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• Twitter Links Borges: The Task of Art

  The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something…

  March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments

• Twitter Links Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?

  Instead of studying those magnificent galloping horses and bisons, researchers are investigating the symbols painted beside them. These signs are rarely mentioned in most…

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Link Depicting Relationships: The limits of language

  The heart of the english sentence (and equivalent sentential forms in other natural languages) lies in connecting ideas together and creating meaning. Like placing two portals from the recent hit…

  May 29 2011, 3:28pm | Comments

• Link Semiotics for Beginners: Codes

  In 1972 NASA sent into deep space an interstellar probe called Pioneer 10. It bore a golden plaque. The art historian Ernst Gombrich offers an insightful commentary on this: The…

  April 6 2010, 12:14pm | Comments

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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
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• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
• GLTI.CH Karaoke IV: Where Will You Sing?
• A Labyrinth (No Minotaur): Goldsmiths Postgraduate Degree Show 2011
• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
• RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2
• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
• “Everything on the Face of the Earth”