Moving House

Sorry I've been out of touch. Brent's feeling much better, thankfully, and now
we're currently in the midst of the hell known as moving.;)
Almost there. We got an 'extension' from the landlord til Sunday for the remainder of junk removal and cleaning.One computer set up now at the new house and here I am stealing a few late night moments of the ol' clickyclackety for the joy of it.
Started my part-time dayjob again in town at the boutique/knit shop. It's actually been a welcome reprieve from the packing/moving chaos at home. Feeling good about the new house. Can't wait to really settle in (aka unpack my books and work in the studio which needs to be converted from a dining room).
Somehow I managed to finish my newest two prayer pieces during the brunt of the move, each 2 foot square, and those will be shown in a 'Methods and Materials' group show opening on Saturday in East Hampton along with my large 5 ft. 'Puja' piece. Now I need to get to work on the 'Attractor' piece I started which is supposed to go to the Connecticut gallery for a 'Love' show ridiculously soon. eek. I really don't know if it's possible. Needs a lot of work and two resin pour/layers. I may just have to put an older piece in...but I'm not giving up yet.
So much more to tell but I'm sleepy and have lots to do tomorrow so i'd better turn in.
Love you all. Hope to be back around more soon.

Memory Maps and Keyhole

I'm SO supposed to be cleaning and I'm stealing time here while B naps because I HAVE to mention a bit about memory maps! Ok, so Google bought Keyhole which is major. And now we've got an 'annotated memory map' trend starting up. This may seem like just a neat novelty...but I believe we're witnessing the sweet tender green buds of what is to be a massive collaborative reorganization of humanity's information within navigable immersive webspaces. So exciting. a big step in our evolution really.
As the tools and images become more and more commonplace, we will all be able to integrate a more detailed topsight vision into our daily lives. This grants us a better understanding of our place in the world and the systems/larger organism that we are all a part of..we may be more inclined to participate in shaping and sustaining our communities, especially when given the most intuitive of tools. hmmmm
And that's to say nothing of the gradual creation of an interconnected memory palace/ experiential collective memory.:)

(See, and they thought you'd have blown up the planet by now. I knew ya'll had potential. Well, we'll see. Go Earthians, you can do it!)

More memory maps.

Cyburbia

Been meaning to post this for a while- this is an artist statement I wrote up for the Cyburbia series:

CYBURBIA: Feedback from the Virtual



As I write this, real estate is booming and dream homes are blossoming - in cyberspace. Projected human desires mingle in this shared playground, connect, overlap, clash, merge, vanish, replicate, or die off; a primordial soup of immersive spaces combining and competing with one another. In the next few years we may watch the microcosms of virtual worlds as we would Petri dish experiments, learning much about ourselves in the process.

Computer games like Sim City encourage individuals to design and build virtual environments which run simulations of growth and change under their moderation. Massively multi-user realms such as Alphaworld and SecondLife when mapped, reveal the growth patterns and sprawl of these collaboratively built virtual worlds. Zoom to the details and back out again. Create your utopia.

I am inspired by the thought that with the continued progress and eventual integration of mapping tools such as geographic information systems with computer gaming technologies, we just may be able to evolve the needed feedback to recover from what seems to be a dangerous myopia. Aerial views never cease to amaze me, unmasking the familiar real-life towns, cities and roads I live within to be the internal structures of some large and complex organism. In both virtual and real worlds, we are learning how much our collective behaviors generate the structures and patterns we live amongst, both those we praise and those we condemn. How do we measure the health of our overall organism? What must we tend to in order to sustain ourselves and our environment?

As we become more and more aware of our interconnectedness, there is both hope and responsibility in the power of the individual to affect change. With the gradual proliferation of tools to view and simulate cumulative effects of our individual behaviors, one of our largest challenges will be to learn to live with the Bigger Picture in our daily lives… and to use this knowledge to better inform the choices with which we create our joined future.