> I'd appreciate definitions for "ambient event," "bionic partying" (does that mean a chat room?),
> "the Organism," and especially "post-ironic"!

Ambient means "surrounding on all sides, encompassing". For those of us
WAY past college years an analogous term might be "happening" but from
what I can sense from the people involved (many young, not all) it means
more than a staged event or museum exhibit. It's immersive (another
trendy term these days), like a Jackson Pollock painting or a cultural
ritual.


> Excuse me, but I don't think all this arty jargon is going to attract many people who aren't "in"
> in the art world.  And that's *not* what we want for our Web site, or for any "virtual" (or
> "ambient"?) museum we might eventually set up!

That a museum director would say this is one of the reasons Americans
are so drawn to the immersive environments offered by Disney et al.

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