3/06/2011
Continuing the . . . series? Perhaps.
As stated in reply to a question, I’m creating an allegory of technology through apotheosis of architecture, although I would say my reason for doing so is somewhat more convoluted. I’ve placed the viewer in an unspecific utopia/dystopia future looking back at an unknown (archetype) monument of human creation, surrounded by its immediate opposite—untouched nature. Both in their own ways seem the cleaner element. It at once shows both the opposition of human and nature (without humankind) and their possible eventual coexistence.
Or at least that’s the idea.
19/05/2011
“This age thinks better of a gilded fool
than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school”
—Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, 1599
The very beginning of a series, I think.
14/05/2011
I’m beginning to play with found objects. The following is a piece of scrap metal found at Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea. The four photos were taken on the opposite side of the sea in Salton City.
My future work is going to be figuring out how to better integrate found objects and photography.
6/05/2011
This, apparently.
No idea why I shot it, just thought it would be fun. Good stock, I guess.
1/04/2011
Demo for a larger installation.
I am fascinated with the idea of entropy, and that order can be created from it.
Our very bodies, including the brain–that objective platform of our subjective minds, are created through an entropic process; DNA cannot hold enough information on its own.
Entropy is also one of very few processes that defines time in terms linear.
And of time, I am fascinated with the future.
I am mesmerized by the encroaching Singularity of humankind.
Where are we going? What comes next?
More importantly, what are we doing now to prepare for it?
In this body of work I have focused my sight on freedom.
People speak of this age as the Age of Information, but indeed I argue it is not.
It is the Age of the Singularity.
The true Information Age is coming.
When it arrives, information will be the new currency–in quite more literal terms than present.
And when information is currency, will you then feel comfortable with it being so easily stolen?
Time moves faster and faster, exponentially increasing.
The evolution of evolution has reached a climax.
No longer must art conform to ideals of archival and lasting nature.
No longer must art conform to staid conventions.
No longer must art conform to anything expected or anything that has come before.
I conform my art to the future, which is to say it conforms to nothing (and everything).
Art is now more ephemeral than ever, shifting paradigms at an ever increasing pace.
At the end of this show, the work will be destroyed.
If you wish to temporarily save it, feel free to photograph it.
It is the idea I transmit, not the physical form.
