Parsing the Languages of the New Media
A critical examination of The Language of New Media.
Mnemapeirodic Topologicopoesis
General-purpose blog.
Interference for Television with Metaphysical Re-Runs (PDF, 2005-2008)
Description of new media object for video installation; needs a television, a DVD player, and a quiet corner someplace. The DVD plays video content continuously, although the overall sequence of imagery neither loops nor is it random. A philosophical study of the distinctions between randomness, arbitrariness, complexity, and order; a political examination of the contemporary family as something programmed; an art-theoretical exploration of the relationship between an artwork and the critical statement; a medium-specific analysis of the DVD; and an artistic study in texture and the appropriation of imagery.
On Texture and The Object
Essay considering various aspects of Classicism and Modernism as stylistic and philosophical approaches to art-making, rather than strictly as historical periods.