“Nothing is positive about art except that it is a word.” 

Willem de Kooning

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"I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree…and it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are and we have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.” 

Werner Herzog

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"The radical act of [the] techno rebels was that they entered an inhuman network of machinery and found a voice within it….nothing less than the human spirit, somewhere in a vast, inscrutable universe, daring to exist.”

Shuja Haider, Detroit Techno, New York Magazine, 2017

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“The Luddites’ mistake was that they failed to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they were used.” 

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

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Although all forms are eternal, the question remains: what forms, and it is easy to become distracted in pondering whether a rhombus or milk bottle, meso-morph 

Contains divinity if divinity is to be found in that which never changes, like a letter upon reflection, sheet, deck, thought, pile, crumpet, bog

Seen through the wrong end of the telescope, as if from a great height, or glimpsed from a speeding train for a second, recognized and abandoned as quickly as it was 

Forgotten by the train that brought it, ploughing on through the night, pushing buckets of air, sending sounds out like handcuffs to the phenomenal world

Which, through remaining unchanged and thereby uncontingent, resists the embrace of time upon which all notion of the possibility of transformation depends

Tim Atkins, Written Never Meaning

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“Technology is a way of revealing.”

Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology,Vorträge und Aufsätze, 1954

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“’Phase’ is a concept that helps us see the variable synchronicity of art and technology. Bach imagined music beyond what his instruments could play. Now we have instruments that can play beyond what can be imagined.” 

Gene Youngblood

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"Artists in the modern period were driven by a radical and forward thinking approach, ideas that included technological positivity and a grand narrative of progress. The reaction against this mindset came to be known as postmodernism."

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"Postmodernism is Modernism with the optimism taken out."

Robert Hewison

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"I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra"

Ishmael Reed

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 “TECHNÉ is an ancient Greek epistemological term that integrated beauty, art, expertise, technical knowledge, skill and industry: In Aristotle's time, artistic creativity and technology were not divided.” 

Victor Burgin

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“Poetic Logic’ is the sensuous apprehension of what we do not yet understand in the presence of reality.” 

Frederick Sommer

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 "Collage was a major turning point in the whole evolution of modernist art in this century."

Clement Greenburg, 1959 •

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"The word "gesture", originates in the Latin "gerere" (to carry, conduct oneself, act) becoming in medieval Latin "gestura" (bodily movement conveying a particular message). The study of the origins of both spoken and written language find the gesture, as an abstract, symbolic form, a precursor to speech and writing. In the visual arts, the word "gestural" refers to the artist's hand and bodily movement as recorded in paint or surface modulation. This gestural evidence is like a signature, as unique for each artist as a thumb print or DNA sample.

As an artist creating work with computers, I find myself operating in a machine/human hybrid. This of course is nothing new, but "gesture" becomes an interesting notion in the mix of electronic imaging and mathematics. One might say that an algorithm is as profoundly individual, in a sense as gestural, as the swelling volumes and sensuous rhythms of a freehand line."

MH

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“He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo a thousand fondlings, revisings, moldings, addings, removings, graftings, tearings, correctings, smoothings, rebuildings, reconsiderings, nailings, tackings, chippings, hammerings, hoistings, connectings—all the poor fumbling uncertain incompletions of human endeavor. They went on forever and were forever incomplete, far from perfect, refined, or smooth, full of terrible memories of failure and fears of failure, yet, in the way of things, somehow noble, complete, and shining in the end.” —The Town and the City- Jack Kerouac

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