Journey of the Peace Cubes


Queries on Opening to the Light
An inspiring set of Quaker Queries on Opening to the Light, presented by Barry Morley at Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1988.
Maryland item, text, reference
1988.08.08 - Monday, 8 August information-habitat.net/queries
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    September 11 Peace Memorials
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Queries on Unity with Nature
Queries, or probing questions, that arose from a perspective that sees people in unity with nature, not apart from it. These queries were subsequently published as the Quaker contribution to the 1989 Environmental Sabbath resource guide developed by the U.N. Environment Programme.
Baltimore, MD item, text, reference
1989.04.01 - Saturday, 1 April information-habitat.net/queries/uwn.htm
    Homewood Monthly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends
    Friends Committee on Unity with Nature
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends
    Earthcare Interfaith Network
    United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!
"Oh Say Can You See By the One Light in All!" was dedicated as the Fifth Verse of the US National Anthem at an Interfaith Sunrise service at Fort McHenry, home of the Star-Spangled Banner and a brief description of how the Star Spangled Banner became adopted - through a grassroots process - as the U.S. National Anthem.
Baltimore, MD
1990.04.22 - Sunday, 22 April information-habitat.net/oh-say-can-you-see
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Earth Day 1990
    United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    September 11 Peace Memorials
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Habitat II Online: Invitation to a Journey
Statement at 1996 Earth Day celebration at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, extending an invitation to participate in a journey - to Istanbul and beyond; a journey of recommitment to the principles and values of Earth Day; a journey of discovery and exploration of new ways and tools with which we can work together in fulfilling the vision of Earth Day.
New York, NY
1996.03.20 - Wednesday, 20 March information-habitat.net/journey
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Partnership Plan of Action
    Earth Society Foundation
    Habitat II Online
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet
Web site for the 1997 celebration of Earth Day on the Equinox at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, with the theme "A Culture of Peace". The ceremony was broadcast live on the Internet via streaming video.
New York, NY
1997.03.01 - Saturday, 1 March information-habitat.net/earthday
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Earth Society Foundation
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


Dedication of the Peace Cube
Dedication of the Virtual Light and Colour Cube as a Peace Cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet ceremony at United Nations Headquarters on 1997.03.20
New York, NY
1997.03.20 - Thursday, 20 March information-habitat.net/one-light/dedicate.htm
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Earth Society Foundation
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Images from the Peace Cube
Images developed from the presentation of the "virtual light and colour cube" at its dedication as a peace cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet Ceremony at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, New York. The images highlight rhythmic qualities, photographic negativity, and the primary lights and pigments of the cubes.
New York, NY
1997.05.01 - Thursday, 1 May information-habitat.net/images
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


Virtual Light & Colour Cubes - Properties of Light, Gifts of Nature, Catalysts of Peace
Compelling visual introduction to the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes. Provides a brief visual overview of the principal characteristics of the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes / Peace Cubes
Brooklyn, NY item, text, reference
1998.07.01 - Wednesday, 1 July www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-cubes.ppt
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Habitat II
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Development Planning Unit, University College London


Cycles of the Peace Faces
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
1998.08.04 - Tuesday, 4 August tinyurl.com/of3p


Primary Colours: A Proof
Introductory presentation on the nature of primary colours based on the existence of - and symmetry and complementarity between - two sets of primary colours - red, green & blue for light; cyan, magenta & yellow for pigment.
New York, NY item, text, reference
1998.09.01 - Tuesday, 1 September www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-llc-primary.ppt
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Y2K Three States Network
Web site for the Y2K Three States Network of representatives of public agencies and managers of public utilities and transportation networks concerned with computer-date-related Year 2000 preparations in the New York City tri-state area - New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
New York, NY
1998.09.01 - Tuesday, 1 September [www.y2k3states.org]
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Ad Hoc Working Group on the Year 2000 Crisis


Light and Colour Cubes - Templates for Cubes and Faces
For building 5cm / 2" models of the light and colour cubes, and creating sets of the twelve "face cards" of the cubes - the surfaces of colour.
Brooklyn, NY
1999.01.01 - Friday, 1 January www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-lcc-template.htm
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Development Planning Unit, University College London


Faces of the Peace Cube
Introduction to the faces of the light and colour cubes - and to a three-dimensional mathematics of light and colour. 10 slides / pages. Generated in Powerpoint; pdf format.
Brooklyn, NY
1999.10.24 - Sunday, 24 October www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-lcc-faces.pdf
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Development Planning Unit, University College London


