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Some kind of sensible observation, which picks up on the concerns of the multitude, plus the manifest needs of the individual, and transforms, as though a refulgent phenomenon, the ancient scope of divine deeds, which are scarcely to be acknowledged, … Continue reading →

In Book X of The Republic, Plato describes Socrates’ rejection of mimesis. Socrates employs the example of a bed. There is, in his view, the original ideal bed created by God. Then there is any particular actual bed created by … Continue reading →

The DADA readymade removes an everyday object – say a bucket – from its ordinary context and exhibits it as art. Initially, this works less to claim the bucket for art – to strip away its everyday ‘bucketness’ and make … Continue reading →

I draw on the technical metaphor of multiplexing to explain an aspect of my current practice (and perhaps a broader tendency within contemporary art) because it responds to the notion of interference. Instead of disrupting and corrupting the signal (from … Continue reading →

Back up Mt Nebo in light rain to the new gravel-asphalt road. Then through the gate and down to the small clearing with its chainsawed stumps and small piles of sawdust. On the way back, an unexpected sunset – lighting … Continue reading →

Short morning walk.

Up the hill to the same spot – a small clearing before the narrow lantana track. Apparently nothing much to see. Grey sky, a few clouds, a tinge of red in a saddle near Mt Keira. But I hang around … Continue reading →

In November last year I wrote of an unfinished walk. My aim was to head up Mt Nebo, around to Mt Keira and then back down. Unfortunately the track had become overgrown in the jungle section beneath the old coal … Continue reading →

Mt Nebo – MtKeira circuit: Water tower: six mins Mt Nebo top clearing: 14 mins Four ways gate: 19 mins Waterboard gate: 24 mins Rough trail start: 30 mins Steep drop: 40 mins Coal mine: 52 mins Robertson lookout: 58 … Continue reading →

Art does not describe an order of phenomena, but rather an associated characteristic or quality of phenomena. It does not take its place in a concrete taxonomy. There is nothing that is substantively (and exclusively) art or not art. Art … Continue reading →

Tuesday – early morning, moon.

Saturday – late afternoon.

Full circuit again: Water tower: six mins Mt Nebo top clearing: 14 mins Four ways gate: 18 mins Waterboard gate: 23 mins Rough trail start: 29 mins Steep drop: 39 mins Coal mine: 49 mins Robertson lookout: 54 mins Byarong … Continue reading →

My mind is like the autumn moon Shining clean and clear in the green pool. No, that’s not a good comparison. Tell me, how shall I explain?1 Han-shan (or Hanshan) was an early Chinese Buddhist poet writing during the T’ang … Continue reading →

Very careful. Something about flat ground does not suit me.

Guy Debord, in a very Platonic fashion, contrasts the realm of images (within the context of consumer capitalism) to the terrain of authentic experience. Baudriallard imagines he has taken an additional step with his conception of the simulacrum – no … Continue reading →

I distinguish walking from art, but not as things that are simply opposed. In all kinds of ways the two activities – the two discursive fields – intersect. They both offer the promise of freedom. They both enable a space … Continue reading →

What is the relation between image and signal? Are the image and signal evident at once, or does the recognition of one entail a shift in attention away from the other? Traditionally, the mimetic image is associated with a space … Continue reading →

Let’s try again. At one level an image can be regarded as a type of signal. This is in terms of conceiving the signal in the general sense of something that behaves like a sign – that works to communicate … Continue reading →

Very short, modest run around the oval. Large flock of easily disturbed egrets.

Multiplexing, the process of combining multiple component signals within a single overall signal, depends upon a more fundamental feature of electronic signal processing, modulation. Modulation involves varying one or more properties of a carrier signal via a modulating signal. Aspects … Continue reading →

At the end of his 1959 film, On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time, Guy Debord describes the limit that his film has reached, which takes shape as the limit of film as … Continue reading →

The notion of interference – art as a mode interference – is associated with the conventional avant-garde self-image of critical subversion. The latter envisages that there is something like an unreflective signal – cast in terms of notions of power, … Continue reading →

So interference can appear as a mode of resistance, a means of integrally disrupting and undermining some larger signal flow. This is, as I say, its heroic guise. But interference can also be regarded in less heroic terms – as, … Continue reading →

The last couple of days have been dark and wet.