My space dream is to explain all of this mystery and beauty; to uncover or cultivate that logical emptiness and discontinuity at the heart of sentience and existence. It is a simple dream…
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Uniform Individuality
Aspirations to difference and self-individuation through fashion, personal taste or behaviour are really just an evolution of tribal identity and group membership. Belonging to a group that does not belong to a group by virtue of adaptively-defined expressions and experiences of individuality is still to belong to a group.
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Encoding Culture
A logic of communication is stored in material artefacts and its expression and distributed embodiment in culture evolves over time.
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Ch’an Art: Disengaging the Ego
There is no one thing that art is or does and where we find this notion most powerfully and consequentially present is in those artefacts which successfully disassemble not only pictorial space, but through this – the perceiving mind itself.
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Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.
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The Dissociative Art of Leonardo Vargas
The art of Leonardo Vargas invokes the ghost of Francis Bacon’s disturbing vision but arguably finds itself arriving in an altogether different aesthetic solution to a representation of human identity and the psychological dissonance of individuation.
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Art without Boundaries
Where does art stop and the person begin? Is the frame of the canvas the boundary? Is the wall, the room, the building the boundary? Is the audience the definitive edge and boundary condition between the artefact and the meaning or interpretation?
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Art as Encoded Message
Information encoding for message transmission is a function expressed in (and as) visual culture and which evolves over time.
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A World at War with Itself
At the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, it is a good time to reflect upon where we are all going as a civilisation and what we might plausibly achieve to inhibit, interdict or halt the possibility of any similar global catastrophes from ever occurring again.
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Idioms of Absence
An epigenetic self-replication of the spiritual void, manifest as cultural entities in the contemporary Chinese art of Mi Qiaoming.
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Cosmic Self-Discovery and Barbie Dolls
In this painting of the “human Barbie doll”, Swiss artist Stefania Pinsone reflects the self-conscious self-replication of culture, self and art itself. The painting is titled “Valeria Lukyanova (white noise)”.
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A purpose for sadness…
There is a purpose for entropy, dissonance and the perceived affliction of psychological discomfort or unhappiness.
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