The Digital Path to Analog Love

Manos
etching on Carbon Paper
9″ x 9″
2004

an investigation for the The Information is Not Knowledge Project, Curated by Amanda Thackray and James Prez, where “each artist was given one volume, from a complete set of Encyclopedia Britanicas, and asked to do whatever they pleased with it.”
I asked in turn artists and friends to help gestate the project following shifting rules, [...]

…But let me share with you as usual the day’s small find, (which today is something i found in the Stoic writer Hecato)… ‘Cease to hope’ he said ‘ and you will cease to fear’… Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so movin together surprise me; both belong to a mind [...]

On Cybernetics and Society, Norbert Wiener argues that our human ability to learn and adapt to new circumstances is the key contributing factor to our perceived superiority over other living creatures, that this ability to learn and adapt is dependent on memory and that

The physiological condition for memory and hence for learning seems to [...]