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“Le reel refers only to that which has neither a figure, like the imaginary, nor a syntax, like the symbolic. In other words, combinational systems and processes of visual perception cannot access the real, but this is precisely why it can only be stored and processed by technical media. The present can be distinguished from every earlier period by the fact that we live at a time when, with the help of Mandelbrot’s fractals, clouds can be calculated in their … Continue reading →

In a strange twist of events after beginning research on fractal geometry and in the middle of reading The Fractal Geometry of Nature, I found out today that the person who is responsible for giving me so much clarity in the exploration of my inclination toward art making has died. Tonight I am about to start a new project that was inspired by Mandelbrot’s thoughts on coastlines and I thought it only appropriate to quote him and the New York … Continue reading →

Recently I have been having some anxieties about the direction my thesis project is going. More directly, I think I am moving further and further away from the photographic as I explore certain themes that I find interesting. These themes range from ideas in mapping, information and mathematics. However, I did find a quote from Christiane Paul’s book Digital Art that gives me some comfort. “Art by means of computer technologies is more comparable with other technologically mediated art forms … Continue reading →

Saturday night musings: “If once we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly (the decline of the Empire witnesses the fraying of the map, little by little, and its fall into ruins, though the shreds are still discernible in the deserts–the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction testifying to a pride equal to the Empire and rotting like a … Continue reading →