MixedMedia

Love this idea of the ICE – I just might have to enter for the fun of it:Artists each make 13 collages (more or less), size not bigger than A4 (about 8″ X 10″ or 20cm X 26cm), and send them to me in New Zealand, to arrive by 20th March, 2009. One from each artist will be offered for sale at an exhibition here in New Plymouth, New Zealand with the artist setting the price. 30% commission taken. That selling exhibition will also be on the Net on the Virtual TART site, at http://virtual.tart.co.nz allowing the world-wide audience the chance to buy these collages. If unsold, that collage will rejoin the exchange. One is part of a month-long exhibition on the Virtual TART site during April and is also exhibited at the PukeAriki Museum in New Plymouth for at least a month. It will then travel to Samoa, to the MADD Gallery school of found-art assemblage and collage. It will also permanently be on exhibition on the outofsight.co.nz Internet site. The other 11 (or 12 if you didn’t sell) are shared out into parcels which are sent back to each contributing artist.So you send 13 of yours, get back 12 others (or 11 and money from your sale), and you become part of a public collection. NOTE: if you can’t finish as many as 13, or you want to send more, that’s fine. You’ll just get fewer (or more) back in your parcel. Learn more at: International Collage Exchange

Scrappy notes from a break-neck talk.Dealing with some concepts, linear time of Carnot (1846) forward – which intersects with music, eg harmonics and the end of time. Movement toward entropy. Question emerged, is it possible to move beyond the ruin of it all? NO! Let’s destroy it. So, with art and history, source of these ideas – middle Europe – disappears, along with it the old notions/nations. For the first time, time in art emerges – Dali, Picasso to Pollack. Destruction of the future.So, “Is there such a thing as ‘neutral’ time?”Getting quantum, where I fall apart, and things start to begin to behave strangely. No predictable rest state. Quantum underlays the universe, which turns out is chance. And the spiral, “if you look at it the other way, is a dead end.” Which brings us back to the end.Back to the ruin of the future (part 4?)…So, um, what we need is a better brain that stops repeating itself… Enter the light cone, how information crosses the universe, spin networks, and the idea that the universe is a hologram, an image… An image being information.Enter our information collectors and processors, our ever more powerful computers. These become rudimentary extensions of our, uh, inferior brains. So, here we are at the “new” 21st century, where content and moment rule. Information is everything – it is not a way of describing things, not knowledge, not simply a way of describing anything. Doesn’t want to be free, etc. It simply is. Hullo Kurzweil. So, enter the morning line project – take everything and fold it into a tetrahedron. combine them, wrap them up, turn them into a building. which isn’t a drawing but a drawing in space… add some music, and here we are.