Always Connected. Always Alone.

When thinking about metamodernism – what it is, how one recognises it – I wrote down some notes on modernism and postmodernism. Along with thinking of the time spans and a few cultural influences, I wanted to come up with a pithy sentence on each of the eras. This...

The Porous Border Between Two Worlds

The early days of the World Wide Web ushered in the era of Cyber Utopianism, a belief that the Web would “boost democratic participation, trigger a renaissance in moribund communities [and] strengthen associational life.” (Morozov, 2011) The act of living a Cyber Utopian life required an existential, Sartrean separation...

Filtered

“Is this disconnect from our bodies the way we should be living? This flesh now feels like it is just another thing I have to take care of, like a plant. I just live in my mind now, but I feel like I’m somehow incomplete, artificial, a kind of...

Laurie Anderson- Norton Lectures

I first heard Laurian Anderson’s album Big Science in about 1983 and have been hooked to her ever since. Her storytelling is very important…...

Christmas break

I’m continuing to avoid doing anything for my MA…. which isn’t great… Instead, I’ve been reading (currently ‘Remainder’ by Tom McCarthy) and learning how to darn socks. If you were given cashmere socks for Christmas, you should learn how to darn socks, too, cos those things will have holes...

Peter Tscherkassky

Peter Tscherkassky’s films are amazing. I love his technique (see below) and the result. Outer Space- is made with footage from The Entity (1982) by Sidney J. Furie, starring Barbara Hershey. Christa Blümlinger at Senses of Cinema on Outer Space. LUFF.tv “Peter Tscherkassky gives us a brief userguide of...

Metamodernism

I learned about ‘metamodernism‘ when I was in my second year at Chelsea. I honestly don’t remember how I came upon it, but it blew my freakin’ mind and spoke to me in the deepest way. It suddenly made everything I’ve been increasingly feeling over the past 15 years...

Essay 1

The Porous Border Between Two Worlds Introduction The early days of the World Wide Web ushered in the era of Cyber Utopianism, a belief that the Web would “boost democratic participation, trigger a renaissance in moribund communities [and] strengthen associational life.” [1]Morozov, E. (2011). The Net Delusion. [Kindle] London:...

Links

This page is where I will keep links to articles, videos, images etc that may or may not be useful… Note 5th Feb: Adding links to my blog hasn’t been working very well, if I am honest. If I’m on my phone or, for whatever reason, I am unable...

Infrathin

“What art is in reality is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art, art is the gap. I like this idea and even if it’s not true I accept it for the truth.”[1]http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.com/infrathin (Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel...

I Am Sitting In A Room – Alvin Lucier

This piece has been an ongoing inspiration for several years now- the repetition until destruction and a creation of something new and other-worldly… Wikipedia I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece composed in 1969 and one of composer Alvin Lucier’s best known works. The piece...

Bibliography- Everything Else

Journals, articles, websites, online videos, etc A-ha, 2010. A-Ha – Take On Me (Official 4K Music Video). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914. Abramson, S. (2014). Metamodernism: The Basics. [online] HuffPost. Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/metamodernism-the-basics_b_5973184. [Accessed 4 Feb. 2022] Abramson, S. (2017a). What Is Metamodernism?. [online] Huffpost.com. Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-ismetamodernism_b_586e7075e4b0a5e600a788cd?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006 [Accessed 4 Feb....

Gallery

Attempting to find where the material world and the digital world meet. [modula id=”3144″] I set my computer to take screen grabs of my desktop at regular intervals throughout the day. I then took grabs from websites I frequented at various times throughout the day, then layered and blended...