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Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Visit with students from Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique) and meeting with RYBN artists at the StockOverflow exhibition at iMAL, Brussels.
StockOverflow is an operation (exhibition and conferences) proposed by RYBN to recontextualize the crisis, its mediatic and politic strategies, on the topics of disaster, structural instability and financial markets mythologies.
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Exhibition: June 26 – July 10, 2025
Reception: Thursday, June 26 from 5:00pm-7pm
Cohen Commons
“The Digital Fourth Wall” combines the work of MFA candidates Natasha Beaudoin and Moira Hayes. Each artist studies the evolving Gen Z culture that emerges online and penetrates into the real, offline, world. Beaudoin and Hayes’ work meets at the intersection of reality and a generational view through a screen.
Each artist presents a series of portraits, the media traditional, but always with a twist. Through portraiture, the subjects are in direct contact with the fourth wall, be that at a safe distance or uncomfortably close. The scrutiny that exists in the separation of subject and viewer leaves space for the formation of narratives, ultimately providing a different interpretation for any audience.
Natasha Beaudoin is a portrait artist exploring the intersection of classical techniques and digital culture. Rooted in Caravaggio’s dramatic tenebrism, her work merges historical chiaroscuro with the digital glow of screens and modern photographic techniques. By manipulating digital imagery into traditional paintings, Beaudoin investigates online identity, self-representation, and the evolving visual language of Generation Z.
Beaudoin's practice recontextualizes portraiture by fusing spontaneous, screen-sourced images with painterly distortion, referencing social media’s role in shaping authenticity. Using bold colour, oversaturation, and “deep-fried” digital aesthetics, she highlights the tension between presence and absence in contemporary relationships. Inspired by artists Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, and Rómulo Celdrán, Beaudoin's work critiques digital superficiality while embracing its visual language.
Moira Hayes is a Canadian artist from London, Ontario. Hayes’ work utilizes a queer lens to explore the intersection of the canon of fine art and the inherent silliness of existence. By combining the historic canon with post-digital media, Hayes poses the question of who determines ‘good’ or ‘bad’ art, and why (or if) the answer matters.
Hayes is the recipient of the Margaret Atkins Award from the Bealart program in London, Ontario, and the Creative Innovator’s of Tomorrow Scholarship from NSCAD University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hayes has work published in Femme Art Review and Found You Magazine, and has shown at The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Good Sport Gallery, and Satellite Project Space. Hayes maintains a residency at Forest City Gallery and is currently an MFA candidate at Western University.
Cohen Commons Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2025; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Visit with students from Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique) and meeting with RYBN artists at the StockOverflow exhibition at iMAL, Brussels.
StockOverflow is an operation (exhibition and conferences) proposed by RYBN to recontextualize the crisis, its mediatic and politic strategies, on the topics of disaster, structural instability and financial markets mythologies.
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Visit with students from Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique) and meeting with RYBN artists at the StockOverflow exhibition at iMAL, Brussels.
StockOverflow is an operation (exhibition and conferences) proposed by RYBN to recontextualize the crisis, its mediatic and politic strategies, on the topics of disaster, structural instability and financial markets mythologies.
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Learn more about Goerg Burwick at www.georgburwick.com. On view at Cal State Fullerton’s Begovich Gallery project space in conjunction with Metadataphile: The Collapse of Visual Information. I was invited along with four other artists to transform and recontextualize Cory Arcangel’s Super Mario Bros clouds. In my project I attempt to create a cloudy sky my cutting out over a hundred Super Mario clouds out of construction paper.
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Pre-formed, 2010
Plastic packages, spray paint, flocking
29inches X 26 feet X 2 3/4 inches (entire installation)
We tend to know what something is by how it is contextualized, what if the context is shifted? In Hardware Store the clear packages common to hardware stores for selling quantities of small items are covered with color and texture. The combination fluorescent orange and stucco-like texture makes the work impossible not to notice yet hard to focus on. Surfaces transformed, the objects are rendered useless and recontextualized as art; the utilitarian shapes of the packages becomes opaque forms reminiscent of the minimalist cube. Unlike minimalism, this project utilizes the waste of mass production rather than the techniques and materials made possible by it. By this subversion of the packaging––the detritus of consumer culture––masquerades as art, as minimalism.
