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Category: Chu

  • T is for THREADONISM

    http://threadonism.blogspot.com/

    At threadonism.com you can find examples of HYPERBOLIC CROTCHET OBJECTS, each a unique model of mathematically defined HYPERBOLIC STRUCTURES. Bridging the gap between art and science, crochet is an ancient craft, both practical and functional in communities around the world and relatively ubiquitous in it’s application, croctet manifests structures, in this case HYPERBOLIC STRUCTURES, from simple threads (STRINGS) by way of a knotting or folding pattern, each twist is a rather complex operation, on the one hand, and a simple to pick up – handycraft – on the other.

    Hyperbolic Crotchet seems to be a great tool for bringing craftspeople and academic scientists together in a new and creative way, bridging the gaps between specialization and comprehensive knowledge systems and most importantly engaging human beings in ancient craft activities – physically and mentally – providing an alternatve reality engineering activity outside of the growing virtual – mental – social electronic frontere.

    Youtube and internet were the winds that blew the seeds of hyperbolic crotchet into my own life, and my partner has become a Hyperbolic Crotchet master in a matter of just a few months. I am excited to see such an idea manifest as a reality in front of my eyes – a mathematical proof and more – in fact, and beautiful like the fractal artwork explosions, soft, colorful, and malluable. I will share some of the relative links and extensions of the Hyperbolic field, that I feel help describe the importance of this growing craft, and also to pay tribute to the beautiful objects created by Janne at THREADONISM.COM

    Steven James Pratt

  • C is for CUBE: CHU & Korzybski

    The final cube, in case you missed it

    | posted on Jun 09 2009
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    360, Draw, Installations, News

    The little promotional stickers that advertised 51 Degrees, the solo show back in April, had a website on the reverse pointing to www.schudio.co.uk/51. Visitors to this page would have seen a few different panoramas during the show, but at the moment its the final rendition of the Cubic Experiment.

    After my group show, Jibbering Art moved the cube outisde. I had to recreate the floor and the ceiling, this gave me a chance to fill up the design a bit more, going for almost complete coverage. The floor was a large piece of reverse lino that took to the Edding pens really well, and was ably laid down by Big Chris and Jon from Jibbering.

    Line Steppers /

    Other details were added to the upper walls and some of the ‘rear’ wall, opposite the slogan.

    Line Steppers / Christy

    The final effect was more than satisfactory and it continued to conceal a few secrets of its own.

    See the final cube in its own FULL PAGE window, no need to download anything to see it, all you need is Flash installed (which most browsers have nowadays, if not then go here.)

    “The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture.
    There was a time when naif alphabetters would have written it
    down the tracing of a purely deliquescent recidivist, possibly
    ambidextrous, snubnosed probably and presenting a strangely
    profound rainbowl in his (or her) occiput.    — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake pg. 107.

    http://www.vimeo.com/4372989

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_alphabet

    “Dr. Zellweger’s background is a combination of formal education and extensive research in the fields of Psychology, Pedagogy, Semiotics and Logic. Beginning in 1949, Dr. Zellweger spent his summer at the Institute of General Semantics with Alfred Korzybski. In 1975 he spent one year at the University of Illinois, Biological Computer Laboratory, under the direction of Heinz von Foerster. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shea_Zellweger

    Logic Alphabet models by Shea Zellweger.

    In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, Shea Zellweger began a journey that would culminate in a radical new notation for formal logic, the set of relations that underlies modern computing. From a garage in Ohio, Zellweger developed a visual language he dubbed the “Logic Alphabet,” in which a group of specially designed letter-shapes are maneuvered like puzzles to reveal the geometric patterns hidden beneath the symbolic web of logic. For more than fifty years, Zellweger has been exploring the symmetries and relations inherent in these patterns, which he has made manifest in a series of delicately crafted wooden models and in thousands of pages of diagrams. In this jewel-box exhibit, the Institute For Figuring and the Museum of Jurassic Technology proudly present Dr Shea Zellweger’s Logic Alphabet models and drawings.

