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Monthly Archives: March 2006
Neo (Process proof)
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This image was composed with 28 photographs of the model Neo, each taken from a slightly different angle. These were digitally superimposed on each other. I digitally rotated and re-aligned them using the dots I placed around Neo’s eye. The average image was then computed from this and some color manipulation manually applied to the entire image.
The idea behind this series has to do with exploring ways to show the blurring of some of the boundaries that we often take for granted. The blurring of the boundaries between individual and their environment, between object and subject, between image and reality, fantasy and science. The aspect of this ‘methodology’ that gives me the greatest satisfaction as artist is that the ‘painterly’ effect is not something artificially added to the image, nor a result of the digital medium, but rather literally the product of the recording of the ‘scene’.
This image eventually produced two sets of high-quality hi-resolution Lambda (ISO9002 certified) prints between A2 and A1 in size, in limited editions of 5 prints per set, signed and numbered. These are priced at (ZA)R1000 (about US$ 140), depending on shipping costs and such.
(click the image to see a slightly higher res version)
Letitia
The democratic dilemma
The democratic dilemma as found in The New American Myth – what if the most popular idea isn’t actually such a good idea, or all that popular in reality? People governing government governing the people’s governing of the government that is in fact governing them. Democratic politics is inherently government by tautology.
What we need is something like ‘sophisticracy’, government by un-biased state of the arts – all arts. The real challenge I think is in finding how to navigate our way towards a balance of open progress and wellness without the hierarchies that are required (and they are required I think, to facilitate and implement intelligent co-habitation of the planet) becoming exclusively self serving in stead of serving the state of the world.
Democracy as we see it today will shred itself – and just maybe we will see that the planet governs the planet, best for us if we work for this as much as we can, evolution can be Stern.
Banking and Advertising Friction
This is the information market, not the information age.
FNB‘s use of ATMs as a communication interface with their customers has won the ATM Global Industry Awards‘s Software category, (Beats me why I get emailed a press release, oh, and their website is UGLY) so well done to them, and shame on Standarbank who to the best of my knowledge, still have not fixed the critical flaw in their ATM system. The one in which they have their machines spit out the cash before returning your card. Yes one should be aware, alert etc. when dealing with cash – especially in this town, but in this town many of us are on the run(multiple interpretation welcome). You go to the machine to get money, you get your money – and at what happens at that point in what design psychology gurus call ‘closure’. This is akin perhaps to a little banner being deployed somewhere in the convoluted over-worked under-appreciated recesses of your mind that reads ‘Mission Accomplished!’ – yea we’ve all heard that before.
Of course advertising goes everywhere, so it was just a matter of time. But if you have to advertise try and limit the friction in the process, so rather than paying some telemarketing company to phone me right when I’m desperately hacking my way through the trial and tribulations of a frustrating day – to inform me of some new offer – like Nedbank to whom I used to be quite loyal – has done on a few occasions, rather put it where i expect to see it. A little politeness goes a long long way in relationships, especially commercial relationships, disrespect customers at your peril.
Compressionist Portrait : Leanne
(with correction fluid dots)
Compressionist Portrait : Leanne
Exploring some ideas around a compressionist reinterpretation of motion capture technique a la portraiture – possibly looking for emergent essence of the perceivable. 
I recall a lecture back in my university days where in a lecturer was going on about the art historic process of the flattening of representational depth and perspective. (This portrait could be seen as a kind of planar two-point perspective of Leanne’s face in my study:)
I think there must be wonderfully many ways to skin a hologram.
Search Engine Compressionism : Search Our Family Photos
As opposed to say, Flat Bed Compressionism…
My latest effort of using search engines, in this case ‘search’ via Metacrawler as a kind of geeky palet-knife.
billboards into bookbags, Advertising news (here @ 404.px w)
cllick to enlarge.thepeopleyes
Net Art : Without Animals?
After meeting Nathaniel Stern in person today (great!) and engaging in some of his very stimulating ‘collaborative overlap’, I felt inspired enough to take a look at the theme of ‘art’ through the relatively complicated stylistic cum procedural aesthetic that I am developing. The image along side is a compressed 354 x 354 pixel version of the actual work, which in its completeness measures 7087 x 7087 pixels, that translates to 600 x 600 mm at 300 dots per inch (dpi).