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Art Encounters | Art in the Age of Virtual Reproduction
One of the strange things about the internet is that I now have friends I’ve never met. I even have friends on the internet that have seemed hesitant when I suggested we meet in proper: in the real world. Only when I mentioned I’d be where…
Art Encounters | Memory Matters (Hunting for Something Other than Deer)
‘Reflective perception is a circuit, in which all the elements, including the perceived object itself, hold each other in a state of mutual tension as in an electric circuit, so that no disturbance starting from the object can stop on its…
Art Encounters | On Driving Home With Pablo
Let’s begin by trying to suggest what an encounter is (and is not). An encounter can take the form of an unexpected liaison; a kind of spark to begin thinking. But an encounter, in the sense of what I mean here, is about an ‘affect,’ the…
Art Encounters | I Found Myself Within A Forest Dark
I found myself within a forest dark….
I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at that moment,
Dante’s Inferno, Canto 1.
I’m lying on the bed in the converted attic of my new abode in the country; or at least…