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Aesthetics

Is The Universe Complete?

Is the universe complete? Does it contain all the information required to understand it? If it is discretely computable, what’s it’s shortest Godel string? Is consciousness such a string?

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Free Culture

Remix Reading

A Free Culture festival in Reading (in the UK).

Remix Reading

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Free Culture

Excellent Free Record Label

I wonder if I can take Stallmanian stance on Free Culture and only listen to, read, or watch something if it’s Free? Probably not yet.

Loca Records

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Sketchblog

1969 In Progress

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Projects

My Still/Life Drawing Course Got Cancelled :-(

Which is a shame, because it was great.
On the plus side, I don’t have to figure out how to draw teapots for now.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics Eclipses Ethics

But when an empire makes reality, what image is that reality made in?

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_10_01_archive.asp#109803212139081479

The reflections must be put back into the mirror.

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Projects

Remixing

Some of my earliest work was remixing images. I went round the studios at KIAD asking people if I could photograph their work, and made images by sampling the results.
Now it’s possible to search for Creative Commons licensed work by license and type, I can find more images to sample. I’m starting to get a remixing itch that I may have to scratch soon. 🙂

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Projects

New Old Work

Checking old disks I’ve found images from “The Order Of Things” (squares), the PostScript Virii, and various minor Illustrator projects. I’ll add those to the art section of the site as I can convert them and, in the case of the generative work, find the source code if possible.

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Generative Art

Do You Have To Be Able To Program?

http://www.mteww.com/mtaaRR/news/twhid/programming_and_digital_art.html

Oh, and the answer is yes… 🙂

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Projects

1969

The follow up to 1968 is of course titled “1969”. See the sketches at my sketchblog, where they’re still titled “1968”. This is the source material of 1968 increasingly distorted, selectively presented and divorced from reality. So its a continuation of the allegory.
I’m working on the images in my old copy of Illustrator 6 (!) in Classic because I just can’t get used to working in Inkscape and I can’t afford Illustrator CS. 🙁 Using familiar tools is having a positive effect this time. 🙂 I just wish I could find my copy of Letraset Envelopes. :-/