Comings and Goings

Had a meeting with my supervisor Ryszard Dabek. Only one week until I submit my Masters paper ‘Love as the Mediation of Intimacy’ in for examination. Ryszard shared some links to net art projects that he thought might interest me. The Sheep Market was a particularly interesting work that used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to commission [...]

Analysed a graph depicting the death of Marxism, postmodernism, and ‘other stupid academic fads’. Collected my own data and created a graph that depicts articles that mention postmodernism in academic journals versus the Sydney Morning Herald. It shows that while the Herald publishes more articles that mention postmodernism, the academic journals begin to publish less. [...]

Left a Becks in the freezer for too long. Archived some artworks and sent some emails.

Posted ‘Art, Journalism and Economics in the Age of Reproduction’ on the Jackette. Read
‘Of theses and of theatricality’ by Richard Nile. Listened to Mingus Ah Um and slowly went blind in one eye. Silent migraine.

Read a bit more about oil painting. Considered enrolling in a weekend class. Read Flusser’s Writings. Paid my bills.

Listening to Chad VanGaalen. Calgary, for such a small town, seems to produce a lot of good music. Researching oil painting. Should maybe heed Brett Whiteley’s advice for a young artist and go to an ‘art supply house’, acquire some paint and start painting. Although I don’t want to go in blind.

Edited my profile on the NAVA website, although it didn’t update. Started scripting conversations I would like to have. I wrote myself in as A, now just need to find myself a B. Still thinking about Ross Gibson’s work Conversations II at the Sydney Biennale.

Distracted briefly by Brian WIlson singing in a black cab. Drew up some diagrams of how things should be. Filled in my application form for exhibition space at the SCA Degree Show. A graduation show sponsored by a pharmacy.

Had a meeting with Ryszard Dabek and discussed the progress with my MVA paper. Told him about the work I want to make after I finish the work I am currently making. He asked how the current work was going. I told him I hadn’t been working on it and was instead working on the [...]