01 October 06 - 14:48The Material Anatomy of the Handgun and Its Representations

05.19.06
Script for a Performace: Academic Lectures, Video and Poetry

This Project is a performance based lecture that uses a video as a large scale backdrop to expressive, academic spoken word. It is the first in a series of expected performaces to be based around weaponry, war and violence. This lecture was inspired by a statement by Gilles Deleuze in the book 'Negotiations' where he proposes that 'lectures should be like rock concerts'. These, therfore, are experiments with what would be traditional academic presentations.

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01 October 06 - 14:47Introduction: The Art of Collaborative Networks and Autonomous Systems as an Educational Praxis

12.30.05
Initial Paper Draft and Writen Experiments

A first draft of a certificational paper that I have been working on. This paper is by far complete. I am not even sure I indend to finish it! But in a way am more interested in workinng out some of my ideas in writen form rather than, at this moment, creating a finished product.

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01 October 06 - 14:47Deleuze and Guattari and the Machinic Phylum

01.09.06
Initial Draft of Ideas Concerning the texts of D&G

The following is from a paper that I am now in the process of drafting. It is a first attempt at understanding the very complex thought of Deleuze and Guattari and their understanding the the 'Machinic Phylum'. I feel very close to this subject matter because as a materialist, artist, and the son of craftsmen it is important foor me to understand the philosophical and historical implicaitons of creating and using materials.

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01 October 06 - 14:46Archive 02: Resisting Empire - A Cultural Diffusion

05.08.06
Idea Writing: An Archived, Non-Refined Draft

Just something I found while looking through my notes. Just a strange rambleing blurb about resisting empire, cultural diffusions and the like. Sometimes it is a lot easier (and interesting) to write something quickly and with feeling than to really sit dowwn and write a very refined and researched piece. the following is one such example of some improvisational , semi-academic, post-modern type writing.

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01 October 06 - 14:45T-Shirts as Public Art

09.16.05
Cultural Reflections and Project Propositions

I've been thinking about t-shirts lately and about creating a line of them. They would of course be highly political in nature. Living in the suburbs exposes one to a lot of imagery worn on the body in the form of this medium. I was really prompted when I was doing a little research and came across a variety of extremist right-wing imagery.

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01 October 06 - 14:45Running a Car from Vegetable Oil?

11.07.05
Cultural Reflextions and Project Propositions

In the wake of moving from New York City and the ever increasing fuel prices it has become apparent to me that the American addiction to oil might have to go through a serious phase of withdrawal before it can begin the process of curing. Just as methadone might be thought of as an alternative to the highly addictive heroin, as a substitute and being less harmful it does its trick, weaning the patient from its self destructive opiate cousin.

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01 October 06 - 14:43Reflections on Art 01

07.28.05
General Reflections on art and art making

I imagine like anyone involved in the arts it is vital that one continually persists in reconceptualising their own conception of what ART IS. My own personal view on this matter has gradually changed over the past ten years. As an undergraduate in a Community College my understanding of anything 'artistically based' was very much limited indeed to my past, historical experiences - mainly landscape painting and animal photography. Eventually throughout my education I soon began to take in a more globalized view of the arts, for the most part New York City based - not too far from Rochester NY where I was born and initially educated.

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01 October 06 - 14:42Archive 01: Labor, Craft and Open source

05.08.05
Idea Writing: An Archived, Non-Refined Draft

Since I haven't had a lot of time in the past week I just thought I would post some obscure "idea" writing that I was developing some time ago. This short is just one of many that I will eventually post as I come across them scattered all over my hard drive. I believe this writing to be highly subjective and was a little leery to post publicly at first. Since I am trying to write a certification paper and eventually a dissertation I soon realized it was not entirely out of my interest to track my progress no matter how "wrong" the thinking may be. What I have realized is that it is not really about whether the writing is "wrong" or "right" in a research or academic manner but whether one is "thinking" or "not-thinking". I myself would rather see "wrong thinking" than "right regurgitation". This is very true in art and when I teach my students this they (and I for that matter) usually become pleasantly surprised by the outcomes. This is to be my first entry in this experimentation of subjective thoughts. I will then be able to link thoughts together as these entries progress.

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01 October 06 - 14:23Ecologies Part I: Garden as Revolutionary Act

04.29.05
Ecological Observations of the Everyday

For the past few days my wife and I have been progressively tackling our upstate New York yard. After spending the past 5 years in New York City we recently moved to the upstate Rochester area due to the death of my father. My grandfather has been I’ll and living with my mother and she just couldn't take care of him alone. We have basically taken the summer off from our business and academic work. This sudden move has allowed us to be quickly immersed in suburban culture and because I am (I hope) a critical thinker I have become increasingly interested in the suburban landscape and its revolutionary potential for community and political transformation.

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