Please note: The color of these objects aren't in the range of most computer monitors. They are a fluorescent orange, like the color of sales tags or caution signs.
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
"Wanderline” is a project to transform the world's transportation networks (buses, streetcars, trains, roads, routes, walkways, etc.) into a new musical experience.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, humanity faced a pandemic which limited our ability to travel and physically connect with other people.
After having experienced profound isolation and travel restrictions, what kind of journeys will we make when we emerge from this pandemic?
"Wanderline" is a location-based, audiovisual application that allows such new travelers to enjoy music which can only be heard in a specific place. "Wanderline" can be experienced by installing the app on a smartphone and physically traveling along the featured “line” in geographic space.
The interactive music changes not only according to location but also according to speed, time, and weather; providing people with an experience that is unique to the moment.
This project collaboratively explores audiovisual experiences with creators by recontextualizing global transportation networks as open platforms for new music. Starting with Tram Line 1 of Linz, the project will then move to the water buses of Venice and will incorporate additional lines in the future.
How will the new "Wanderlust" inspire us creatively for the post-pandemic world?
"Wanderline" takes a fresh look at the various networks of lines created by humanity and presents us with a new form of journey.
Pre-formed, 2010
Plastic packages, spray paint, flocking
29inches X 26 feet X 2 3/4 inches (entire installation)
We tend to know what something is by how it is contextualized, what if the context is shifted? In Hardware Store the clear packages common to hardware stores for selling quantities of small items are covered with color and texture. The combination fluorescent orange and stucco-like texture makes the work impossible not to notice yet hard to focus on. Surfaces transformed, the objects are rendered useless and recontextualized as art; the utilitarian shapes of the packages becomes opaque forms reminiscent of the minimalist cube. Unlike minimalism, this project utilizes the waste of mass production rather than the techniques and materials made possible by it. By this subversion of the packaging––the detritus of consumer culture––masquerades as art, as minimalism.
Please note: The color of these objects aren't in the range of most computer monitors. They are a fluorescent orange, like the color of sales tags or caution signs.
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
TIMES UNION
‘Drawn Into Life’ exhibit elevates comics, cartoon art from page to gallery wall
Rick Marshall Aug 23, 2025
“I’ve always wanted to create a show that is all about comics, because as a cartoonist, I don’t see that kind of art in the gallery context,” said Melody Often, curator of the new “Drawn Into Life” exhibit at Schenectady’s Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery. “I think there’s something interesting about taking something that is a personal sort of book experience, or on your phone, or however you consume your comics, and putting it on the wall.”
The Capital Region is home to plenty of arts communities, from musicians and authors to dancers, filmmakers and game designers. “Drawn Into Life” aims to put a spotlight on one particular group of creatives: comics and cartoon artists with local ties.
The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 14 at the gallery’s Jay Street location, showcases individual panels, strips, animation cels and original art created by 11 artists. The intent of the show, according to Often — a comic creator herself and one of the show’s contributing artists — is to take sequential art out of the typical media in which it is consumed, and recontextualize it on a gallery wall.
Among the artists showcased in “Drawn Into Life” is Troy-based author and illustrator Eric Colossal (“Ghost Town,” “Rutabaga the Adventure Chef”), whose work fills several frames on one side of the exhibit. Colossal’s contribution to the exhibit offers an iterative look at his creative process, with scripts and thumbnail sketches displayed alongside finished pages from his published graphic novels.
In many cases, the exhibit positions roughed-out, early work from illustrators and traditional, black-and-white comic art alongside bold, brightly colored animation cels and conceptual pieces from local creators such as Sam Chung, an Albany artist who works in the game industry. Often said she first encountered Chung’s work while attending Fandom Fest at Proctors Theatre.
