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Let’s say, for arguments sake, that everything is image. The universe, history, you, me, grass, god, joy, the smell of chips etc. Any of these images can be broken down into data and transmitted as information. A large part of how these images are organised is to do with power, specifically, these days, perpetuating a…

People are not Google’s “customers” or even Google’s “users”, but its feudal livestock

I came across Israeli artist Absalon in Pier Vittorio Aurelli’s Less is Enough – On Architecture and Ascetism – the idea of the artist building a space that allows for exploring ‘out there’ with an corresponding emphasis on taking care of what is ‘in here’ is an exciting one… Short article HERE

I’m going into hiding. No more Facebook, no more instagram, no more twitter. I’m moving to an on-line location where I can be alone with my words, my images, my videos and feel the presence of the network. I have server space and a incomprehensible 63 digit URL I will never remember so is only…

https://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/

To be distracted means to be diverted from a consensually agreed path, you should be doing a. but you are distracted and end up doing b. Etymologically, distract is made up of ‘dis’ with it’s roots in an opposite, or a separation, and ‘tract’ a strip of land, a length of time, or a short…

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the-art-of-distraction/

So I’m at the next stage – actually installing Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, all those indispensable tools of the 21st century artist. This progress bar is open and honest, it just told me I had 76 minutes remaining which worried me slightly as my tea will be done before that, so there’s no way I can…