MachineMachine /stream - tagged with creation http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate http://e-flux.com/journal/view/233 The debate over artistic research, particularly its appeal to scientificity, often rests on defining one’s terms. Thus, an examination of some of the keywords deployed might be instructive, especially when their circulation is grounded on an imprecision inherent in language. The connotative meaning of a word, if I may be forgiven for stating the obvious, can diverge greatly from what are often contradictory origins, allowing ideology to reify itself on a lexical level. Let’s examine the word science itself. It derives both from the Latin, scientia, “to know”—but also from the Greek, scienzia, “to split, rend or cleave.” That art… ]]> Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:13:52 -0700 http://e-flux.com/journal/view/233 A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/a-guide-to-enjoying-and-making-your-own-gif-art You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site dump.fm from artist Ryder Ripps, whose community no doubt benefits from the artistic ties of its creator, yielding content that is more conceptual and refined than the aforementioned Tumblrs (and has even spawned exhibitions of its own). Then there’s the ambitious ANI GIF project from Daniel Rehn and Sarah Caluag, which presents monthly GIF exhibitions online and is working towards an Animated GIF Biennial (in the real world) slated… ]]> Thu, 19 May 2011 11:50:02 -0700 http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/a-guide-to-enjoying-and-making-your-own-gif-art Hate E-mails with Richard Dawkins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuowNcuGsc&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:05:49 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuowNcuGsc&feature=youtube_gdata On Seeing (an Imitation) http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/01/on-seeing-an-imitation.html

by Daniel Rourke

“Mimesis here is not the representation of one thing by another, the relation of resemblance or of identification between two beings, the reproduction of a product of nature by a product of art. It is not the relation of two products but of two productions. And of two freedoms... 'True' mimesis is between two producing subjects and not between two produced things.”

Jacques Derrida, Economimesis

Enlarged pupil (an eye with iritis)
As the day drew closer to its end so I strained…
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