The Changing Laws of Physics

“If the fine-structure constant really does vary through space, it may provide a way of studying the elusive “higher dimensions” that many theories of reality predict, but which are beyond the reach of particle accelerators on Earth. In these theories, the constants observed in the three-dimensional world are reflections of what happens in higher dimensions. It is natural in these theories for such constants to change their values as the universe expands and evolves” The Economist. Aug. 2010 reporting on research by Julian A. King et al.

“…we must elaborate a concept of the contingency of laws that is fundamentally distinct from the concept of chance.” Meillassoux (After Finitude. 2008. p.100)



abstract, academia, physical

INGENSTANS – Talan Memmott



abstract, academia, adversary, aesthetics, digital poetics, popo, video




abstract, poetry, scholars

Zeitguised

Zeitguised.com

“Kontaktschmelze (contact fusion) is the first work using our concept of the ‘boolean camera’. To make use of 3d cg space in a uniquely digital way, space is not cut by a projection of a plane onto a 2d screen anymore: instead, we ‘look’ through the cutting shape of a 3d object to realise the shape of another.
It also employs a remix concept that could be called ‘database modeling’: no modeling has been done, all 3d objects have been downloaded from free resources on the web.”



3D, abstract, art, branding, digital poetics, synaesthesia

Sachiko Kodama

Protrude, Flow (2001) (Detail), in collaboration with Minako Takeno



abstract, art, installation, magnet, sculpture

Leaf Nail Magnet



3D, abstract, animation, jhave, magnet

Caleb Charland

“Wonder is a state of mind somewhere between knowledge and uncertainty.”



abstract, light, magnet, photography, play

Nick van Woert



Eclipse 8
Plaster bust and plastic
70×53x17 cm



3D, abstract, materiality, sculpture

Nicholas Felton | Feltron Annual Report


“Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience.”



abstract, infoViz, memory, writing

Brad Todd

“auto suggestion is a screen based, real-time visualization of the processing of a database of paintings. The work incorporates the full text of Baudelaire’s one surviving notebook “Journaux Intimes”1, 65 hi-resolution scans of paintings that I made during the decade 1989-1999 (at which point I stopped making paintings) …The system takes as its seed Baudelaires prose and runs it through text analysis in turn determining the selection of various areas of color and shape, then recombines them in infinite variations and iterations.”



abstract, algorithm, art, digital poetics, infoViz

Arno Rafael Minkkinen



abstract, body, nature, photographer, portrait

Jim Lambie


“You put a record on, and it’s like all the edges disappear. You’re in a psychological space. You don’t sit there thinking about the music, you’re listening to the music. You’re inside that space that the music’s making for you.” Jim Lambie @ SMFA, Boston



abstract, anomalies, art

Ignacio Uriarte


Papierballfall. 2008. HD video (2’00 loop)



abstract, aesthetics, art, video

Aakash Nihalani





3D, abstract, graffiti, motion graphics, writing

Robbie Cooper


gamer-face film using errol morris’ interrotron



abstract, art, books, game, video

ben fry



3D, abstract, infoViz, processing, typography

Lindisfarne

8th Century Illuminated Manuscript



abstract, topology, typography

Wolfram | Alpha



abstract, aging, epistemology, web 2.0

Jonathon Puckey



abstract, installation, typography

Strange Restraint


AKA. “STRANGE RESTRAINT” : video portion of a dance performance based on Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”.



abstract, aesthetics, ambient, video, violence

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