23 things - catch up time

I have been leaving a few comments here and there on other blogs.
I've signed up to library thing. my list is here. a bit short at the moment, but it could grow. my grandfather used to keep a record of all the books he read. he also used to make a couple of notes about the book; what it was about and what he thought of it. every now and then i've wondered about making a list of all the books i have at home. this could help. it's also a way of keeping track of books i've read. it's a matter of whether or not i want to spend the $10 or $25 US dollars (i presume) and if i felt like spending the time on it. at the moment it seems like an optional extra.

23 things - image generators

I haven’t been too enthused with the image generators.

I liked the idea of adding text to bob dylan’s subterranean homesick blues, but I couldn’t think of something witty or ironic to say. Maybe I should have said “check out the guy at the end of the clip, it’s allen ginsberg.”

I found a site where you can create your own mondrian ‘painting’.

However I’ve decided to go with a site that I came across a couple of years ago. This site helps you write your own artist statement, something that I need to do for one of my subjects at uni. Perhaps I could use the following.

Work of Post-Art in the Age of Artificial Reproduction

The flux creates, the chaos permeates. In the synaptic artifice, art objects are calculations of the iterations of the flux -- a flux that uses the chaos as a zeitgeist to deconstruct ideas, patterns, and emotions. With the synergy of the electronic environment, the flux is conceiving a point where it will be free from the chaos to realize immersions into the machinations of the delphic artifice. Work of Post-Art in the Age of Artificial Reproduction contains 10 minimal java engines (also refered to as "clipper chips") that enable the user to make material audio/visual compositions.

measuring chains, constructing realities
putting into place forms
a matrix of illusion and disillusion
a strange attracting force
so that a seduced reality will be able to spontaneously feed on it

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jo gillespie's work investigates the nuances of pixels through the use of slow motion and close-ups which emphasize the Artificial nature of digital media. gillespie explores abstract and kinetic scenery as motifs to describe the idea of infinite artifice. Using aesthetic loops, non-linear narratives, and allegorical images as patterns, gillespie creates meditative environments which suggest the expansion of space...

generate your own artist statement here

more wall piece progress

acrylic and projection on wall. 2007

More on the latest piece. The start of it is here. The colour is closer to the real thing in the image above, than in the earlier post. I've now traced around the projection with white pencil.