lines. Some art becomes iconic and symbolic for new coalitions.

An ARQ [Arts Raising Questions] node can have subnodes, perhaps for different media: cartooning, music, satire, scifi, theatre, visual arts, adding subnodes as each medium reaches critical mass. Arts competitions offer prospects to develop messaging for many existing or to-be-formed coalitions and a way to engage the next wave:

Invited Artists & Open Competition in 2 categories: human & human+A.I.-generated ARQ [Arts Raising Questions] selected for online exhibit by popular vote not only on the art but also on its title & caption (500 words or less) and the importance of the questions it raises.
Invited Authors & Open Competition for Science Fiction or Historical Fiction that raises questions
Invited Cartoonists & Open Competition for Cartoon Captioneers vs. Tyranny. Eclectic attractor coalitions can form around specific activities, bringing new members into the indivisible movement
Invited Filmmakers & Open Competition for Short Films
Invited Musicians & Open Competition in 2 categories: human & human+A.I.-generated Music that raises questions (any genre) to be selected for online exhibit by popular vote not only on the music but also on its title or caption (500 words or less) and the importance of the questions it raises.

Sample Protest Songs

Imagine that nodes in the GAIL online ecosystem operate the way Wikipedia does: many writers can co-author an article without knowing each other or seeking consensus. Similarly, they can be co-producers in a coalition developing a node for a project on GAIL. Wikipedia proved its viability in 11 months. Wikipedia’s global distribution of data centers, and multi-lingual versions, resist control by any one regime.

GAIL [Global Action Improv Lab] distills work of several decades, after studying at Harvard with Buckminster Fuller, being exposed to his World Game concept, later working as a Research Scientist at NASA designing programs for new cross-disciplinary collaboratories (CPSEs – Collaborative Problem-Solving Environments) to use the coming highspeed internet in the early days of Google, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia, and being inspired by Tim Berners-Lee’s original concept and Vint Cerf’s vision of a people-centered internet. GAIL will be an A.I. + human collaborative intelligence next generation social network, that empowers, rather than exploits, where humans are in charge, while A.I. performs scorekeeping, matching, and recommender system functions. GAIL is an evolution-inspired, distributed, bottom-up, next generation, coalition-building network, improvising to innovate, as evolution improvises and innovates.

Many are watching “the collapse of the American Empire” without asking: How is this useful? What can best be handled by the nation state, locally/ regionally, or must be addressed globally?

Climate change requires a global coalition.
Preventing abuse of military force, and use of A.I. in the military by a terrorist rogue state, requires guardrails.
Curtailing billionaire and corporate abuses of democracy must be handled globally, as economist Professor Gabriel Zucman and others have noted.

Journalist Whitney Webb dissects the mechanism of control being rolled out globally: The entire digital architecture—from government-backed CBDCs and stablecoins to the linchpin of Digital ID—requires a captive user base. Their strategy, Webb warns, is a classic “carrot and stick.” They cannot build the digital prison if no one bites the carrot. The allure of convenience and financial incentives is the “carrot” used to lure the masses in. Once dependency is established, “out comes the stick.” The ultimate goal is to engineer desperation, a population desperate to survive. When people are desperate, the hierarchy of needs is weaponized. They stop worrying about their civil liberties or constitutional rights and are just struggling to survive.