Hi everyone! (I am reposting this from another mailing list because I think that it can interest many here: sorry if I'm wrong) My cancer decided to came back now I'm fine, don't worry: I have had another surgery that went well, and I'm fully recovering but this synchronicity has been really important for those who remember, back in 2012, when I had my first cancer, i used medical data to propose a global repositioning of disease in society: https://www.artisopensource.net/projects/la-cura/ a cure can happen only in the middle of society: that was the synthesis of La Cura, the global performance into which I had transformed my cancer, inspired by visionary innovators such as Franco Basaglia What is, now, La Cura at the time of COVID19? It turns out that it's a really meaningful continuation in the same direction: a cancer and a global pandemic perfectly show the coexistence of two dimensions: the individual and the ecosystem This coexistence has a tragic aspect: the two dimensions can be at open war with each other This was perfectly clear, for example, while being in the hospital: I risked not being able to have my surgery because of the COVID19 situation. This tragic character of the situation is exactly the condition which we'll start to face in the crises that are about to start coming up systematically: climate change, migrations, poverty, health, access and the others. The tragic coexistence between the individual and the ecosytem, and the problems that come with it: which are complex and, thus, irreducible. Complexity doesn't have "solution". It has a life, a way to cope with it, but not a solution in the sense of being able to reduce it to a point. There's no App for it. In today's life we have tried all to try to remove tragedy from our lives. And, instead, this new condition shows us just how much we need this tragic dimension in our lives. As tragedy is complexity, and complexity is tragic and irreducible: it just doesn't go away. And: with/after tragedy comes Agnition: the ability to understand, recognize and transform/adapt. In our world, this tragic dimension has a lot to do with data and computation. The complex phenomena of our planet can be only experieced through enormous quantities and qualities of data, and through the computation needed to collect them, and to processes and represent them. How can I experience climate change (as a global phenomenon, not just because it is hotter in my city)? COV19? Povety? etc Data, data, data, and computation. Understanding this tragic condition, in context, means that data + computation need to be addressed as existential issues, not as technical ones. This means a necessary focus shift towards finding/building the new rituals, times, habits, practices and traditions with which we will learn to inhabit our world through data and computation. This is, for example, what we've been doing with the Datapoiesis project: https://datapoiesis.com/home/ And this is what we will continue to do now, through this tragic continuation of La Cura. We started writing two articles about it: they're in italian for now, but if there's interest and if someone who speaks native english can help me out, we'd love to translate and share. Here they are, and we designed the article series so that we arrive at a total of 10 articles: https://operavivamagazine.org/sogni-e-nuovi-rituali/ https://operavivamagazine.org/i-rituali-del-nuovo-abitare-dopo-la-tragedia/ BTW: if anyone wants to join in: i think it would form a wonderful publications in these times of "La Cura VS COVID19" Thanks everyone: be safe and happy Salvatore -- Art is Open Source - http://www.artisopensource.net Human Ecosystems Relazioni - https://www.he-r.it/ Ubiquitous Commons - http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org