first pitch

pyramid_chewbacca

Boris Groys, Art Power, page 63 (this doesn't have anything to do with the above image but it does apply to my BLOG exhibition 3 years ago--I'm mainly using it to separate the above image from the pogs below):

...when the distinction between original and copy is merely a topological, contextual one, then it not only becomes possible to remove an original from its site and deterritorialize it, but also to reterritorialize the copy. [Walter] Benjamin... calls attention to this possibility when he writes about the figure of profane illumination and refers to the forms of life that can lead to such profane illumination: "The reader, the thinker, the loiterer, the flâneur, are types of illuminati just as much as the opium eater, the dreamer, the ecstatic." One is struck by the fact that that these figures of profane illumination are also figures of motion--especially the flâneur. The flâneur does not demand of things that they come to him; he goes to things. In this sense the flâneur does not destroy the auras of things; he respects them. Or rather, only through him does the aura emerge again. The figure of profane illumination is the reversal of the "loss of aura" that comes from sitting the copy in a topology of undetermined circulation through the modern mass media. Now, however, it is clear that the [art] installation can also be counted among the figures of profane illumination, because it transforms the viewer into a flâneur.

digital pogs redux

30x122-space
psychtest30x122-spaceunicorn30x122-spacerevenge30x122-spaceescapog

Tondo Atom 2030x122-space4eyespog-copy30x122-spaceacrylicptgpog30x122-spacepyramidpog animated

4arbpog.png30x122-spaceeyepog-copy30x122-spaceblobspog230x122-spacewallpog.png

batondo30x122-spacerainpog30x122-spacecubismopog30x122-spacefire

pyramidpog30x122-spacewallpog30x122-spacedogeyepog-copy30x122-spacefolderspog

30x122-space

dump.fm was making new digital pogs yesterday. (there are now many more new ones than in the original group from 4 years ago.) above are some of mine; all were done since May 2010, except the purple spiral molecule. A horizontal grid of these makes a better arrangement. [more background from lalblog on the original group; looking forward to an eventual large page of dump.fm pogs]

Update: Here is the dump pog page (mildly NSFW).