Niépce Museum catalog essay
The catalog essay for the huge exhibition of my portrait work to date: One critical moment in the history of Western culture came in the seventh century A.D. in Nicaea, a city in Asia Minor. At that...
View ArticleReview of ISEA 94
To write an all-encompassing article about the ever-changing states of cybernetics in art and culture is virtually impossible. Although every digital machine is grounded in the balanced order of...
View ArticleDeveloping Digital Media at the Icelandic Academy of Art
This article expresses a few personal ideas about changing the educational structure of the Icelandic Academy of Art to stimulate what is presently an introverted and socially isolated program....
View ArticleManifestations of Networking
Published in Valokuva: Contemporary Imagery Review/Journal of Finnish Photography, vol. 46 number 5, Helsinki, Finland, October 1996 As a basic tenet of existence, I intentionally seek to inhabit all...
View ArticleManifestations of Networking
As a basic tenet of existence, I intentionally seek to inhabit all spaces that I encounter as personal spaces of genuine dialogue and interaction — humane intervention based in a mutual recognition and...
View Articlesolstice-to-solstice
A short note about the installation that I just opened yesterday as part of the Akureyri ListaSumar 1997 (Summer Arts Festival). It is an extension of the performance series solstice-to-solstice: a...
View Articletech-no-madic meditations
On the road again / Going places I’ve never been / Seein’ things I may never see again / I can’t wait to get on the road again… — Willie Nelson This unfinished sketch of text, expelled in November...
View ArticleCLUI residency — Energy of Situation
Some final words on the residency period: Energy of Situation Rather than producing new material configurations of the energized world as a tool for individual continuance and relevance to the wider...
View ArticleSurfing the Gray Line
A sonopoetic exploration of space, sound and radio by Udo Noll The fiery aether, which has no weight, formed the vault of heaven, flashing upwards to take its place in the highest sphere. The air, next...
View ArticleChristmas of Old: Linn, Missouri
[Ed.: I hope you will enjoy this story written by my great-grandfather George's brother, Ebenezer Hopkins. Uncle Ebs was a Methodist circuit riding minister, both in Missouri and Washington State....
View ArticleTOTEM: ný verk
This essay was written for an exhibition that included photographs, installations, and performances which took place at Galerí Einn Einn, Reykjavík, Iceland, March 1991. The word totem evolves from the...
View ArticleLight on water
I am out at the northern-most reaches of Eyjafjördur with Jón for some hours on a brilliant and long July day in 1992, there is an Arctic breeze blowing from the North. The sky is the transparent pale...
View ArticleThe (Tantric) Science of Sound
by Rooji Saluja In tantra, there exists an entire science that makes use of sound energy in spiritual practice. Mantras are sonic vehicles that encapsulate mystical energy and direct it towards...
View Articleimagination morte imaginez
One of my favorite Beckett pieces: No trace anywhere of life, you say, pah, no difficulty there, imagination not dead yet, yes, dead, good, imagination dead imagine. Islands, waters, azure, verdure,...
View Article1 + 1 = 3
This is the third acoustic.space report on selected actions and flows in the neoscenes occupation (nso) [1] network. Since the last report [2] in the acoustic.space Net.Audio issue two years ago, nso...
View ArticleOrdering the Dataspace
I sketch this essay while flying along in the dark at 250+ km/hour in one of the spacious new saloon cars on the last Friday evening ICE (InterCity Express) train between Hamburg and Berlin. For the...
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Nordic Nazi recollections
Hitler’s worldview included copious referencing of Nordic creation mythologies (thus his love of Wagner!), and as a consequence of this there developed strong pro-Nazi movements leading up to,...
View ArticleFor an Interactive Art – Ian Rawlinson
This essay, by London-based artist Ian Rawlinson, mentions a project I was involved with Clive Sall and Emma Davis called Outpost which appeared at the Venice Biennale (1995) and the Edinburgh Festival...
View ArticleParagraphs on Computer Art, Past and Present by Prof. (emer.) Dr. Frieder Nake
My old friend Frieder’s meditations on computer art are foundational as per his inimitable style of thought and expression. I am honored to present this text here on the tech-no-mad blog, though the...
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