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How to recognize a foundation stone. Creating anything original is like looking in a mirror. Sometimes you are eager to stare directly at your reflection, hoping to confirm some truth. But often, in my case at least, I avoid the obvious and, instead, focus on the incidental, circumstantial, maybe even accidental – all the items…
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The Art of Notarization
Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect.Art is an event. – Robert Genn
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Notarists
This post introduces the concept of a Notarist. A Notarist is an artist focused on notarizing acts of creation. As I hope to illustrate, there are both aesthetic and practical implications to this idea. I will present, in the next series of posts, new ways to creatively use data for artistic purposes and also demonstrate…
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Galatea
We’ve been here before. It’s been hard to fully digest all that’s happened in AI over the past couple of months. So many apt analogies apply but for me it feels like we are all about to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. It could be fine, fun even. But on the other hand,…
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Creation Proofs #2
On February 2, 2022, at 02:22:22PM ET – I existed. In the above video, the GPS application on the iPad and the Apple Watch provide 3rd-party verification of my space-time – location (even altitude) + date/time. They are meant to validate that this proof is supported by objective, external data. I, Peter, am actually at…
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Creation Proofs
Proposal – Capturing/recording an act of creation is a valid, 100% original, irreproducible, existential proof. Your existence is not a destination. It is defined by its continuity and quantified by its “exhaust”. All of your movements uniquely change the world – sometimes infinitesimally, sometimes categorically – from heartbeats to hugs. Your existence, in space-time, is…
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Existential proof
How can it be that … who I am didn’t exist before I came to be, and that, someday … who I am will no longer be …? Peter Handke’s Song of Childhood I’ve shared some thoughts on the idea of “being”. But by discussing my being, the notion of authenticity appears – how can you…
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Ego Sum
Ich bin. Je suis. I am. An artist’s work is, in essence, a declaration of existence – both physically and metaphorically. It’s Cartesian. Only it’s not “I think…”, it’s “I create therefore I am”. This assertion of being, and every creative act, occurs over time, in discrete locations (aka space-time). How can we use that…
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Measurement
It’s easy to believe that we have discovered all the main art forms already – that everything now will just be versions of what exists. I disagree and think there are many new avenues to explore – space-time being only one. I am purposely avoiding the work of Einstein, Schrödinger, Heisenberg and many others. I’m…
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