First Painting

32x48 pencil and acrylic on plywood.

Unideal Villa

shinkenchiku residential design competition (2002?). the text reads:

Unideal Villa

Give me ground to stand on and I will move the world.
-Archimedes

In the presence of your eyes only the inhabitants of the Unideal Villa have slipped from Logos , running free as one could in Hades. Such as it is in Utopia, one must willfully struggle from the good, wise and happy; quite the opposite from our world where eudaimonia is far from reach.

Like the Ideal Villa, here geometry regulates. This geometrric regulation is logos itself - the laying that gathers. Unlike the Ideal Villa, what is gathered is sensable, not an ideal object edified. Collage rewrites the idea of laying that gathers. What is gathered is not what can first be said, know, or even imagined. Collage is a machine for imagination, a mechanized imagination. It is a machine for slipping from structure, from language.

Reconfigure the world and you will have the world of man. I call this world Irreal.

These drawings are a beginning of play and imagination on these ideas. The end is nowhere in sight.

Exterminate all rationality.
-W.S.Burroughs

references to logos/the laying that gathers from Heidegger's analysis of Anaximander in 'Early Greek Thinking'.

max/msp subpatches

im sure that the max/msp patch i displayed makes no sense whatsoever to anybody. to try to illucidate what is going on a bit more, these are screenshots of subpatches (green boxes) that are active in that main patch. these subpatches are where most of the action is taking place. actually that main patch that i uploaded has all kinds of wires and other objects in it as well but i have hidden these so that its easier to play with... yup. graphical programming is dope.

More SF

Some more from the 'Significant Form' series.

Significant Form

Some of the best of the last of my 'Significant Form' drawings. This is a series of about a hundred drawings I did last fall while working on an essay on the same subject. Hopefully there will be more to come and more developements as well.

3D test

The second model I built in SketchUp while demoing the program. I also made an animation but its too big to load to the web.

max/msp

This is the beginning of my not-so-secret-secret-project. Its a max/msp patch, essentially a custom program that I built with the max/msp program(graphical programming environment). Essentially this thing rhythmically processes numbers. Rhythmic number processing. Rhythmic number generation. Algorithmic number generation in time. Or some such. Then these numbers can be output. But im not there yet really. Its just the beginning.

ae Radio

custom CD cover for Autechre 'Radio' promo. dont you wish you had a copy of this? i do.

sfB1

Image from the significant form series. A breakthrough moment really.

those who go under CD

CD cover from my 'those who go under' album. For those of you who are 'curious', the phrase is taken from Thus Spake Zarathustra.

gulietta CD

hummm... some images i made from 'gulietta degla spiriti' the fellini film. it would be insulting to say that this is one of my favorite films. it means much more to me than that. i originally made these images for a cd i produced of music made from sounds captured from the film as well. if that made any sense.