I’m drafting v 2 of JPEG: The Quadruple Object and have been revisiting the concept of potentiality and objects, notably Levi Bryant’s debate with Graham Harman. This is the latest musing… if anyone can see any great glaring holes, mis-representations or even molten cores worth expanding… Levi Bryant, a strong advocate of objects as the …
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Small objects in the city
Natural and un-natural objects. Toy chairs probably manufactured in Taiwan. A sod of grass and a rose of England. Dirt. A miniature TV flown around the world to a doll’s house shop. Maybe a charity shop. Positioned and repositioned on a street. In a street. Connecting with an office block and a gutter. Privatised street …
Imag(in)ing 2012
Submitted a photo essay to a ‘real’ academic journal. They didn’t want it so, heh I’ll publish it in my own publication: Text here :: ‘2012’ is an event, a brand, a spectacle, a geographical space, a cultural and media practice, a political and economic assemblage. As “Big Build”, “London 2012” or “legacy”, ‘2012’ is …
A bit of new year carpentry: Ekaw Snagennif
As you may know, I’m engaging in a bit of my practice-research around object-oriented photography and publishing on/in/through Facebook. Using my favourite new camera (the screengrab facility on my phone), I’m ‘taking’ photos of the images in the Haystack, uploading them back into the space (where they JPEG-encoded as visible images). I’m (re)mixing these with …
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Not answers but… a response to Jussi’s OOQ
Jussi Parikka poses some interesting question about OOP. I’m fortunate enough to have Jussi as my PhD supervisor and so the poor guy has 70 thousand words of OOP musing to wade through over his Christmas break so maybe he’s getting in his objections early… So in that spirit, my thoughts about his questions. Firstly he says: …
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I formally object
Victor Burgin identifies two “pitfalls awaiting the art theorist with no grasp of semiology, ‘the temptation to treat the work of art as a purely formal construction’ [… and a] focus[..] on the internal life of the autonomous object”{%Burgin 1986@1} Burgin picks up on a powerful tradition of anti-formalism that arguably has a new relevance …