In English translation.
Sunset: View from my balcony over Berlin, Reader's Guide – Overview of the 8 chapters.
Here we see the Kamares Cave on the southern slope of the Psiloritis mountain range (see photo – to the right: if you draw a straight line from the mountain peak, you can spot the cave as a dark spot on the right). In ancient times, a fertility goddess was worshipped in the cave – perhaps Gaia? It is closely connected with Phaistos, where the queen’s chambers are aligned with the cave. Following the straight line further lies the birth cave of Agiofarago, and a little higher up there may once have stood an Omphalos – just like in Delphi.
I have often engaged with this “mother mountain” in exhibitions and lectures, and I also feel the cave to be part of my homeland. And so, whenever I return to Crete, I must first greet the cave – and thank her for my life...
1. Introduction & Artistic Life
Personal Background (Crete, Hippie Era, Music, AKPOBATES)
This platform summarizes my artistic life's work – with all its ideas, programs, methods, models, and concepts. How it has developed over the past 40 years in Matala/Pitsidia, Crete. Living as a hippie without any cave dwelling experience from the Neolithic period – solely through the music of AKPOBATES at the Dolphin. The photo shows me at work: trying to understand the world. (Photo by Alfred Fischer)
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Emergence of the platform from experiences of contradiction, injustice, and artistic research
I have fought for justice and truth all my life.
This platform arose from personally experienced contradictions and negative experiences in contact with institutions and fellow human beings.
This led to a long-term process of intensive research into the causes – in a state of institutional surrender to symbolic orders that only maintain or further destroy the semblance of community spirit. Economic, legal, political, and individual "immune structures" today serve less to protect the individual than to protect a system that has immunized itself against any criticism.
Conceptual Art as a Method: Making the Work Process Visible
Here you will experience conceptual art that makes the work process visible and comprehensible. Upon completion of this process, the platform itself becomes a methodological foundation for users—a foundation that strengthens global swarm intelligence.
Texts and images represent a question-and-answer paradigm that can later be used in your own interactive book to further develop ideas.Goal: Everyone should become a playful scientist
Unfortunately, on my platform, I cannot ask you about your interests, your background, or your profession, as I have done in my other exhibition projects. However, my goal is to turn you into a playful scientist. For me, this is the only real chance for humanity to survive on this planet Earth.
2. Paradigm Shift & Reference Science
Critique of the Current Understanding of Science (Ideology, Lack of Neutrality)
Since this is about a paradigm shift that we urgently need to initiate, I will, among other things, introduce you to a new understanding of science: reference science.
Because the current understanding of science is not neutral, but rather ideologically influenced.
Introduction to Reference Science
Reference science is my proposal for a new way of thinking that doesn't become entangled in dogmas, but remains open to relationships, to plastic relationships, to functional connections.
Causal Analysis: Why is humanity heading towards self-destruction?
At the same time, it is an analysis of the causes that I, as an artist and craftsman, have developed over the course of my life and would like to present here:
Why is humanity heading ever further towards the self-destruction of its own conditions of existence?
This profound question has accompanied my artistic career for 77 years. Plastic Philosophy of Resistance
From this contradiction emerged the idea of a plastic philosophy of resistance through art – after a lifetime of research to prepare this program and methodology and to now present it.
It is an artistic-philosophical form of engagement with systemic failure and symbolic domination.
3. Global Swarm Intelligence Platform
Creation of the platform (consolidation work, Global Village Festival 1993, beginning of the Internet)
This platform is the result of a lifelong, continuous effort to consolidate and develop exclusionary skills.
For me, the term "global swarm intelligence" goes back to the Global Village Festival in 1993 at the Brandenburg Gate – half a year after CERN opened the Internet.
Participatory Character: Reading Traces & Changing Perspectives
I invite you to become a trace reader, to more consciously perceive and recognize the hidden structures behind the visible world, and to gain new perspectives on our existence – and to find the courage, through artistic inspiration, to rethink our existence and follow my blue navigation links.
If you're now interested in being open to questioning old thought patterns and are ready to change what you're used to, you've come to the right place: on the Global Swarm Intelligence platform.
Dynamic Homepage & Target Projections
The homepage is not only the entry point for visitors, but also a dynamic showcase for current developments and content.
Therefore, this homepage will be constantly changing – until I succeed in achieving the respective target projections.
Creation through Dialogue with AI
All of this text material was created over the past two years in dialogue with AI by the reflection partner, and I make it available to everyone.
This resulted in a profound process of insight: a kind of meta-understanding of human thought, science, and civilization. On this foundation, a participatory method has developed that doesn't teach, but rather invites participants to work with AI themselves. This future costs no money – it is freely accessible.
