white male christian art

I went to see the bill viola at Redfern last night. Sadly I really enjoyed it, despite the christianity, the huge production values and the white male privilege that enables the work and sidesteps critique. I met him last year briefly and went to a public lecture in San Jose, California, USA. I felt jealous about [...]

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trope in SL

Trash Maggs, Auteur Writer and Artaud Artaud (Me)  on SL in the space I’m developing. The project is called trope. and is to be a repositioning of text in virtual environments. The website can be found here: trope.
It will be launched at the Sydney Writers festival in May during our new media writing panel. Details here.
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creative 20/20 summit? maybe 10/20….good work keep going..

well I feel I need to blog this. after the 20 20 summit in canberra with mr rudd.
here is a link to “Towards a creative Australia: the future of the arts, film and design” and the background briefing paper.
It is good to know that: “We value our artists, film-makers, designers, authors, playwrights and performers because [...]

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not rocket science…

but useful nonetheless…
There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990   

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ποίησις – poesis

greek from ποιέω
 ”to make”, Latin poesis (see also -poiesis).

fabrication, creation, production,
poetry, poetic composition
magical procedure

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FLOw

I have been reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalya’s book on flow for a bit now. It is a bit dry and awkward in that way academic writing that tries to be popularist can be, not flow-like at all…
Anyway that aside, his work definately describes the art making experience at length, using a range of examples of other [...]

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bringing up stuff

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a dérive task for the weekend..

Now I’ve been banging on about the derive for a bit now, so i think it is time for a little action.
I would like to suggest a derive for all my lovely readers (there are probably 5 of you…)
For your derive, drop your usual motives for movement and action and let yourself be drawn by [...]

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back to the dérive

Debord’s The Naked City (1957), as a map of the dérive, is said to bring out those differences that are suppressed by the abstract and homogeneous descriptions of the ‘voyeur’, by fragmenting and re-connecting the Plan de Paris. In the dérive, the city is experienced as a cluster of events, never fully seen and always contingent: ”there are spaces where experiences [...]

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lost in translation

It will be an interesting Olympricks…..
Let’s hope China can get the message about Tibet, I hope kev’s chinese is better than these chinese engrish toilet signs. i have no hope in hell of reading chinese though….

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the graveyard

I have been following the online art of Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn for many years, probably since the mid 90s. Auriea does incredibly beautiful work, especially her entropy8 site and associated projects. There is an archive here.
She has just released a new “game”, more like an exploratory space/ painting than an actual game. There is no explicit [...]

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detritus worms

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table tapping

 as a table tapper from way back… i should want one…though i don’t.  it would be counter to the fun and the thrill of exploring an untampered surface and accompanying cutlery, glasses and the odd plate…

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