Essays pertaining to images (knowledge,ideas, memories, visualizations) , media (any content of any medium of information distribution), medium and technology (technology is just more media portrayed in a medium).
our bodies are a hologram of the entire universe...every cell contains the entire information of the universe
Deepak Chopra
Holograms
3-d light sculptures.
Light interference pattern recorded onto photographic film.
a small fragment of the holographic storage medium contains the whole image.
Holonomic Brain Theory
What we see as mass as interference patterns.
Music is in the air, resonating all around us, it is what we see, what we taste, what we feel, what we hear. Enjulating strings vibrating at the smallest measurable points. These resonate and propagate like waves, encompassing more and more space as each expands and refracts off the other. It is at this point where the dualities between music and the physical begin.
Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "I"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "I". And each time his I is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.
G.I. Gurdjieff
Etymology
As a cultural mediator, it is the role of the artist to keep the community in conscious relation to the changing and hidden ground of its preferred objectives
..[a] strategy is to construct an anti-environment, which is the normal activity of the artist, the only person in the culture whose whole business is the retraining and updating of sensibility.
Marshall McLuhan
The Global Village
Art
The reason I started creating this website was because i began to see suffering all around me. The suffering I am referring to is not caused by violence or abuse. This sickness or dis-ease is widespread. Rare is the person who is free from its symptoms. I term this dis-ease: Image Sickness. In this essay I will begin by defining what an image is and how images in the mind can lead to Image Sickness.
Images
willed without witting, whorled without aimed
James Joyce
My philosophy was impacted greatly by Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, Laws of Media, and The Global Village. It is clear that every human construction whether art or artifact is a technic or media, and technology and media are an extension of one or more parts of the human body. The shoe is an extension of the foot as is the wheel. The knife is an extension of our nails or teeth. Computers are an extension of our mental functions and consciousness. This is the definition of a medium or media.
What is an image? My usage of the word in this website defines an image as any of the following words: thoughts ,ideas, memories, a visual sensory snapshot, beliefs, and symbols.
We swim in an ocean of images. How did this come to be?