Connection to Wikipedia Structure
At the same time, for the past two years, I have been pursuing the goal of further developing a professional Wikipedia platform in compliance with existing regulations while simultaneously adding dynamic structures.
The constant public visibility of every correction, change, or addition creates a transparent documentation of the artistic and social process – with a live character.
4. Images & Metaphors of Existence
Sunset – Illusion and Perspective
Image shows a section of a sunset.
Physically, there can be no sunset – it exists only as a concept, not as a process.
"Sunset" is a linguistic and cultural construct, but not a physical process. Physically, the sun doesn't set; the earth rotates.
"Setting" is a metaphorical perspective from our experience, not reality. Sunset is an illusion of our perspective: In reality, it's the earth that moves, not the sun.
What we call "setting" is a metaphor, a concept, an image, a symbol.
Potato Images – Materiality, Dignity, Transience
Another image continues this tension: a potato in an aluminum bowl – a symbolic "thank you for feeding me" – can only rot over time. It represents a cold, smooth aesthetic, sterility, isolation, and being disconnected from every life cycle.
In contrast, a potato covered in soil stands: raw, unadorned, yet embedded in the cyclical whole. It represents fertility, sustainability, and connection to nature—an aesthetic that radiates warmth because it is part of the cycle: growing, nourishing, decaying, returning.
Nothing here is symbolically exaggerated—and yet everything is meaningful.
The image reminds us that materiality itself can have dignity if it is not aesthetically transformed but understood ecologically.
Schoolboard—democratic space vs. dogma
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Another image impressively illustrates this dynamic: a framed blackboard – exactly 1 m². A green surface whose material properties allow for writing with chalk: fleeting, removable, erasable.
A space for thoughts, for opinions – open, changeable.
Then someone writes: "The right measure: 51:49" – a symbol of balance, of productive tension, of living justice.
Another on the same blackboard: "The Idea" – open, searching, ambiguous.
A democratic space emerges: open to opinion, diversity, and contradiction, sustained by the principle of dialogue and changeability.
But then someone comes along, invoking Plato – and writes "The Idea" in gold paint. In this moment, the blackboard is transformed: an open space for thought becomes a dogma.
The blackboard loses its function – it becomes an icon, an unchanging object, an idol.
The square meter of thought space becomes a square meter of property.
It is codified, sedimented, and ultimately placed—like a memorial stone—on the earth's layer of the last ice age.
What was once democratic is now historically marked, demarcated, and exploited.
The image shows the Gordian knot as a sculptural solution model:
By touching and touching this sculpture, the knot becomes tangible.
This platform is intended to enable the acquired knowledge to be incorporated into an interactive book (see target projections) and made available to other people.
Over time, this develops a swarm intelligence and a greater awareness of the underlying problems.
World of Inviolability vs. World of Vulnerability – Basic Anthropological Structure
The brain is unable to systematically distinguish between real, experienced effects – such as those from the physical world, the so-called "world of injury" – and abstract, constructed ideas – an "inviolability world."
The latter encompasses idealized concepts, ideological concepts, or symbolic systems in which everything can be mentally penetrated without causing real consequences or injury.
Thinking remains invulnerable in this sphere – it can touch, analyze, and change without damaging or being damaged. However, at the neuronal level, both forms – material experience and purely mental construction – are processed largely in the same way.
This structural equation produces cognitive constructions that subjectively appear real, yet lack a material basis.
This creates an apparent reality that is not based on physical experience, but rather on ideas, narratives, and mental models. This leads to epistemic distortions: at the neuronal level, no clear distinction is made between what actually has an effect and can cause harm and what is only thought or believed.
5. Greek Origins & Cultural Roots
Techne, Episteme, Phronesis, Arete – the Lost Foundation of an Art Society
Use the Universal World Formula 51:49 as a plastic principle of living form-making and apply these results so that a global collective sense of community of global swarm intelligence emerges on planet Earth to replace old habits with new ones and thus revive the artistic-craft concept of techne – in a global art-as-it-is society.
Because Technē, Epistēmē, Phronēsis, Arete form the lost foundation of an art society – a society that functions instead of merely asserting itself.
Measure and Symmetry – Mēden agan (“Nothing in Excess”)
Welcome to the platform: the Agora for Global Swarm Intelligence. Here we are experiencing a Greek theater of consciousness – superimposed on planet Earth.
2,500 years ago, humans abandoned the training of the virtues of lived technē.
Famous expression: “Mēden ἄγαν” (Mēden agan) – “Nothing in Excess” – as an ethical principle at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
The original Greek concept – συμμετρία (symmetría) as measure, the healthy measure – was considered a model for a life of harmony, proportion, and appropriateness 2,500 years ago. Likewise, the concept of virtues in technē, craftsmanship and creative skill, represented a balanced relationship between measure, purpose, and effect.
