Archives for February, 2006
Computers are Interesting, Part Two
Posted by Claire L. Evans on February 26, 2006 If we take at least as hypothetical truth my previous assumption that the Internet bears uncanny parallels to the Universe, it is in interesting to begin a discourse on the translation of both the conceptual and physical properties of the Universe onto its microcosm — the man-made web of chaos and information that is the…
Computers are Interesting
Posted by Claire L. Evans on February 25, 2006 I’ve always considered myself to be computer-savvy. After all, my Dad works for a major semiconductor manufacturer, I hung out deeply with MS-DOS when I was six, taught myself HTML in high school, and — I promise you — I have been on Myspace.com for much longer than you have. I’ve always scoffed at the…
The Expanding Cosmos
Posted by Claire L. Evans on February 19, 2006 I’ve been having a lot of good ideas recently. Some of them are for art installations I’ll never be able to do without the assistance of a gallerist, some of them are cool advertising tag-lines like “The Internet: A Window to Someone Else’s Computer(tm),” and some of them, like this one, are nebulous concepts that…
Smashing Plutocracy
Posted by Claire L. Evans on February 14, 2006 There are a great deal of things in this civilized world of ours which we accept as truth primarily out of laziness or convenience; in fact, it would not be radical to say that our fragile social universe is built upon such precepts. The structure of language, for example, is pretty much arbitrary. So is…
