Kevin,

These ideas are interesting. I would also look at the chess career of Marcel Duchamp as a possible corollary that predates our technologies. I think it addresses similar ideas:

Bounce these quotes by Duchamp off Debord, Deleuze and Guattari- also don't forget Bourriaud:

"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position."

"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists."

Here is Duchamp's competition record: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=36967

good topic- more to discuss... Greg

On 4/6/07, Kevin McCoy km.takewithyou@gmail.com wrote:

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I really like that Kevin. Is there any connection between the parts of the triptych other than a purely aesthetic one (which works very well imho)?

This is what I am suspecting... I sense that there is some kind of sensibility about interconnectedness, complexity, and maybe even adaptability/openness that is somehow symptomatic of our current predicament. I have been reading Deleuze/Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus" recently, and I am sure that many of you are familiar with the idea of the rhizome, and now with books like Hardt and Negri's "Multitude" there are further discussions on multiplicity, identity, and democracy.

I guess I am one to suspect that even aesthetics are informed by some kind of concept or at least an "impulse"... I am a fan of Mehretu's work and the SI, and I just had this sort of connection go off in my brain last night and now I want to know everyone's thoughts :) Also I think in the Processing communities there is a strong leaning toward this "complex" interconnected aesthetic as well.

What do you guys (and girls?) think it is that makes this a plausible vision of the forces at work in the world? Do you think it is a perspective informed by technology, the amount of information flow in postindustrial societies and its inherent politics? I see this get even more interesting when we think about the "glitch"... or imagine a psychogeography of a digital network... I liked that idea of listening to the linux kernel!

Thanks, Kevin

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