Comments on: The edge of chaos http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog/2008/08/26/the-edge-of-chaos/ “All is but toys: renown, and grace, is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of” --- William Shakespeare Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:13:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matti Pohjonen http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog/2008/08/26/the-edge-of-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Matti Pohjonen Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:11:22 +0000 http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog/2008/08/26/the-edge-of-chaos/#comment-396 Well, technically speaking my aim is not to capture a post-apocalyptic sci-fi scenario here. I like to see this series more in terms of '-dividualism' - that which precedes the individual. "The -dividual city." We have seen too many picture of smiling faces, or more specifially, too much photography of teeth. Of individuals. The National Geography imaginary of the exotic world. For anybody who stays in Bombay for more than a few days will know that in such an enormous metropolis, most of the people we never can or will experience as individuals. Rather, it is the non-linear mass of collective movement, flows, moorings, accelerations, trans- and inter-actions that we experience. I am also interested in seeing a kind of an a-anthropocentric vision of the world; not seeing frozen moments, but seeing fluctuating frame-rates, seeing different timescales of existence from cars to people to buildings to nature bubbling in-between ... Well, technically speaking my aim is not to capture a post-apocalyptic sci-fi scenario here.

I like to see this series more in terms of ‘-dividualism’ – that which precedes the individual. “The -dividual city.” We have seen too many picture of smiling faces, or more specifially, too much photography of teeth. Of individuals. The National Geography imaginary of the exotic world.

For anybody who stays in Bombay for more than a few days will know that in such an enormous metropolis, most of the people we never can or will experience as individuals. Rather, it is the non-linear mass of collective movement, flows, moorings, accelerations, trans- and inter-actions that we experience. I am also interested in seeing a kind of an a-anthropocentric vision of the world; not seeing frozen moments, but seeing fluctuating frame-rates, seeing different timescales of existence from cars to people to buildings to nature bubbling in-between …

]]> By: Tom Humes http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog/2008/08/26/the-edge-of-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Tom Humes Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:15:26 +0000 http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog/2008/08/26/the-edge-of-chaos/#comment-394 Nice Site layout for your blog. I am looking forward to reading more from you. Tom Humes Nice Site layout for your blog. I am looking forward to reading more from you.

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