“It’s great to be out in the community and discover people, and then try to fit them together as a puzzle — to show how they’re similar and also how they’re different,” she said.
Eisner Award-winning artist Marcus Kwame Anderson, who worked with writer David F. Walker to reimagine Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” through Jim’s perspective in the 2024 graphic novel “Big Jim and the White Boy,” also has several pieces of original art in the exhibit. Instead of Anderson’s work in historical comics, the pieces featured in the exhibit are futuristic character profiles set in heroic poses that feel lifted from the pages of a sci-fi saga.
In-progress pieces from illustrator Sean Kelley — complete with preliminary, red-line sketches that precede final, inked art — offer a sample of his autobiographical mini-comics that chronicle his move to the hamlet of Alplaus in Schenectady County and his experiences on paternity leave with his son.
“I hope people can see themselves in my work,” said Kelley. “And I hope people can see that comics don’t have to look a certain way to tell fun and engaging stories.”
Meanwhile, the work of Troy-based, erotic comics artist Jess Fink, which has appeared in the New York Times as well as the Museum of Sex in Manhattan, also has a prominent place in the Schenectady gallery’s show. A page from her 2016 series “Isabelle & George” depicts an encounter between two star-crossed characters as they come to terms with their feelings for each other, sans dialogue, in a passionate sequence of panels.
“I am a huge proponent of comics in galleries,” said Fink. “Comics require so much thought and planning, making sure the storytelling is clear for the reader, being a set designer, costume designer and writer. They deserve to have that effort studied and appreciated.”
“I hope people can experience in a gallery setting the beauty and intricacy of craft involved in a story or joke well told,” she said.
The exhibit even offers a look at things to come from some of the artists featured in “Drawn Into Life.” Often included several pieces of art from the upcoming fifth issue of her own comic book, “Trinadot,” which will be released in September.
For Often, who worked with Bear and Bird owner Amanda Magnetta-Ottati to organize the show, the exhibition is an exercise in both bringing attention to their work and bringing local creatives together.
“We might not all be connected to each other, but I believe there are many, many creatives in this region. And we just need a way to be aware of each other,” she said. “Once you make a show like this, that’s celebrating this art, then it kind of attracts those people.
“And maybe it will inspire people who just need a little bit of a push to make comics themselves,” she added. “Because comics are wonderful.”
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
I'm preparing for an upcoming keynote later in November for an organization that just booked me, and asked them to share a bit of insight with me as to their current strategies, structure and innovation mindset.
It was a bit interesting to discover, when I found among the documents they sent me, this one around their strategic planning process. I'm not sure I am allowed to share it, but thought that I would because it just provides so much context!
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Memo: Strategic Adaptive Realignment for Forward-Looking Innovational Synergy
To: Leadership Team
From: Office of Transformative Future Pathways
Date: October 12, 2024
Subject: Catalyzing Hyper-Responsive Strategic Convergence for Next-Gen Ecosystemic Optimization
In today's hyper-dynamic paradigm, our strategic scaffolding requires immediate recalibration to future-proof against emergent disruptors and catalyze omni-directional innovation vectors. Our adaptive modalities must transition from linear, hierarchical constructs into multi-faceted, cross-collaborative frameworks that can flexibly pivot in real-time to align with macro-trajectory shifts in ecosystemic trendspace.
We must galvanize our operationally holistic alignment mechanisms to actualize a seamless innovation pipeline that is consistently enmeshed with quantum-transformational goals. The gravitational pull of tomorrow’s meta-disruptions mandates an immersive symbiosis between agility-centric governance and outcome-centric synergistics. By harnessing our core competency in proactive adaptation, we can transcend traditional growth inhibitors and actualize a new dimensionality in value creation.
