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twists and turns. waking before the early dawn to see the cloudless sky painted in many colors. silence broken by the furnace, and the cat who, once she realizes anybody is awake, begins to yowl for...
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got a phone today. back to mobile living. way-points. stadia. and organizing life. measuring all things. and along comes a small hypertext work, notes on networks. I call it the silke text — it was...
View ArticleI couldn’t understand it
my primary work when one calls it that, is the work in fundamental critique of the (meta)structure(s) that we are embedded in, in this sensual reality. it is not about the exigencies of work. It is...
View ArticleCarillion article
for the record, as the university (of Colorado) no longer publishes nor maintains the archive of this magazine, this is the text of an article done by a CU J-School graduate student, Nicole Gordon....
View Articleproto definitions
the end of this year approaches. I jot down some definitions for class: Proto definitions: digital art – artifacts/performances enabled by a digital device (computer)net art – art(ifacts?) on the net...
View Articlewomanifesto
my entry for the exhibition womanifesto Procreation/Postcreation in Bangkok that Varsha asked me to join — turns out that she uses the simple entry as a main element of the exhibition poster, invites,...
View ArticleVulgi opinio Error
speaking of modern, post-modern, along with avant-garde, and such terms… some very abstract musings: I am wondering if there is a connection between the concept of being ‘avant garde’ or ‘modern’ with...
View ArticleRexroth
Mr. Sobol, while mentioning his wonderful gigblog, finds resonance in my travelog and the work of Kenneth Rexroth, and sends one of Rexroth’s works along. Inversely, As The Square Of Their Distances...
View Articlethe Great Society
on the way back from Phoenix, a stop at Arcosanti, which seems to be tired and spent, not so much changed since I visited about 20 years ago. some of the constructions seem to be very comfortable...
View ArticleValentines
White Heliotrope The feverish room and that white bed, The tumbled skirts upon a chair, The novel flung half-open, where Hat, hair-pins, puffs, and paints are spread; The mirror that has sucked your...
View Articlethe travelog
catching up with the kids to see how they grow. and plenty of chances to participate in the raptor hunting/feeding events despite the icy snow and such weather that I’m not so used to. prepping to...
View Articlegarden house
tippling, tripling, toppling, tanking. what to say. when texts compile, and interesting meetings line up, and projects pile up, and such like. Kiel is busy, but folks are not feeling too well, sick...
View ArticleArt and Teaching Philosophy
ART Art, at its social core, is the trace of an engaged pathway. A pathway that conducts the circulation and exchange of creative human energies as they are attenuated by a vast range of mediative...
View ArticleMigrating: Art: Academies: done
After eight weeks of intensive effort, sometimes re-writing almost from scratch a wide range of (English-second-language) articles, essays, and academic papers, the second and final book from the MigAA...
View Articlechilly morning words
Chilly morning words form. Brushing away the crust of ice formed by dreams of last night. And other morning words of resolution. Or just thoughts. Words. With cornbread heating in the oven. New warmth...
View Articlethe big road
Coming soon to the Digital Drive-In terminal nearest you will be the traffic reports direct from America courtesy of the artist John Hopkins who will be rolling west on The Big Road during the month of...
View ArticleFYI – thesis stats
Words 62396 Unique Words 7990 Characters 389373 Characters In Words 311542 Sentences 3469 Average Word Length 5.0 Average Sentence Length 89.8 Average Words Per Sentence 18.0 Long Words (7 or more...
View Articletech-no-madic meditations
On the road again / Going places I’ve never been / Seein’ things I may never see again / I can’t wait to get on the road again… — Willie Nelson This unfinished sketch of text, expelled in November...
View ArticleEverything in the universe
Everything in the universe, and everything of man, would be registered at a distance as it was produced. In this way a moving image of the world will be established, a true mirror of his memory. From a...
View Articlenotes on creativity
most of the texts that I have been absorbing in the last weeks deal with creativity as a discontinuous (non-cyclic) and anomalous event rising above the normal “level” of daily life. this view is an...
View ArticleThe Field of Attention, The Field of Flows
Slipping through a day, from dawn to late evening, time is a field of flows. Attention calls flow from its progress, delineating it temporarily as distinct and heterogeneous. Pass through...
View Articlemore on the archive
A bit overwhelming, faced with thousands of images and texts in analog form. How to go about it, especially as there is no possibility of waving hands and all get transformed to digital gems. Dross...
View Articleipse dixit:
New York Times comment: Just as a mass deflects the space-time continuum around it, every organism changes the flux of energies it is immersed within merely by its presence. Ecosystems are simple...
View ArticleThe (Tantric) Science of Sound
by Rooji Saluja In tantra, there exists an entire science that makes use of sound energy in spiritual practice. Mantras are sonic vehicles that encapsulate mystical energy and direct it towards...
View Articleimagination morte imaginez
One of my favorite Beckett pieces: No trace anywhere of life, you say, pah, no difficulty there, imagination not dead yet, yes, dead, good, imagination dead imagine. Islands, waters, azure, verdure,...
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learning and networks
This brief essay, addressing concepts of learning within networks, appearing in acoustic.space #3 (2000 ISSN 1407-2858) is a follow-up to the introduction of the neoscenes occupation project that...
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Nordic Nazi recollections
Hitler’s worldview included copious referencing of Nordic creation mythologies (thus his love of Wagner!), and as a consequence of this there developed strong pro-Nazi movements leading up to,...
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the human use of human beings …
Memory says I could not understand the meaning of this book in the first times I picked it up, browsing through my father’s library, looking for something to take back to the cool basement rec room to...
View ArticleAZImUTH
A few notes on the Azimuth: Degrees of Perception project initiated with Bill Abranowicz long on thirty years ago. Bill and I had just met at Parsons School of Design where Ben Fernandez set me up to...
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