Images of the Peace Cube
Presentation of images from the 1997 Equinox Earthday dedication of the Light and Colour Cubes as Peace Cubes. pdf format, generated in PowerPoint (r).
Brooklyn, NY
1999.10.25 - Monday, 25 October www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/dpu-pip/cop-lcc-images.pdf
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Development Planning Unit, University College London


Nine Primary Colours
A presentation of the primary equations of colour and light, the symmetry of light and pigment, and the nine primary colours. Nine Primary Colors is also a demonstration and appreciation of the power of zero in the three-dimensional mathematics of colour - and in any numeric system.
Brooklyn, NY
2000.07.01 - Saturday, 1 July one-light.net/primary-colours
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Diagonal Faces of the Light and Colour Cubes
A set of twenty-four of the forty-eight diagonal faces of the cubes - the twelve in which either black is at bottom or top, or where white is at the top or bottom. Click on any images that gets your attention - when you see it at the center, its negative is in the lower right.
New York, NY
2000.09.01 - Friday, 1 September information-habitat.net/faces-vertical
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


Peace Cubes - Gifts of Light
Home for the Peace Cubes - Virtual Light and Colour Cubes that are at the centre of a three-dimensional mathematics of colour and light and that can transform our understanding of the nature and dimensions of light and colour. The Peace Cubes can also serve as vital elements in a new global curriculum on mathematics, colour and light, as symbols for the One Light in all of Creation, and as teaching tools on the properties of knowledge-based economies, and as an introduction to the properties of zero-based economy. All of the images are computer-generated, the most recent images based on HTML tables generated from a DataPerfect database, as were most of the sets of web pages of images.
Brooklyn, NY collection, image, digital art
2000.10.22 - Sunday, 22 October information-habitat.net/peace-cubes
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Peace Faces - Faces of the Peace Cubes
A meditation on the forty-eight faces of the light and colour cubes. Each face represents a meeting place of four primary colours and may evoke a unique feeling. Each face is framed below a frieze of the eight rotations and reflections of itself. At the loer right of the face is its photographic negative. A bottom frieze contains small icons of the forty eight faces. Easy - and enjoyable; forget about words; let your eyes and feelings guide you.
Brooklyn, NY collection, image, digital art
2000.10.24 - Tuesday, 24 October information-habitat.net/faces
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Peace Tiles - Gifts of Light
A set of the ninety-six peace tiles - based on mirror images of the faces and the cycles of all possible pairs of contiguous faces of the Peace Cubes. Each colourful tile is framed below a frieze of the corresponding faces. The bottom frieze contains the photographic negative of the tile. Below that are the sixteen "cycle tiles" corresponding to the faces of the main tile. Sound complicated? In practice it is easy - and fun if you let your eyes and feelings guide you. Virtually no words, yet simple to grasp visually.

The web site for the Peace Tiles was launched on October 24, United Nations Day, 2000.

Brooklyn, NY collection, image, digital art
2000.10.24 - Tuesday, 24 October information-habitat.net/tiles
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


Rivers of Light Variations
Rhythmic rivers of light based on the fundamental cycles of the Peace Cubes / Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, above a phoographic negative of the same. Exhibited at Isha Shabaka's IdefineArt studio in Brooklyn, NY at the natural turn of the Millennium, the Winter Solstice, 2000.
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
2000.12.21 - Thursday, 21 December information-habitat.net/bridges/river.htm
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    September 11 Peace Memorials


Birth of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
An exploration in connections between the Light and Colour Cubes and the colours of the rainbow, Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves represents a mapping of the colurs of the cubes onto a sine wave, in which the cycle of colours seems to evoke the colour sequence of the rainbow. The development of the Rainbow Cubic Sine Wave took place over two days very shortly on the birth of the Cubic Colour Wheel, reflecting an openness to softening the sharp edges of the Cubes, as well as to focus attention on some of the rhythmic and cyclical properties of the cubes.
New York, NY
2001.11.14 - Wednesday, 14 November  
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    September 11 Peace Memorials
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves - Beginning to add colour
New York, NY
2001.11.15 - Thursday, 15 November tinyurl.com/osky
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves - Filling in the blanks
New York, NY
2001.11.16 - Friday, 16 November tinyurl.com/osle
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Meditations on One Light in All: Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
An endless sequence of cycling "rainbow cubic sine waves" - based on a mapping of the colours of the Light and Colour Cubes onto the shape of a sine wave in a quest to reconcile and connect the cubes and the rainbow, as well as to bridge the gulf between the square and cube and the circle and sphere.
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
2001.12.10 - Monday, 10 December information-habitat.net/reconcile/rcsw.htm
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Rainbow Cubic Sine Waves
    September 11 Peace Memorials
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Meditations on One Light in All: Queries on Opening to the Light
A meditative online presentation of the Queries on Opening to the Light - a presentation that serves as the opening segment of a Journey of Light, Reconcilation and Peace prepared in response to September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.
New York, NY item, text, reference
2001.12.13 - Thursday, 13 December information-habitat.net/queries
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    September 11 Peace Memorials
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Beacons of Light and Colour
A cycle of eight images of the skyline of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - illuminated by the arrival and receding of the Light and Colour Cubes in an endless cycle. Clicking on the image enables more information, and access to prior and next steps in A Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
2001.12.14 - Friday, 14 December information-habitat.net/twin-beacons
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
    September 11 Peace Memorials


