theory fragment

November 30, 2009 (11:26 PM EST)

The accumulation and preservation of information has been a fundamental condition of human society throughout its entire history; to a lesser or greater extent, this history is coincident with the preservation, propagation and presentation of specific information sets and the paradigm-technologies they enable—“culture” and “society” being simultaneously the vehicles and contaners for these specific information sets, described by the horizons they produce. Information differentials scale between the microlevel of the individual within a society in competition with other members for status, wealth, authority to groups within societies, to different paradigms jostling for dominance. The aggregate actions of each level of this construct depend on the indivdiual choices and actions of specific members whose cumulative impacts emerge at with variable coherence at different levels of organization. Because success depends specifically on both access to relevant information, and the more specific ability to apply and employ it, the organization as a whole has an in-built bias towards the accumulation and concentration of information maximally: the baseline condition for success within such structures historically has been one determined by an information differential: those lying at the greater end of the gradient tend towards success and dominance, with those falling at the lesser end tend to fail, excluding such mediating factors as already established positions and authorities that tend to replicate themselves.

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November 14, 2009 (10:47 AM EST)

Lately it seems like we, collectively, are stuck in the past, the 1980s to be accurate. I don't know what happened to the present (nevermind about the future, that was always already an imaginary)? I increasingly get the feeling that we aren't going to be getting anything of or from the present for a while at least. Instead, we have this strange obsession with revisiting the past artifacts of our culture and redoing/remaking/recreating them at a higher resolution and with more detail, but without anything that we haven't already seen.

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September 24, 2009 (09:32 AM EDT)

The State of Information is an expansion of some of the ideas developed in my earlier work on the idea of the aura in digital art. Published on CTheory.

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June 17, 2009 (07:58 AM EDT)

Two Women and a Nightengale is my homage and subversion of Max Ernst and Surrealism generally. I've decided to give away the first chapter as a free download to anyone who wants it.

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May 21, 2009 (05:50 AM EDT)

The Mini DV 80s is a remarkably small video camera that is voice activated, and designed for unobtrusive use--you clip it on.

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May 13, 2009 (06:49 AM EDT)

This topic is something I've been watching for a while now. Good to have a summary of all the various services in one place. This is recommended reading.

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May 9, 2009 (09:23 AM EDT)

I have posted a .flv video on my site of my new video, An Unexploded Dream, done in collaboration with The Poison Arrows.

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April 30, 2009 (10:12 AM EDT)

I like obsolete software. It's cheap, readily available, and usually has already had the bugs worked out, so all you need are the appropriate updates and patches to make it work perfectly. But there's anoother, more important reason:

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April 15, 2009 (08:29 AM EDT)

I'm doing an essay for this show.

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April 14, 2009 (09:40 PM EDT)

The Poison Arrows have asked me to do a second video from their new ablum. The first one I did, Casual Wave began as a live score for the January section of my film year; the new video will also be a piece that started as part of that live score, this time for the December section. I don't entirely know what I'm going to do for it, but I am going to be posting weekly updates on how it's developing.

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