"Stretching out like one of the Buddha's great bejeweled parasols, the term Visionary Art encompasses a wide variety of styles, genres, periods and degrees of abstraction. Definitions abound, but here is my hard crystal: visionary art is art that resonates with visionary experiences, those undeniably powerful eruptions of numinous and multidimensional perception that suggest other orders of reality"

- Erik Davis, 'True Visions'

The Visionary Art Culture Creators discussion panel was presented by the Elvish Nation, Pod Collective, Elfintome and Crystal and Spore. Present at were representatives of a number of Visionary Art Culture Communities, Pod Collective (USA), Elfintome (Canada), Beinart (Australia), Zoetic Art (Galactik), Light Science (Canada), Lila (UK), Spectraleyes (Bali), Nectar Temple (USA), and Visionary Revue (France). They had gathered together to discuss and explore the present and future of the emerging visionary art culture.

Over the course of a week the Liminal Village conference and gallery was visited by many of the 25,000 festival goers from 80 countries. The Liminal Village presented 30 speakers and artists from 23 countries. The intention of this gathering was to create a mosaic message which can open up dialogues on many levels to help give momentum and generate inspiration for visionary art and culture.

In a world of rapidly dissolving borders and boundaries, the separation between the worlds of the imaginal and the worlds of the material are deepening their weave. With access to the knowledge and history of all cultures of the world, what was once separated by distance and language, is now being melded together. We now have access to the history of art from all different artistic traditions. The modern artist is steeped in influences from all artistic genres and art eras.

Fueled by the worldwideweb and vast evolutions in the quality of communications technologies, artists everywhere are being empowered to share their work with an increasingly global audience. Nodes, collectives, forums and galleries are emerging to represent countries, continents and even newly globalized art culture movements.

Advances in communications technology means artists who at one time were limited to representing in their own country can now share their work globally. In this way living artistic traditions all over the earth are influencing and being influenced by each other simultaneously. A global art culture is getting connected and with it come undreamed of potentials for collaborative artistic evolution.

Participants in the Visionary Art Culture Creators discussion panel were:

CONCEPT STEWARD AND MC : Delvin Solkinson

DJ : Naasko Wripple

VJ : Sijay James

ART PANEL : Luke Brown, Laurence Caruana, Andrew Jones, Leo Plaw, Carey Thompson,  and Jen Zariat.

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