“You just can’t squeeze life into a package. It’s going to ooze out here and there. I think it’s terribly important to be aware of this. Not to be aware of it may lead to an overevaluation of rules and techniques, a tendency to distort and ignore life when it doesn’t fit nicely into your system or theory.”
William Bernbach, “Sometimes I play Things I never heard Myself” in Bierut, Michael. Looking closer 3: classic writings on graphic design. 1999. Page 150
Jan-Olaf Nygren. Cocktail. 2006, Silk screen on birch plywood, Ink. Dimensions variable“There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively ‘free’ decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.”
Nature Neuroscience 11, 543 – 545 (2008)
Book Art Backgrounders at Deeplinking
Robert The: “I kinda blew a fuse in my senior year—something very strange happened—and I lost my ability to read for a period of a month or two. This sharpened my interest regarding what was actually going on with the symbols that convey meaning on a concrete level.”
“The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites around the world. The archive contains more than 10 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second. “
binary search bees
coagulating craniums
Tired of bogus software patents? So are we! To combat these annoying and often dangerous legal weapons, EFF has launched the Patent Busting Project to take down some of worst offenders.
The inaugural issue of Inflexions tackles an endlessly generative question that is a once the thematic of the issue, and the raison d’être of the journal as a whole: “How is Research-Creation?”
“A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however, with Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary by N. Katherine Hayles, do we have the first systematic survey of the field and an analysis of its importance, breadth, and wide-ranging implications for literary study.”
“MEDIA DETERMINE OUR SITUATION” writes the German theorist Friedrich Kittler, imagining a world where human perception and being are replaced by archives, code, systems, and networks. This is not the stuff of science fiction—to be unleashed on us in some distant future—but rather the present. — Chris Salter
Passage Sets (1995)
