Author Archives: Tom Clark

3D modelling – Extra Dimensional: Primitive London.
“Following on from the last editorial that Primitive styled for Tank Magazine we have again collaborated to create a series of images that were created using a 3-D scanner. The latest issue is out now in stores.”

3D modelling – Extra Dimensional: Primitive London.
“Following on from the last editorial that Primitive styled for Tank Magazine we have again collaborated to create a series of images that were created using a 3-D scanner. The latest issue is out now in stores.”

Surface / Texture: CHANGING OUR MINDS: A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE BRAIN –
By Hannah Proctor & Michael Runyan, 4 March 2014 “Humans make their own history, but contemporary philosophy seems to be adapting the neo-colonial perspectives of neuroscience to dismiss the idea this could ever be a conscious and system-antagonistic process, argue

Surface / Texture: CHANGING OUR MINDS: A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE BRAIN –
By Hannah Proctor & Michael Runyan, 4 March 2014 “Humans make their own history, but contemporary philosophy seems to be adapting the neo-colonial perspectives of neuroscience to dismiss the idea this could ever be a conscious and system-antagonistic process, argue

Neo Medievalisms Symposium
“What does the political, legal and economic world-of-thought of the Middle Ages have to offer as a means of unpicking the founding rituals of late capitalism, its technologies and attendant flow of images?

Neo Medievalisms Symposium
“What does the political, legal and economic world-of-thought of the Middle Ages have to offer as a means of unpicking the founding rituals of late capitalism, its technologies and attendant flow of images?

3D Printing and Network Materiality – Infrastructures
“Urgent rethinking is required to avoid the revolutionary potential of 3D printing being lost in a sea of pointless plastic products.. FULL TEXT”

3D Printing and Network Materiality – Infrastructures
“Urgent rethinking is required to avoid the revolutionary potential of 3D printing being lost in a sea of pointless plastic products.. FULL TEXT”

Structural Holes and Good Ideas
People who are near structural holes are at “greater risk” of having good ideas…

Structural Holes and Good Ideas
People who are near structural holes are at “greater risk” of having good ideas…

Emmanuel Levinas
“French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s thinking on art goes to the very heart of the debate concerning the possibility of “thinking (or expressing/expressive) pictures”. Knowing whether or not art can give things a face would enable us to ascertain whether images are capable of exceeding themselves –

Emmanuel Levinas
“French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s thinking on art goes to the very heart of the debate concerning the possibility of “thinking (or expressing/expressive) pictures”. Knowing whether or not art can give things a face would enable us to ascertain whether images are capable of exceeding themselves –

Marina Vishmidt – “Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated”: Social Practice as Business Model
“The title “Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated” comes from a phrase used in an essay by Theodor Adorno called “Situation,” published in his book Aesthetic Theory. In this essay Adorno writes, “Only by immersing its autonomy in society’s imagerie can art surmount

Marina Vishmidt – “Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated”: Social Practice as Business Model
“The title “Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated” comes from a phrase used in an essay by Theodor Adorno called “Situation,” published in his book Aesthetic Theory. In this essay Adorno writes, “Only by immersing its autonomy in society’s imagerie can art surmount

“Breathtaking” Design Strategy for PEPSI – Arnell Group
Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group as of 2008.08.04 via Morning Star Rebranded

“Breathtaking” Design Strategy for PEPSI – Arnell Group
Work in progress for rebranding Pepsi Cola by Arnell Group as of 2008.08.04 via Morning Star Rebranded

The Cypherpunk Revolutionary Julian Assange – Robert Manne
“FEWER THAN 20 YEARS AGO JULIAN ASSANGE WAS SLEEPING ROUGH. EVEN A YEAR AGO HARDLY ANYONE KNEW HIS NAME. TODAY HE IS ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN AND MOST-RESPECTED HUMAN BEINGS ON EARTH. Assange was the overwhelming winner of the popular

The Cypherpunk Revolutionary Julian Assange – Robert Manne
“FEWER THAN 20 YEARS AGO JULIAN ASSANGE WAS SLEEPING ROUGH. EVEN A YEAR AGO HARDLY ANYONE KNEW HIS NAME. TODAY HE IS ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN AND MOST-RESPECTED HUMAN BEINGS ON EARTH. Assange was the overwhelming winner of the popular

Antiknow – Jakob Jakobsen – Flat Time House, London; Review
(Draft): Antiknow – Exclusive and elusive In 1968, John Latham (who’s house-archive makes up Flat Time House) proposed a “probably unrealized[1]” course for the AntiUniveristy in Shoredtich East London called Antiknow: To have respect for observation is fine and unexceptional.

Antiknow – Jakob Jakobsen – Flat Time House, London; Review
(Draft): Antiknow – Exclusive and elusive In 1968, John Latham (who’s house-archive makes up Flat Time House) proposed a “probably unrealized[1]” course for the AntiUniveristy in Shoredtich East London called Antiknow: To have respect for observation is fine and unexceptional.
Neo-feudalism – World-building in the networks
Neo-feudalism – World-building in the networks – Julian Assange expressing sovereign control over wikileaks: “Relations between Assange and Domseheit-Berg became increasingly tense, especially after Assange warned him, in April 2010, rather alarmingly: “If you fuck up, I’ll hunt you down
Neo-feudalism – World-building in the networks
Neo-feudalism – World-building in the networks – Julian Assange expressing sovereign control over wikileaks: “Relations between Assange and Domseheit-Berg became increasingly tense, especially after Assange warned him, in April 2010, rather alarmingly: “If you fuck up, I’ll hunt you down

