Sensation and Forces "Not to reproduce what we can already see, but to make visible what we cannot" (Paul Klee) The task of art, in all its forms, is to capture forces. Deleuze and Guattari say that this, ultimately, is what makes art abstract - the "summoning" and making visible of otherwise imperceptible forces (Deleuze...

The Elements and Movements in Bacon's Paintings "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" (Sir Francis Bacon) Deleuze distinguishes 3 pictorial elements in Bacon's paintings, which together constitute a highly precise system - the field that is the spatializing material structure, the...

Painting, Its Ways and Faces "The adventure of painting is that it is the eye alone that can attend to material existence or material presence [...]" (39). Deleuze relates to two definitions of painting - one by line and color, which is visual, and the other by trait and color-patch, which is manual. He then proceeds to...

A Short Introduction "If you don’t admire something, if you don’t love it, you have no reason to write a word about it". (Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues, 144; in O'Sullivan, 5) Though it may not have been recognized as such at the time of its publication, today, The Logic of Sensation has come to be recognized as one of...

"At the centre of my ironic faith, my blasphemy, is the image of the cyborg. (...)A cyborg...

Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli 8 April to 19 September 2010 Main Galleries CCA...

Jukebots. A graphic novel of mine, featuring a mechanized band of robot jazz musicians. Not being...

It was the silence of her thoughts that awakened him He looked at her beautiful dolphin like shape; her legs folded within the larger transmutation she had undergone yesterday, her turquoise bluish tint reflected by the morning light. She needed no cover, her self-regulating nanobots thermostat taking care of her comfort zone temperature....

“To think what thought is not prepared to think is that which alone deserves the name of...

Background: This is a paper I wrote in freshman year of college for a comparative literature...

lightness and darkness when the mind is asleep, but in dream, without the eyes to distract,...

A New Direction In AI Research Monica Anderson proposes adding a new target to ongoing AI...

Like the last year, at Spanish Mobile Adobe User Group enjoys celebrating the Mobile World Congress...

The anomaly had seized the sensor status. “You have exactly 15 minutes to comply or...

The Holy Evolution Image: The Tree of Intoxication "Gonds make liquor from the...

Junto & beyond - further generations and explanations coming soon. also find full image...

This huge monument of Stonehengian ambitions was erected in 1980 [the year I was born] in...

Fail Safe How secure must we be to take risks? Does anonymity play a big role in how you...

Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or...

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of...

Hi, i'm interested in auditioning for the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band. Does Anyone know their email? Please let me know, Thanks! Dave

Lyrics, say something like: 'With each breath, We fall into that love. Let's not struggle, When...

This video took me 6 hours to squeeze over Comcast DSL, only 60M.

Encoding and decoding appear in contemporary context as a fundamental feature of technology, in our...

We are never as free as we once were at the moment of our birth. We enter this world with no...

. . . this must be what it feels / looks like. This must be what it is. Just. WOW. Amazing work...

This is just a little funny post, as a result of the fact that I'm sick and have to stay home. So I came across cleverbot and had a little fun with it. You should too if you're bored or just extremely lonely. Here's the conversation: User: Hi. Cleverbot: Hi. User: How are you today? Cleverbot: Awesome and you. User: I'm...

“Who wants to write this up?” Skullective asked the others who remained mingling at the...

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and...

In order for anything to be infinite, it would have to eventually exist in every incarnation of...

“But if we’re no good at cleaning up the shit we’ve sowed, if we’re incapable of taking...

Over the past few months, we've been discussing the various skills needed for effectively operating in a world characterized by information and accelerating change, and I've been assembling these ideas into a framework for a new thought architecture. This post will be the first in a 12 part series, and draws its influences from the fields of...

Follow-up to: Knowing beyond science and mathematics? I think I have to clarify why I mentioned mathematics in my recent post -- Knowing beyond science and mathematics? -- as a way of knowing in addition to science and separated from other logical systems. First of all, I'm only at the beginning of my long journey towards a decent...

Hard to simulate, but easy to amplify, my experience of consciousness, is interactions, of an infinite number of abstractions. The universe is the set of all permutation, and combination of abstract information. I am math. Derive me, and if I could derive you too, we would have a strange-loop confusing the future you. But what of the...

Is Spacecollective actually [what it claims to be (it's not clear what I mean here (probably...

silverpower: Is humanity even worth saving? starglider: As opposed to what? silverpower: ...hmm. -- #sl4 If you ever asked yourself if you are just a waste of space the simple truth is NO. First of all, there is enough space for everyone. Furthermore, there isn’t always a third option, sometimes not even a second one....

The above jpegs are an excerpt from my design project on exploring this intuitive habit of...

3V: “ there is something I do not understand about you humans NotMArie.. NotMarie: “what now? 3V: “its about your problem solving capability.. NotMarie:” o! We are very good at solving problems.. Well sometimes we are, sometimes we simply have to wait until the solution presents itself.. 3V:” no, no, it is not about that,...

I've released a new series of works, influenced/inspired by a life-long immersion in sci-fi culture...

Monica Anderson discusses the ongoing paradigm shift - the "Holistic Shift" - which...