ideas

thresholds, boundaries, transformations, liminal

Google Searches for Egypt

New Idea

Cat Map

No Internet in Egypt

Check out this post.

This is crazy huge - not just shutting off the internet but the ridiculous situation that happening there and how people can't communicate about it.

Below is my screen capture of trying to look at the American University of Cairo's site:

drafting blog posts

" I may polish off a few half- or mostly-written posts from my drafts folder."

Wow, I've never thought of drafting posts then re-editing them before.  This is exciting, I'm going to do this too.

On writing...

Some sound advice:

"two reasons that you will write more if you write more. The first is professional and institutional. It is imperative to get your stuff out there in some form or another. You might have the most brilliant ideas in human history since Aristotle, but if no one knows who you are nothing will come your way. By contrast, once you begin to get stuff out there writing opportunities snowball. Suddenly people are asking you for pieces here and there, for contributions to their journals and conferences, and so on. Writing issues more writing."

from http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/advice-on-writing/

In Praise of Copying

This looks interesting.


In Praise of Copying, by Marcus Boon.

"The book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing how integral copying is to being human, we cannot understand ourselves or the world we live in."

http://inpraiseofcopying.wordpress.com/

Flat Ontology

A cool post on flat ontology.

"Flat ontology signifies an ontology in which there is only one ontological “type”: individuals...a flat ontology is an ontology that refuses to undermine or overmine objects." - Levi R. Bryant

Electronic Data Free: Statement of Intent V.2

Electronic Data Free began as an experiment in voluntarily limiting my use of digital media, which was my medium of choice. I attempted to restrict myself from electronic data
altogether. In turn, my artist practice came to rely on my physical interactions with objects, while building upon previous themes in my work related to perception and truth.

The texture rubbings you see here allow me to unite both my mind and my body. By doing the rubbings, I experience these objects physically and perceptually. No longer am I a mere observer of things but I must experience, in my body, how objects exist. In 1000 Pennies where I perform rubbings of one-thousand pennies in a book, I can feel the resulting object
in my body after this performance since my arms, wrists, and shoulders are sore. By
interacting with an object in this way, it becomes more than something I am touching.
The object comes to be something that I feel within my body, an experience I was largely unaware of until this investigation.

Hence, this collection of videos and artist books explores the interconnectivity between objects, mind, and body.

Solo Exhibition: Electronic Data Free

What I think I'm doing

With my new work, a mish-mash of artist books, frottage, analog processes, texture transfers, video documentation that becomes the artwork, reading literary theory, reading blogs, organic reproductions, investigating scale, electronic data free.

All good artists play critical games. I mean that we use cultural & social expectations to frame something (a condition, an idea, an object) slightly (or maybe a lot) out of context. The reward for this is to experience a unique condition that one wouldn't encounter otherwise.

What game am I playing?

I don't know yet. Something to do with climaxes, limited transfers, completion, the idea of textures, embodying an object, and memory of tactility.

Random Access

Book are random access - Ian Bogost

A present for me...

My next big purchase will be a cellphone that will let me browse the internet (quickly and efficiently) :).

Wood and Metal

Field in B & W

New Work: Artist Books, Frottage

Artist Books: Objects

Met with bookbinder Reg Beatty today and chatted about some fantastic ideas re: objects. Thus, I am super inspired to post to my blog again.

Some things to keep in mind and look up:

Object-Oriented Ontology
Speculative Realism
HYPER OBJECTS

Blogs to check out:
http://www.bogost.com/
http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/

For future reference:

Always relate things to the bigger picture.

object fetish

function + distribution + fetishization

Transforming an object/idea through widespread distribution requires a level of fetishization.

Fetish replaces authenticity.

Next Project:

Antagonism, auras. Tangible/intangible?

Keep it simple with presence.