Build the Party – First, Get a Picture of the Battlefield – Government by Way of Google Glass
“***scrounged from the deep web*** “Technology is no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the

Build the Party – First, Get a Picture of the Battlefield – Government by Way of Google Glass
“***scrounged from the deep web*** “Technology is no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the

A_M 2013 Press
Unified Fabric Review in Frieze 160 Unified Fabric ARCADIA MISSA, ‘Unified Fabric’, 2013, installation view ‘Unified Fabric’, a collaboration between the London-based artist Harry Sanderson and Arcadia Missa, was the latest exhibition in the latter’s ongoing research into the economy

A_M 2013 Press
Unified Fabric Review in Frieze 160 Unified Fabric ARCADIA MISSA, ‘Unified Fabric’, 2013, installation view ‘Unified Fabric’, a collaboration between the London-based artist Harry Sanderson and Arcadia Missa, was the latest exhibition in the latter’s ongoing research into the economy

World as Brand – Gamechangers Wolff Olins Trend Report / Policy Document
“Consumers no longer simply consume. They’re active, skeptical, creative, entrepreneurial. This used to be a minority pursuit. Now technology has made it mainstream: it’s given consumers new powers to be agents.”

World as Brand – Gamechangers Wolff Olins Trend Report / Policy Document
“Consumers no longer simply consume. They’re active, skeptical, creative, entrepreneurial. This used to be a minority pursuit. Now technology has made it mainstream: it’s given consumers new powers to be agents.”

Metahaven – Nul Point
“Democracy without Secrets” – Freedom of information aggregator

Medievalism – Neoreactionaries / Holy Empire
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/ See for: Seasteading Further – and in Context of Southern Europe / Catholicism: http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/holy-southern-empire-proposal-southern-european-anarcho-papism

Medievalism – Neoreactionaries / Holy Empire
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/ See for: Seasteading Further – and in Context of Southern Europe / Catholicism: http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/holy-southern-empire-proposal-southern-european-anarcho-papism

After Participation – Collective Action Group
After Participation / Empty Action – standing around : illegality of unemployment in Soviet Union Action in to life + Documenting participation

After Participation – Collective Action Group
After Participation / Empty Action – standing around : illegality of unemployment in Soviet Union Action in to life + Documenting participation

Female Trouble
Great article by Elizabeth Gumport on Chris Kraus, universalising the personal, narrative, and MFAs http://nplusonemag.com/female-trouble

Female Trouble
Great article by Elizabeth Gumport on Chris Kraus, universalising the personal, narrative, and MFAs http://nplusonemag.com/female-trouble

E-Toy | Funding Strategy
Cooperative Stocks,membership model http://etoy.com/projects/ http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/do-they-do-not-they-do any similarities to social enterprise funding…? V22 http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk/default.aspx

E-Toy | Funding Strategy
Cooperative Stocks,membership model http://etoy.com/projects/ http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/do-they-do-not-they-do any similarities to social enterprise funding…? V22 http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk/default.aspx

Ann Hirsch
Ann Hirsch is one of the best artists working with networked media and performance today.

Ann Hirsch
Ann Hirsch is one of the best artists working with networked media and performance today.

The Onsie Cycle – Benedict Drew – 2Queens/The Phoenix, Leicester; Review
Let’s face it, contemporary reality is much more the feeling of fully enclosed terry cloth and cheap-24hr meat products (processed food), than it is the slick dreams of digital high definition. In a continuation (or as Drew calls it, a

The Onsie Cycle – Benedict Drew – 2Queens/The Phoenix, Leicester; Review
Let’s face it, contemporary reality is much more the feeling of fully enclosed terry cloth and cheap-24hr meat products (processed food), than it is the slick dreams of digital high definition. In a continuation (or as Drew calls it, a

So I Thought I’d Join the 21st Century & Get In On The Act – Tom Huett – Carlos Ishikawa, London: Review
Narrative. Seemingly everywhere in 2013. When Frieze Magazine recently asked how – in light of technological advances in presentation platforms – narrative structures will change, Ian Cheng described an “intuitive technology for normalising change, for coherring the experience of reality

So I Thought I’d Join the 21st Century & Get In On The Act – Tom Huett – Carlos Ishikawa, London: Review
Narrative. Seemingly everywhere in 2013. When Frieze Magazine recently asked how – in light of technological advances in presentation platforms – narrative structures will change, Ian Cheng described an “intuitive technology for normalising change, for coherring the experience of reality

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Boris Buden – Utopia in the past, not the future
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Boris Buden – Utopia in the past, not the future
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Jon Stewart on why the US is a proper regime.
If you’re regime is not strong enough to handle a joke then you’re not a regime.
Jon Stewart on why the US is a proper regime.
If you’re regime is not strong enough to handle a joke then you’re not a regime.
just stop worrying
http://www.missionmodelsmoney.org.uk/ Click to access MPRA_paper_14902.pdf
just stop worrying
http://www.missionmodelsmoney.org.uk/ Click to access MPRA_paper_14902.pdf
HTML 5 – HTSFE3
http://dismagazine.com/disco/mixes/44590/arpebu-the-legacy-of-record-player-bu/ http://www.unitedmicrokingdoms.org/ http://diveintohtml5.info/ http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/best-html5-websites http://www.cabanova.com/ trunk and branch – hidden page slugs? if possible would need password access / paywall
HTML 5 – HTSFE3
http://dismagazine.com/disco/mixes/44590/arpebu-the-legacy-of-record-player-bu/ http://www.unitedmicrokingdoms.org/ http://diveintohtml5.info/ http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/best-html5-websites http://www.cabanova.com/ trunk and branch – hidden page slugs? if possible would need password access / paywall