At the core, our focus will be on amplifying perpetual readiness through iterative recalibration of our strategic matrices and optimizing fractal connectivity across interdependent operational nodes. Converging our resilience portfolios into a hyper-modularized framework will allow us to bridge innovation chasms and initiate value-chain rebundling in a way that preempts fluctuational variabilities in consumer touchpoint engagement landscapes.
Therefore, it is critical we cascade alignment protocols that reconfigure our execution modalities into a perpetual beta state, allowing us to achieve synergistic agility while preempting obsolescence within disruptive innovation vectors. By coalescing this philosophy into a cohesive, innovation-first ethos, we will pave the way for exponential cross-domain pivot capacity, thereby empowering each node within the strategic ecosystem to align its adaptive imperatives to the compass of forward-leaning progressivity.
In closing, a universal commitment to this hyper-resilient recontextualization of our strategic foundation will catalyze our journey toward holistic future-readiness. This document serves as the preliminary roadmap for tomorrow-centric transformation, redefining our organizational DNA to pivot and align relentlessly in pursuit of continuous, future-aligned innovation ascendancy.
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Attached to it was another internal memo written in response to this memo:
To: Leadership and Extended Impact Stakeholders
From: Department of Synergetic Quantum Realignment & Meta-Innovation Ecosystematics
Date: October 13, 2024
Subject: Strategic Paralysis Plan for Non-Progressive Organizational Alignment
In alignment with our mission to hyper-stabilize innovation stasis while fostering omni-channel synergy, we have developed a groundbreaking framework that strategically ensures activity without substantive progress. The Department of Synergetic Quantum Realignment & Meta-Innovation Ecosystematics is proud to present the following twenty initiatives that will engage organizational resources, leveraging them for maximum procedural engagement and minimal actionable outcomes.
Action Items for Optimal Strategic Paralysis:
Deploy a Synergistic Pivot Matrix Audit
Conduct frequency-specific reviews of pivot matrices, ensuring they overlap ambiguously with undefined objectives.
Leverage Quantum Proactivity Modules
Engage proactivity modules, targeting unlikely future disruptions to enhance abstract readiness.
Initiate Cross-Functional Feedback Loops
Formulate complex feedback structures across departments, aimed at generating insights without tangible outcomes.
Conduct Multi-Stage Resilience Verification
Validate organizational resilience using benchmarks irrelevant to current operational needs.
Launch a Meta-Disruptive Cohesion Taskforce
Assign a taskforce to oversee vague disruptive synergies with no defined scope or accountability.
Roll Out Proactive Capability Convergence Drills
Implement routine drills where teams converge undefined capabilities, optimizing for speculative readiness.
Institute Weekly Ecosystem Symbiosis Touchpoints
Enforce mandatory symbiotic touchpoints to promote system-wide cohesion in abstract, immeasurable ways.
Prototype Iterative Feedback Micro-Loops
Deploy micro-loops for feedback generation, designed to sustain repetitive review cycles without any real adjustments.
Facilitate Innovation Capacity Realignment
Reallocate resources to hypothetically critical innovation capacities, diluting efforts without noticeable impact.
Architect a Fractal Communication Framework
Build fractal communication systems ensuring every interaction is maximally complex yet strategically ambiguous.
Mandate Hyper-Anticipatory Strategy Sessions
Require bi-weekly sessions to plan for improbable scenarios, fostering strategic conversation without execution.
Synergize Omni-Channel Knowledge Cascades
Implement omni-channel cascades, ensuring knowledge disseminates broadly without actionable relevance.
Mobilize Quantum-Enabled ROI Forecasting
Introduce ROI models based on quantum principles, prioritizing speculative returns over tangible results.
Launch Divergent Goal Mapping Workshops
Encourage divergent workshops for goal setting, prioritizing conflicting paths to spread focus thinly.
Optimize Recursive Productivity Cycles
Assign cycles to revisit productivity metrics in endless review loops, avoiding substantive resolutions.
