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Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future

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Episode Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future

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In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary Snyder, the following musing on the nature of time:

>THIS PRESENT MOMENT USED TO BE THE UNIMAGINABLE FUTURE

Interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert’s work uses neon, steel, and time to expand the scope and possibilities of the carefully chosen quotes she uses in her work. In This Present Moment, Brand’s quote flickers between its original form to Eggert’s subtly edited version:

>THIS MOMENT USED TO BE THE FUTURE

In this Long Now Talk, Alicia Eggert and Long Now's Executive Director Alexander Rose discussed time, art and long-term thinking.

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