RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2
I’ve released a single. Yes me, a music single. It’s 79p / 99c on iTunes: RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2 RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2 by therourke But is it noise-art or just digital sinister?
Thoughts on art practice PhDs
“Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.” – Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition What are artists to gain from taking a PhD? How does the mantle of ‘artistic research’ […]
“EveryThing on the Face of the Earth”
This reflection on John Carpenter’s The Thing, is an update to a piece I wrote for 3quarksdaily some time ago: – And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature’s Errors I re-visit the subject here with the intention of binding together two other posts of mine: – The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF, GIF, GIF) – Digital Autonomy: […]
Digital Autonomy
This essay was originally written as a response to a symposium held at Goldsmiths, Uni of London, in June 2011, entitled: New Notes on Sculpture “Is an ephemeral image, a moment in a streaming video, a thing? Or if the image is frozen as a still, is it now a thing? Is a dream, a […]
The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)
UPDATE: Published in issue 3.1 of Dandelion Journal, on ‘Brevity’ In two short essays – written in 1933 – Walter Benjamin argues that primitive language emerged in magical correspondence with the world. The faculty we all exhibit in childhood play, to impersonate and imitate people and things loses its determining power as language gradually takes over […]
Headless Research
This is an extract from a collaborative text I worked on, published in the June 2011 issue of Texte Zur Kunst : The animal of research, being nourished from its root, springs up from the dirt of discourse, the direction of growth pandering to a supposed head. “Humans see the world through language, but do not […]
Overlapping Magisteria
Rare as my blog posts have become, the desire to write – perhaps, the need to write – never wavers. With this in mind I plan to begin using my blog as it was intended: a space for (PhD) research to spill into. What follows then is a mixture of notes, mini-essays and un-finished sections […]
