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I am tempted to write, repetition is the greatest luxury. To imagine pure repetition, the prospect, for instance, that a “for loop” offers in computer programming, is to render time in the image of space; as though time could be … Continue reading →

I have not written anything for a month. Is this bad? Should I always be writing? Perhaps. To write regularly maintains some semblance of robust, creative productivity. But this is not how I work. Not when it is precisely the … Continue reading →

Just finished Claire Bishop’s Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012)1 Great book, very clearly written and based upon a huge amount of research. Provides a very useful survey of participatory art practices across various regions (chiefly … Continue reading →

In suggesting a definition of militant art, Alain Badiou proposes: “[a] militant vision of artistic creation is when an art – a work of art – is a part of something which is not reducible to an artistic determination.”1 Badiou’s … Continue reading →

Despite his antagonism to the notion of unitary being, there is one thing that links Badiou to Parmenides: a suspicion of common opinion, of truth in the guise of the already known – the status-quo. The only fidelity that matters … Continue reading →

Contemplating giving up code, formal computer programming; the work of elaborating systems that quickly become debilitating complex. Most of the work is in the elaboration of potential – potential that often passes unrealised in terms of any genuine need. Perhaps … Continue reading →

Some rapidly sketched distinctions between computer programming code and the coded systems of conceptualism. None of this will make much sense without reading some of the earlier posts below. Expressive rigidity/flexibility: I guess one could object that any use of … Continue reading →

What is there to say about the Sun? To circle around the Sun. To imagine that the Sun is distant – to know the Sun’s distance and proximity at once. What can I write about the Sun? What can I … Continue reading →

Of course it is not possible to look at the Sun directly. The source of light itself – generally, specifically and in every sense – can not itself become an object of view. It can only be regarded askance. So … Continue reading →

It is funny how so often I miss the shots that seem obvious later. Lugging a camera up Mt Keira, with every intention of remaining open to whatever comes along, things happen and I fail to recognise them. For the … Continue reading →

As much as I admire her work, it occurs to me that there is a fundamental contradiction within Claire Bishop’s conception of participatory art (2012)1. Bishop explicitly stresses that her focus is on forms of art that involve literal social … Continue reading →

If I a produce an artwork from activities such as walking and bouldering, then it takes characteristic shape either as an event or as a piece of documentation. If I’m expected to show something in a gallery space, then actual … Continue reading →

I was also thinking of: a hand-written bouldering diary one end of the gutter appearing neat and the other roughly torn a black gutter with shiny scratches it may also be twisted video of the shop where I buy the … Continue reading →

On the Problem of Positioning my Home Renovation Project as an Art Project I have been preparing a house for sale for the past few months – putting in a new kitchen, sanding and polishing the floors, replacing guttering, painting … Continue reading →

What does the notion of media suggest once a specifically technological conception of media is abandoned? Media is so often conceived in terms of the notion of extension (McLuhan), prosthesis or exoskeleton (Stiegler) that it becomes difficult to recognise more … Continue reading →

The process of writing these blog entries is a bit like improvising at the piano. In the case of the latter, I very often play similar stuff – the same old chord progressions, melodic sequences and bass patterns. And here, … Continue reading →

Looking back, I am reminded that my first blog post discussed my conception of media in terms of my undergraduate training in the field of communication and media studies. An additional observation here. Communication always seemed the more abstract and … Continue reading →

A set of eight posters: 50 walks sun in the forest theses on media bouldering diary on the problem of positioning my home renovation project as an art project global home hunt a week of email my cosmology Small essays … Continue reading →

Imagining an overall monograph length study reduced to a single wordy poster. This is very incomplete. Initial Postulates A ←→ B It would seem that we begin with two distinct entities, A and B, that somehow come into relation. A … Continue reading →

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