Saturday 3 May, 2008 'A quantum poem is a species of epiwriting of diffuse borders that opens new ways of exploration, perception and interaction among the author, the object and the reader upon creating a fictional space in which the probability permits as in a play of mirrors to complete what does not see in the representation.' Link
Friday 2 May, 2008 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W76HnJ6Kbx8&hl=en] The inimitable John Sparrow.
Friday 2 May, 2008 I'm sure I posted about this before but a search reveals zoot. Here it is again. 'This is a web version of Aspen, a multimedia magazine of the arts published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Each issue came in a customized box filled with booklets, phonograph recordings, posters, postcards — one issue even included a spool of Super-8 movie film. It's all here.' Link P.S. Anyone know any of them good sites that help with the reading on screen thingy? Interested in the retinal absorption of LCD canvasses.
Thursday 1 May, 2008 'The Big Word Project has been set up by Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe, two Masters students from Northern Ireland, who are exploring what different words mean to different people. The project allows you to purchase a word from our list to represent your site. Your site will then represent this word in our list and when people click on it, they will be taken to your site. The project is aimed at changing definitions and creating a new tapestry of words, meaning altogether different things. We're selling words for $1 per letter. Find it, click it, buy it :-) For example, you may buy the word 'Donkey' for $6 and it will link to your site dedicated to donkeys. The word 'Donkey' will then be the gateway to your site and the definition will be changed. No longer will the word Donkey mean 'a woodworking apparatus consisting of a clamping frame and saw, used for cutting marquetry veneers', instead it will now be represented visually by 'Chris's Donkey Site'.' Currently attempting to purchase 'wring'. It's a round 5. Link
Wednesday 30 April, 2008 '"You guys are going to get shot," the soldier said. That I understood. And as I lay there for four, five, or maybe six hours in front of the hangar, I also understood the purpose of all of the get-up. The g loves [sic] weren't meant t o [sic] warm my hands, and the headphones and mask weren't there to protect my ears and face. They were there to ensure the soldiers' safety, so we couldn't bite, scratch, or spit at them. We couldn't cough any bacteria into their faces, spread any germs, or infect them with a disease. They didn't care whether we suffocated under the masks. I knew what awaited us: a first-class flight [sick]. They chained us together and herded us onto the plane. We were bound so tightly we couldn't move a millimeter. Again, I thought that they were taking us to an American military base in Turkey. What else was I supposed to think?' Link
Tuesday 29 April, 2008 'In old English law, eminent domain refers to the power of the state to take private property without the owner's consent. Since the mid-19th century it has been employed as part of large-scale development projects and urban renewal - controversial practices that can be extremely destructive for local communities. The policy is often implemented when there is a perceived obstruction blocking the progress of a particular project and powers of override must force its conclusion. In investigating this theme we call for artists to recast the concept of eminent domain in the context of creative work. Here it becomes similar to recourse - in the face of blockade, alternative and often radical tactics may be resorted to in order for an idea to move forward. At a point of critical mass existing systems begin to fail, invoking a form of negation and opening up a space of uncertainty. This uncertainty may force a radical reformulation of a work at a crucial moment of its incompletion and potential.' Link (caution: may be transient)
Monday 28 April, 2008 'Next time you are lost in an unfamiliar city, console yourself with the knowledge that the layout of its roads are probably much the same as in any other. French and US physicists have shown that the road networks in cities evolve driven by a simple universal mechanism despite significant cultural and historical differences. The resulting patterns are much like the veins of a leaf.' Link
Sunday 27 April, 2008 'How much of going on your nerve, knowing what fits and works, is unconscious and perhaps accidental and coincidental? Therefore what is worked and constructed is difficult to ascertain in art that eschews specific formal occasions. Can one poetic technicality inform another? How much of sound, image and thought pattern are interactive, one springing meaning into the other? Sound particles leading to further ideas and images. How do all these images, which seem unconnected, relate and form a mulitiplex? The skeletal Eiffel Tower’s girders somehow reflected / mirrored by the Manhattan skyline. Is it a coincidence that the double f in Dubuffet is repeated in Eiffel and that further f’s proliferate and that France and Eiffel are invoked through Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert Delaunay who painted the Eiffel Tower, time and time again. Reading notes that there is an abundance of final y’s.' Link
Saturday 26 April, 2008 'Well, as the burnished chariot of fate is wheeled-clamped by the traffic warden of eternity...' '...and so, as the Rock of Ages is cleft in twain by the karate chop of fate, I notice it has "Souvenir of Watford" written all the way through it...' '...and so, as the short-sighted rhino of time attempts to mount the VW Beetle of eternity, and the rubber glove of hope gets lost in the Aberdeen Angus of destiny...' '...and so, as the rare Bengal tiger of time meanders into the cross-hair sights of Prince Philip's fateful pump-action shot gun...' '...and so, as the red-red-robin of time goes bob-bob-bobbing under the snowplough of eternity, and the sage and onion stuffing mixture of fate is rammed up the eternally unfrozen turkey of damnation...' 'We've reached the moment that never fails to bring a lump to the eye and a tear to the throat...'
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