Images from the Peace Cubes
An updated presentation of images developed from the presentation of the "virtual light and colour cubes" at its dedication as a peace cube at the Earthday on the Equinox on the Internet Ceremony at the Peace Bell at United Nations Headquarters, New York on March 20, 1997. The images highlight rhythmic qualities, photographic negativity, and the primary lights and pigments of the cubes.
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
2001.12.15 - Saturday, 15 December information-habitat.net/images


Meditations on One Light in All: Twin Cubes of Light and Colour
A set of twelve cycling page with images of mirrored twin pairs of Light and Colour Cubes, showing all possible regular presentations from the white and black apexes of the cubes. The images are clickable, providing access to more information and to other phases of the Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace.
New York, NY
2001.12.15 - Saturday, 15 December information-habitat.net/twin-cubes
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
    September 11 Peace Memorials


Meditations on One Light in All: Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes
A cycling series of twenty-four pages with images of "Twisted Pairs of Light and Colour Cubes" - pairs of cubes in which the one is the unseen side of the other.
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
2001.12.16 - Sunday, 16 December information-habitat.net/twisted-pairs
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
    September 11 Peace Memorials
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum
    Digital Bridges in Peace


Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in Primary Colours
A set of eight cycling images with the principal protagonists in a War of - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden - against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes and of the six non-zero primary colours.
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
2001.12.18 - Tuesday, 18 December information-habitat.net/reconcile/primary.htm
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
    September 11 Peace Memorials
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Meditations on One Light in All: Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes
A set of seventy-two images with the primary representatives of the September 11 protagonists - President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell and Osama bin Laden against backgrounds of the Light and Colour Cubes transposed into sixteen colour images, and serving as visual metaphors for ways that our perception of our enemies can be distorted when we see them from a limited palette, and one in which our enemies' colours are only partially represented.
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
2001.12.19 - Wednesday, 19 December information-habitat.net/reconcile/16colour.htm
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Journey of Light, Reconciliation and Peace
    September 11 Peace Memorials
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum


Vertical Faces of the Peace Cubes
New York, NY
2002.01.30 - Wednesday, 30 January information-habitat.net/faces-vertical
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes


Towards a Curriculum in Information Ecology: Partnership, Informatics and Participation
A compilation of documents and images relating to the development of a curriculum in Information Ecology in cooperation with the Development Planning Unit - Partnership, Informatics and Participation University College, London
New York, NY collection, text, reference
2002.03.02 - Saturday, 2 March  
    Journey through Rio, Istanbul and Johannesburg
    Habitat II Online
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Partnership, Informatics and Participation
    Development Planning Unit, University College London
    Information Ecology Curriculum
    Elements of Information Ecology - An Open Source Curriculum


Digital Bridges in Peace
Installation in the Digital Bridges @ Westbeth exhibit, with Reconciliation in 16 Colour Palettes as the centrepiece, framed by sets of images based on the Light and Colour Cubes.
New York, NY collection, image, digital art
2003.08.01 - Friday, 1 August information-habitat.net/bridges
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Digital Bridges in Peace


Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Souce Curriculum
Design, development and implementation of an open source curriculum in the elements of light and colour, based on the properties of the Virtual Light and Colour Cubes, incorporating an elementary three-dimensional mathematics of light and colour and a new appreciation and understanding of the nature and characteristics of the primary colours of light and pigment.
item, text, reference
2003.10.11 - Saturday, 11 October projects.takingitglobal.org/light-elements
    Virtual Light and Colour Cubes
    Elements of Light and Colour - An Open Source Curriculum
    Elements of Information Ecology - An Open Source Curriculum