    The Logic Alphabet Tesseract – a four-dimensional cube. Diagrams by Warren Tschantz.

    Zellweger’s work is based on a discovery that the logic on which our computers run is allied with a geometric structure whose form is a tesseract, a four-dimensional cube. Much of his research over the past half century has aimed at identifying all the subsets of this group of relations in one, two, and three dimensions. The resulting models and diagrams, often crystalline in nature, constitute a genuine research project in logic while simultaneously passing through distinct aesthetic phases,
    reminiscent of Russian Constructivism, concrete poetry and Pop Art. What is most important here is that these physical models enable us manipulate logical symbols spatially – we may learn to do logic by flipping and rotating these marvelous toys.

    Left: The Logical Garnet, three dimensional projection of the Logic Alphabet tesseract. Right: A cubic sub-group of the Logical Garnet.

    That logic is underpinned by a spatial architecture was independently discovered at least six times in the history of mathematics, first by C.S. Pierce, one of the pioneers of the field. For Zellweger this fact is of more than purely formal significance – it is the seed of a potential pedagogical revolution. Through model play, he proposes, we may teach our infants logic in school. Like the great nineteenth century creator of the kindergarten system of education, Friedrich Froebel – himself an experienced crystallographer – Zellweger’s models call forth the latent potentiality of the mind through engagement of both the eyes and hands. This revolution would not be confined to the schoolroom, for given that logic is the foundation of computing, the alphabet might serve to re-envision the computer itself. — http://www.theiff.org/exhibits/iff-e7.html

    GRAFFITI ART AND STREET ART ARE REVOLUTIONIZING ALPHABET AND COMPUTERS – WAKE UP TO THE WRITING ON THE WALL.

    –STEVE FLY

    ALSO SEE http://www.logic-alphabet.net/
    Steven James Pratt

  • FF is for FLICKR FLY:

    http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649

    “flip yourself head over heels, as if swinging over a waist-high horizontal bar in front of you. Now your heart is on the same side as the mirror-person’s heart-but your feet and head are in the wrong places, and your stomach, although at approximately the right height, is upsidedown. So it seems a mirror can be perceived as reversing up and down, provided you’re willing to map yourself onto a creature whose feet are above its head. It all depends on the ways that you are willing to slip yourself onto another entity. — Douglas Hofstader. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (co-edited with Daniel Dennett)”

    “If a nonspinning inertial observer looks along his axis of symmetry, he sees his coaxial nonspinning inertial peers apparently nonspinning with respect to himself, as we would expect. – Godel_metric

    “QIUP – Quantum Inseparability Principle, named by Nick Herbert: the impossibility of existentially separating observer and observed. –- Dr. Robert Anton Wilson Quantum Psychology. New Falcon Press. Page. 107.

    “I also updated the piece to depict a modern market area, a supermarket or shopping mall, filled with glass panels (shamelessly achieved by the use of a paper edge). Instead of the three views culminating in exit points to organic backgrounds or nature, I chose to make the whole space an interior, with backgrounds of a shop, car park and a public sliding-door entrance. The figures are also modernised; cash machine, struggling pensioners, drunks, maintenance orderly and shoppers. — http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog/2009/m-c-escher-tribute-2-of-3

    “as if everything were not in displacement, detour, transference, metaphor everything is in the love potion of seduction… —Jean Baudrillard writes in Dust Breeding, 2001.

    “We used to think that physics described the Universe. Now we know that physics only describes what we can say about the Universe. — Niels Bohr. Quoted from “Quantum Psychology. RAW.”

    “The matrix is the kind of film about the matrix that the Matrix could have produced — Jean Baudrillard.

