THE STAGES OF SHARED EXPERIENCE

THE STAGES OF SHARED EXPERIENCEThis anthology, book of essays, and project book is a reaction to an unsettling paradigm shift: 'fragvergence'. As huge symphony orchestras, gigantic 'legitimate' theaters, museums, movie theaters, and even rock and roll shows crumble in interest and funding to that little $800 screen in your pocket we look up and feel 'alone together' we furiously glue ourselves together from our ranting on the couch on facebook, snapchat. We no longer make out in a

This anthology, book of essays, and project book is a reaction to an unsettling paradigm shift: 'fragvergence'. As huge symphony orchestras, gigantic 'legitimate' theaters, museums, movie theaters, and even rock and roll shows crumble in interest and funding to that little $800 screen in your pocket we look up and feel 'alone together' we furiously glue ourselves together from our ranting on the couch on facebook, snapchat. We no longer make out in a dark movie theater but sit in our shrinking apartments with out lovers and spouses and watch the Netflix we want to watch. In NYC's East Village, with a stream of young millennials marching like insects with face to screen, 'they look like ants following a pheromone trail with their heads down and nobody is looking at the city as interface or each other!Ó the shift has happened. Boohoo. The ape in the ant-heap might self correct. But how? And why? This is that finger pointing. In kinesthetic, old skool book form. Smell that new paper!