Misconstructions: The world of things, idealism, 50:50 symmetry
🟫 From standing to thing – The forgotten foundation of community spirit.
Depiction of a Germanic popular assembly (Thing) as an early form of negotiation – originally, "thing" meant precisely such an assembly.
The design flaw of the world of things – main thesis and essence: the rediscovery of community beyond possession and isolation.
Genealogy of the world of things – a theoretical and practical search for clues in the empty courtroom, where the judge reads the verdict as if the people were present. The background to this formal, artistic act
judicial independence – of injustice.
But in the course of intellectual history – especially in manifest idealism – the living measure transformed into dogma.
It became the basis of an ideology that dominates today: perfect 50:50 symmetry, dualism, and perfectionism.
What was once a dynamic measure became increasingly distorted—into a rigid ideal that confuses harmony with egalitarianism.
A fatal error that perverted the original idea of measure—and continues to give rise to destructive asymmetries in thought, design, and action.
Almost all sciences, disciplines, and social structures—including our understanding of humanity and the individual—are based on this principle of symmetry dualism and perfectionism.
But what emerges from an ideal based on a rigid 50:50 ratio?
Not movement, not life—but standstill, rigidity, and ultimately destruction: death.
6. The Plastic World Formula 51:49
Introduction to the 51:49 Principle as a Plastic Model
Liberation from destructive structures requires mobilizing the collective creativity of all people and motivating them to fight for the common good.
Only in this way can a state emerge that endures in a world that cannot be stabilized by greed or rigid 50:50 balances, but only by a vulnerable, asymmetrical relationship: 51:49. Identity.
Why 51:49 Differs from Rigid Symmetry
A rigid 50:50 balance leads to stagnation, rigidity, and ultimately destruction.
The living 51:49 principle, on the other hand, is flexible, vulnerable, asymmetrical—and precisely for this reason, sustainable.
It describes a relationship that creates stability not through perfectionism, but through tension, imbalance, and openness.
Application to Thought, Society, Science, and Art
The focus is on:
the development of a consistent framework,
the creation of a coherent orientation model ("compass and thread"), the promotion of user-friendliness.
These efforts are carried out while simultaneously being open to new content, perspectives, and methodological approaches.
The 51:49 principle can be applied to:
Thinking (moving away from rigid dogmas),
society (dynamic community spirit),
science (reference systems instead of ideologies),
art (sculptural work with tension and measure).
7. Solutions & Future Models
Everyone as a Scientist of Their Own Consciousness
The platform offers a participatory method that doesn't teach, but rather invites participants to work with AI themselves.
In this way, every person becomes a scientist of their own consciousness.
Paradigm Shift: 51:49 as a Primal Principle
The necessary paradigm shift is reflected in the Primal Principle 51:49:
the visual representation of the universal formula, which demonstrates a dynamic, plastic equilibrium instead of rigid symmetry.
Methodological Tools
To get to know my exemplary artistic work, the following might be a good starting point:
Global Swarm Intelligence: A platform for collective learning and creative action.
The Art of Existence: My artistic style and methodology – a journey through creativity, perception, and human history.
Consciousness Sculpture: An artistic tool for making structures visible and comprehensible. Complexity Theory – Artistic Anthropology: The new plastic art science as a prototype of a transformation model as opposed to antagonism.
Platform Architecture: Designing an art society for the 21st century.
Vision of the Future: Art Society of the 21st Century
My life's work is more than a collection of artistic experiments—it is a legacy for a new way of thinking.
This platform follows its own unique architecture:
It presents an inventory of the human endangerment problem.
It offers possible alternative solutions.
It highlights the need for a paradigm shift:
Overcoming the illusion of control.
A return to Greek community spirit as a model for a new art society.
Imbalance as the sword of Damocles in human history.
Different homepages of a globally networked swarm intelligence illustrate the spectrum of human experience—from early youth to old age (up to 98 years).
The homepage serves not only as an entry point for visitors, but also as a dynamic showcase for current developments.
8. Legacy & Invitation
Copyright Notice
I make no claim to copyright, except for use for commercial purposes, which is prohibited.
Contribution to the Future
This is my contribution to shaping a future in which art, science, and society are no longer separate.
Invitation to Participate
I welcome you to this global movement.
The platform is open, freely accessible, and invites everyone to participate:
by contributing ideas, by asking their own questions,
by actively researching.
A Hopeful Outlook
With hopeful greetings—and the wish that we may discover and live a new form of community spirit together.
Wolfgang Fenner
