Artistic Combinations of Cultural Capacities of Ethnic Groups
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Abstract
"Strength through diversity" will remain an abstract platitude unless it is built on the foundation of concrete knowledge of differentiations in cultural capacities that reside in the peoples across the world. Art remains the keynote of thereby combining the different capacities in a way that the human orchestra is enriched with different instruments – in a way that no one group completely ‘drowns out’ the voice of any other. This talk will suggest ways of combining these skills, taking its start from the nuances present in language, cultural practices and racial heritage that can fruitfully add timbre to the individual voice.
Presenter Biography
Dr. Gopi Krishna Vijaya is from Bangalore, India. He has completed his undergraduate physics training from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India), and his PhD in Physics (Solar Energy) from the University of Houston in 2014. He is currently the Science Director of the Foundation for Cultural Renewal, and also engaged in the Postdoctoral Research of the Reciprocal System of Physics – a way to inculcate Goethean thought into modern physics – in Salt Lake City. In physics, he has been the author of journal publications in semiconductor physics, presented his work in multiple international conferences (IEEEPVSC, SPIE etc.), served as a research mentor for students and collaborated with MIT, Cal Tech, Imperial College London, UNSW and the University of Tokyo on Solar Energy. Apart from physics, his work spans geometry, chemistry, social threefolding, pedagogy, philosophy, as well as the relationship of digital technology to society, which are available at www.gopivijaya.com