The global Covid pandemic with its covert, rapidly spreading pathogenicity of mutating variants, along with the hegemonic epidemic of computer hacking and the crisis of worldwide refugee diasporas, provoke urgent questions about a range of transmission enigmas. Long before history and technology, art initiated the transmission circuit. Prehistoric caves housed vividly painted images of wild animals that continue to enthrall and mystify thirty-five centuries later. In radical contrast, technophilia, the compulsively seductive allure of our hyperactive media, continues to become increasingly endemic. Powerful synaptic algorithms incessantly propagate synergetic labyrinths of instant information transferences whose interconnectivity and obsessive fission sustain the world while threatening its survival.

Ancient cave paintings, like those at Chauvet and Altmira, which feature colorful eidetic renderings of bison, aurochs, and reindeer made with pigments composed of dirt, red ochre, animal blood, and applied with twigs and bird bones, undoubtedly served the magical purpose of subduing and...

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