Coordinate Sub-Strategic Alignment Pods
Create pods with arbitrarily aligned goals, ensuring substantial resource commitment without clear outcomes.
Initiate Synergetic Holism Calibration Metrics
Implement metrics for “synergetic holism,” focusing on immeasurable, intangible benefits.
Deploy Agile-Oriented Bureaucracy Hubs
Establish hubs to refine agile principles through increased process formalities, thus creating agile-bureaucracy balance.
Integrate Non-Actionable Visionary Templates
Utilize visionary templates during planning, focusing solely on lofty, non-implementable objectives.
Orchestrate Continuous Feedback Vortexes
Develop feedback vortexes where team reviews cycle in perpetuity without leading to actionable change.
This initiative represents a landmark effort to solidify our stance as leaders in innovational stasis and non-disruptive engagement. It will empower us to consistently appear active, thereby fulfilling our objectives in activity-based operational stability.
We look forward to your engagement in these non-forward-moving yet enriching exercises.
Sincerely,
Department of Synergetic Quantum Realignment & Meta-Innovation Ecosystematics
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They were asking me for a 30 day plan. So I responded.
To: Leadership Team
From: Jim Carroll, Futurist
Date: October 28, 2024
Subject: Unacceptable Innovation Paralysis – Immediate Action Required
I have to be blunt – I’m shocked by the inertia and red tape choking innovation here. The hesitation, the endless procedures, the unwillingness to take a real risk – it’s stalling progress at every turn. You’re at a critical juncture, and if you don’t act fast to overhaul this culture, you’ll be left behind.
Here’s what needs to happen now: We’re cutting half the processes that delay decision-making – full stop. From this point forward, we’re embedding risk-taking as a core value, and every leader here is responsible for championing it. No more hiding behind what’s “safe” or avoiding hard calls; this team needs to prioritize speed, bold thinking, and actual results over protocol.
In the next 30 days, I expect to see a visible transformation. Every team must bring at least one risky, untested idea to the table, and we’re moving on it fast. This is your wake-up call. If you can’t shift gears now, the future will move on without you.
Let’s get to work.
Futurist Jim Carroll
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Of course, none of this is real. I had ChatGPT write it!
Please write a 500 word memo, full of incomprehensible buzzwords that has to do with the need to adapt a strategy to align to tomorrow and chase innovation. The paragraph should be as incomprehensible as possible.
Here's the thing. You've probably read memos like this.
Maybe you've written some stuff like this.
You shouldn't.
Just stop it.
Do you remember my post about "Bullshit Bingo" - a great game that went around the corporate world in the 90's?
Maybe it's time for a new one! So I had ChatGPT draw one up - take it into your next meeting!
The spelling isn't great, and there's a bit of duplication, but hopefully you can still use it!
Gotta go!
I have a Zoom call with the Chief Architect of Synergistic Quantum Evolution and Holistic Innovation Convergence!
#NoMoreBuzzwords #SubstanceOverSpin #RealInnovation #StopTheBS #ActionOverJargon #CutTheRedTape #ThinkBold #InnovationNotInertia #SpeakClearly #ProgressNotProtocol
Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-inspiration-leadership-innov...
'DEIFIK' brings you a new body of work by Sydney based artist Apeseven.
Taking heavily from recontextualizing natures patterns, DEIFIK uncovers the divine organic design in skeletal structural systems. Complex biofeedback driven landscapes take form and flight with redevelopment of old structures to provide the frame work for new life.
Opening 17th September 6-9pm at The Tate - Lvl 2, 345 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, Sydney
Opening Thursday 2nd October 6-9pm at the Just Another Project Space - 2A/127 Greville St Prahran, Melbourne (entry off Grattan Street)
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
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The E-mmerse represents a recontextualization of the notion of the performance vehicle. Currently high performance vehicles have specific means to attract an interaction with its user; be it visually through its aesthetic, audibly through the sound it produces or sensorially through the way it drives.