post-
notethe post- already happened and we're just trying to fulfill our baroque destinies
transparency
notea mirror held up to see the ghost inside.
incommensurability
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...it IS increasingly hard to live, hard to find hope in a world of
such deep and abiding incommensurability - the post-industrial,
capitalist, post-slavery West sloughs inexorably into post-human
algorithmic efficiency.
but i FIND hope where i can. i don't HAVE it. it isn't static. we
MAKE it. we SHARE it...
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notes Toward a post-Artist Eschatology
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• Nonconformity is being redefined as a mental illness.
• Apocalypse in the original sense meant a revelation (literally: an
uncovering,) not a grand, destructive cataclysm. Armageddon is the
cataclysm, apocalypse is the moment we know it is coming or
possible.
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plague years
noterather, the postApocalypse already happened and we are in the plague years, the crypt time, a place of decays and possibilities
crack-rend
VideoDiscourse or Dust
Text Adventure
When you are confronted with seeing yourself as an object you are in
"bad faith." Should this sadden you? What if the very thought gave
you joy instead? Sadness effervesces into joy.
In a professional setting you are no different than you are at home.
It is the costume that changes, the character you have to play has a
discrete set of lines, vocabularies, mannerisms specific to each
context.
crowmanteau
note
Control Systems:
built Objects w/embedded monitors to display video loops of longish
duration. translucent objects with lights inside.
Cromanteau.
Portmancrow.
sensors
measuring the humans in the room.
question of rigor
notethe Question of Rigor is always important, So...what is a rigorous system that can be produced through the organization of What's & Whom's social context? Art EMERGES when the conditions are conducive or something
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technological present
notepart of understanding the ethical implications of a technological present is to fully explore the technological and metaphoric limitations of various technological media.
extended glitch
notean extended glitch feels like despondency
manipulation is the only true articulation
Videoripe vagaries
note
a need for spontaneity - or perhaps
extemporaneity - to match a self actualized
"flow"
- or something
some & thing are ripe vagaries
and in the end...fireworks
Videoinadvertent pedagogies
noteconscious beings make art, yet assistants and consciousness can be crowdsourced using inadvertent pedagogies
Burn Outside the Window
Videosomething
notehow is some thing different than something?
emergence cartography
noteexperimentation surveys an emergence cartography
technological impulse
notethe technological impulse is a spiritual impulse. utopian dreams of mechanisms to achieve better futures, more refined realities. fixers in a materialist logic.
grays the edge
notea geiger counter grays the edge of the post- it gauges
truth and lies
notethis information we've conceived from the data immersion is real & irreal, truth and lies at once, iterating our possible futures.
well-crafted
notemaybe it's only about well-crafted documentation
editorializing
noteit is easy to create content. what if the responsibility rests on a jargon of editorializing?
intermodal
notecontainers of an intermodal sort
now
notefaster begets my obsession with now
emergence contexts
noterather, utopias died deaths back with the avant garde - we are organizers of emergence contexts
general need
noteartist demands a role - to the general need for entertainment through shock, spectacle or contemplation. desire for voluntary participation - a different economy? is a response, not a progressive wish.
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