The work of Chuck close demonstrates an almost algorithmic perception of the visual image. One wonders if in fact he actually sees the world in this manner. There’s a quality to this work that creates a tension with human perception. We are seeing the overall sense of an image but the individual features of that image are in a way unrelated.
Last night at makerlab we were talking about dating sites a bit – commenting on how strange it was that they didn’t leverage social networks. For fun today I threw a fun idea together as a test of how to make dating more social. It isn’t terribly serious but perhaps amusing. I like to combine talk with praxis. Here it is:
We’ve posted an update to our Iraq Deaths agent at http://twitter.com/iraqdeaths . Here I’m going to journal and document the work involved in making this actually …
Anselm: Have you noticed how it is that the beasts in nature can in some circumstances appear to move as one? Socrates: Indeed. One has to look no further than to witness the swifts descend upon the Chapman chimney tower in Portland.
Hey all, So I have not been posting quite as much as I would like to these days because I have been spending all of my …
Musical Masterpiece :: Downtown Librarian plays Uptempo Soul and African Funk Friends – This weekend, if you find yourself near: Valentine’s Friday 1/23 Tiga Saturday 1/24 Drop in and …
Coming In From The Cold: Towards the Demarginalization of Creative Practice The Artistic Method: Self Reflexivity In Socially Activated Art Gary Wiseman at IGLOO Gallery December 2008 ‘The …
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