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One file many expressions.

#0763 One file
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Years ago, one of the explorations in psyberspace led to the insight that the end user (and that was still a strange word then) could do what they liked with your layout on the web or in an email. The creator used colour perhaps, but the user could set everything to B&W for example, or green and orange.

Is that participatory art?

Sort of. It came up very early here in a conversation about the diversity of these sketches. The user can unify! In a way that is what Michel Allen has done by selecting 14.

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There is an A4 limited edition of 25 on Epson paper of this print. Now imagine in addition:

  • The image printed on 1.2 meter wide canvas
  • A meter square lightbox
  • Printed by Adgraphix onto 2,500 tiles
  • projected onto a screen
  • video in you tube
  • a postcard
  • a postage stamp
  • a book cover
  • a Button – (Josh, can you make one?)
  • T-shirt, mouse-pad, mug etc at café-press
  • Fridge magnet
  • Sticky labels

None of these things need to happen physically of course. They already have in our mind.

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The notion is well established in contemporary art.

Look: at the Dia in Beacon:

Continue reading “One file many expressions.”

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Le Café

#0764 Le Café
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Just the usual quick doodle in a café. I spent hours here tonight, posting. Highlighted in this image is a bit of physical art that I have just digitalised in some way. Must attribute it to the artist who made that physical object. Like so much art it was physically born.

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Bring the Troops Home

#0759 Bring the Troop Home
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Still with the lovely thought that I have a question every day; what about politics and art? I thought, if we have protest songs, why not a protest sketch.

All this sketching is happening in 2006 -7. Years of imperial war. Oil war. Invasion of sovereign states by the USA, Australia and GB. And New Zealand is not innocent. New Zealand is in Afghanistan for no good reason other than sucking up to the USA.

I am glad that somewhere in these 1000 sketches I have said “Bring the Troop Home!” that seems the simple action that the invaders need to do. Nothing else is enough.

Print as many of these as you like.

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Is this a sketch?

#0755 Is this a sketch?
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Thursdays conversation with Dan. I told him about my experience in Nevada with Shawn & Emily, Shawn looked at my sketches and said: “What is your question?” Dan responded with something I found right and affirming, “You have a question every day, you are questioning all the time.” Yes. So it was hard to answer Shawn. If he had asked “What is your question today?” no problem. Dan & I continued to chat away about decorative and digital, cyberspace, and matters psychological. One question of the day was “what is a sketch?”

Thanks Dan for suggesting this one! It got me started on a roll.

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Untitled 1b

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I have just reinstalled Photoshop, it seems I need it to print. Printing is what I have been doing for thre days, or rather not printing, but fiddleing with profiles and software. Troubleshooting. I am so pleased to have reinstalled all my R2400 software, seemed needed after an upgrade of driver did not work. Then found the ICC files for Hahnemuhle paper, needed Photoshop for the use of those. Done, looking good.

In the process, experimenting with Photoshop again and these just poped out. They are very computery, but there is something quite endearing about them too.

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