research

buried

The lines have begun to pile up around me. They extend in every possible direction. It is clear that the structure can not be broken down into one or two point linear perspective. There is no fixed position. Everything shifts and moves. I have been sinking through into the more dense regions of the system. I can no longer view anything that I might consider an edge or a boundary leading outward. My only hope is to move through this tightly constrained region into one that is more open, less densely organized, and begin to think again about what it has all been constructed for. This grid while grind me down.

boredom

I was sitting, resting, waiting for the explosion of energy to begin again. It was quiet, but only for a moment, inside my head. My eyes closed and everything disappeared for an instant.

They could not have been closed for more than a millisecond.

I opened my eyes and I could not recognize anything that was around me. I was somewhere else or someone else. Everything appeared differently than it had before. I closed my eyes once again.

They could not have been closed for more than a millisecond.

I was sitting, resting, waiting with my eyes open. It was quite and what I could see was the convergence or overlapping of the two environments I had previously found myself in. Each one shifted in and out of focus in relation to the other. I opened my eyes wider.

behind

I've fallen behind.
Although I intentionally detached myself from the grid over the course of a few days, I was unable to fully extricate myself. Now I have been drawn back in and have come to the realization that my work is far from over. I've missed deadlines and fallen back into confusion.

At one time I thought I understood something about the grid and why I was inside. Now I know for certain that I only had a glimpse of that truth. It is a truth that is always shifting away from its constraints. I am lost inside of the grid.

unplugged

At irregular intervals, it is beneficial to take the cords out.

present

talking about Grid:Current tomorrow
will hit on the recent discoveries I've made as to the purpose/nature of the grid I've been working within... this presentation will be an important test of the solidity of these constructs in my consciousness.

grid notation

WORKING
still working
I will rest for a few days
it is a grinding, this grid... wearing away at my sanity, my physical body... everything is worn away. I am left silently at an intersection of two shifting quadrants

Developing

The information I'm leaking here has been spotty at best, I know this.

It is out of my control. The grid has put me to work harder than ever. Consider that the minimum of news that I am allowed to announce here comes with severe costs. The more I communicate, the more I'm forced into ever deeper recesses of this grid. The deeper I am the more I have to dig just to get transmit on this signal. It is troubling and beautiful at the same time.

Visitor

Just had a studio visit from Nathaniel Stern who is a media artist originally from South Africa. It was a great conversation and I got a lot out of it even though it was very brief.

Upcoming Project in May

Here's a blog to an exhibition some of us are working on for later this spring. It's part of a grad seminar centered on Narrative Strategies. Here's a photo set for where the images will be displayed: Blatz Building, MKE and a link to the exhibition development blog: Make Your Own History.

RUN!!!!

Saw this and had to post it.
Don't know much about Gnarls, but this is a newer video
If you don't like the music, skip to about 02:05 and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about:

Notes From Grid

An interesting thing happens when you open a pdf in a writing environment that carries no bells and whistles. You end up with a screen full of code and pieces of text scattered here and there amongst the document which has now been made unrecognizable. When I do this, it prompts me to ask questions about the nature of the texts that I have become so used to reading.
It goes without saying that there are mountains of information and words written in relation to how we interact with electronic texts. I have not even gotten through foothills on my way to this mountain. However, it doesn't take much to realize that we can't think of words as anything less than text and text as nothing less than individual units of information strung together in a certain order. This is way of thinking is not new.
Image, whether in electronic or more physical form is also made of units of information organized into a specific order. It would seem then, that image and text could be exactly the same thing. When reduced to their digital representations, they do not appear that dissimilar. An image IS a text and a text creates an image. In a gridform, there should be no distinction between these two functions of information. Both are communications that are carefully organized and constructed.

postcardZ

Camouflage Text Documents for Image

Camouflage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about protective camouflage used to disguise people, animals, or military targets.

Camouflage, also known as cryptic coloration or concealing coloration, allows an otherwise visible organism or object to remain indiscernible from the surrounding environment. Examples include a tiger's stripes and the battledress of a modern soldier. Camouflage is a form of deception.

The word camouflage comes from the French term camoufler, Parisian slang meaning 'to disguise', which in turn is derived from Italian camuffare, of the same meaning. The alteration of the word may have been influenced by the existing word camouflet 'puff of smoke' (cf. smoke screen). In the First World War the British Navy used the term dazzle-painting (cf. dazzle camouflage.)[1] Often, people refer to camouflage as "Camo".

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