Archive for February, 2006

when I grow up… part 2

Friday, February 17th, 2006

In order to compensate for my lack of ability to grow physically taller. I have instead grown intellectually out. This is perhaps a version of the Napoleon complex. But while Napoleon annexed land, I devour ideas. I have read that Napoleon was a very disciplined man. I would not say that this is true of [...]

when I grow up…

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

When I grow up I’m going to be a…. When I grow up. At the age of 29 I still hold to the idea that at some unknown point in the future I will transform in some, as yet unknown way, into something quite different than I am now – a grown up. At this [...]

Symbiotica Introduction

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Right now I am doing an artist residency at SymbioticA, an art and science collaborative research laboratory at the University of Western Australia. I am working on a few projects, some of which I began researching when I was last here in 2004. So far things are progressing slowly…. I am so used to the [...]

Hello world!

Monday, February 13th, 2006

I thought I might begin by quoting some of my favorite items from Bruce Mau’s ‘Incomplete Manifesto’ 1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and [...]