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Sep 04

“There are different sets of constraints, and, like we were
saying before, freedom always arises from constraint — it’s a creative
conversion of it, not some utopian escape from it. Wherever you are, there is
still potential, there are openings, and the openings are in the grey areas, in
the blur where you’re susceptible to affective contagion, or capable of
spreading it.” — Brian Massumi, Navigating Movements (2002)

Aug 26

“Underlying our approach to this subject is our conviction that “computer science” is not a science and that its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects. Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of “what is.” Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of “how to.” —

Structure and interpretation of computer programs / Harold Abelson 
and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman. — 2nd ed. 1996

It is a wonderful book. I have it at home. I rephrased the title in my mind to Structure and Interpretation of Thought Processes.

“‘Meaning’ then does not reside in the artwork but in its performance, its dissemination/ dispersal across multiple contexts, which continually reactivates (and subverts or destabilises) the work.
The idea of dissemination (…) provides a generative focus for a sustained enquiry into contemporary arts practices: what constitutes the artwork (as a dynamic process)? and how does the artwork provide meanings in relation to the contexts that it participates in and moves through? How can we generate, understand and curate artwork as a dynamic, fluid, event-based phenomenon?” — ‘Open Work — Postproduction — Dissemination’, Ric Allsopp, 2007

Aug 10

Concise Manifesto (some art is quite useful)

• I don‘t want to know what I want, I want to know what I want and why I want it.
• I want to say something and at the same time say it’s nothing.
• I don’t consider myself to be a critical outsider, I consider myself to be an insider with a lot of time on his hands.
• It has become old-fashioned to say that it has become old-fashioned to say that painting has become old-fashioned.
• The same holds for poetry.
• Creativity is not so much about inventiveness as it is about the stubborn and consistent pursuit of an arbitrary goal.
• A man should be more playful than a man and more dangerous than a boy.
• Some art is quite useful.

This is what my year planning looks like more or less each year.