    “Consciousness is not only a way out of the evolutionary impasse, says Hilbrandt, but also an escape from the snares of Godelization, for by means of paralogistic contradictions this solution has sidestepped the contradictions to which every system that is perfect with respect to logic is subject. So, then, the universum of the personoids is fully rational, but they are not fully rational inhabitants of it. — “Non Serviam” from A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books by Stanislaw Lem. Copyright 1971 by Stanislaw Lem; English translation copyright 1979, 1978 by Stanislaw Lem, Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.”

    http://stores.lulu.com/flyagaric23
    http://fatteningblogsforsnakes.blogspot.com/
    http://flyolympic.blogspot.com/
    http://wordspore.blogspot.com/
    http://tsogblogsphere.blogspot.com/
    http://flyagaric2019.blogspot.com/
    http://acrillic.blogspot.com/
    http://maybelogic.blogspot.com/
    http://electronicdrugs.blogspot.com/
    http://ataleofatribe.blogspot.com/
    http://www.myspace.com/flyagaric23
    http://www.myspace.com/flyagaric24
    http://www.myspace.com/rawmemorial
    http://soundcloud.com/flyagaric23

    Steven James Pratt

  • F For Fiffty One DEGREES LAUNCH DJ SET BY FLY AGARIC


    51 DEGREES LAUNCH DISKS.

    22ND APRIL 2009. WILD BUILDING. DIGBETH. BIRMINGHAM UK. 8.00 PM.
    DJ FLY AGARIC 23.

    GRAFFITI BLUES – BLUE MITCHELL
    IF ITS GOOD TO YOU – EDDIE BO.
    TAKE IT ALL OFF – BO DIDDLEY
    SILLY SAVAGE – GOLDEN TOADSTOOLS
    SOUL POWER – JAMES BROWN
    BUMPIN’ BUS STOP – THUNDER AND LIGHTNING.
    LOOK-KA PY PY – THE INVADERS
    HEY BO – EDDIE BO
    BO DIDDLEY-ITIS – BO DIDDLEY
    THERE IT IS – JAMES BROWN
    STREET PARADE – EARL KING
    BO DIDDLEY – ART NEVILLE
    JUST KISSED MY BABY – THE METERS.
    LIGHT MY FIRE – SHIRLEY BASSEY
    LIGHT MY FIRE – MASSIVE ATTACK.
    BACK HOME – YUSEF LATEEF
    PEOPLE SAY – THE METERS.
    LONDON – DAVID AXELROD
    SHOO FLY MARCHES ON – DR. JOHN
    FEAKS FOR THE FESTIVAL – RASHEED ROLAND KIRK
    THERE WAS A TIME – JAMES BROWN
    DIRTY HARRY – LALO SCHIFRIN
    FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES – SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON.
    SOME MOTHERS SON – SANDRA PHILIPS.
    LOVER AND A FRIEND – EDDIE BO & INEZ CHEATHAM
    DOIN’ THE POPCORN – KIM MELVIN
    I’M A GREEDY MAN – JAMES BROWN
    MIRROR – CHARLIE MARIANO.
    AFRICA – THE METERS.
    BRING DOWN THE BIRDS – HERBIE HANCOCK
    LICKING STICK – JAMES BROWN
    LOOK AT GRANDMA – BO DIDDLEY
    CRISS-CROSS – THEOLONIOUS SPHERE MONK
    TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN – DUKE ELLINGTON
    COSMIC SEA – MYSTIC MOODS
    NIGHT TRAIN – JAMES BROWN
    BULLIT – LALO SCHIFRIN
    HEY JOYCE – LOU COUTNEY
    AT THE SOUL IN – COUNT YATES AND THE RHYTHM CRUSADERS.
    MAKE IT FUNKY – JAMES BROWN
    QUALIFIED – DR. JOHN
    GROOVY BABY – KIM TAMANGA
    CHICKEN STRUT – THE METERS
    HOWLING FOR JUDY – JEREMY STEIG
    ARE YOU TOGETHER FOR THE NEW DAY – THE LOVE EXPERIENCE.
    I’VE HAD IT HARD – BO DIDDLEY
    I NEED HELP – JAMES BROWN
    WHO STOLE MY COOKIE – THE PHILIPS BROTHERS.
    TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN BUSINESS – DAVE HAMILTON.
    SWEET POTATO GRAVY – MAURICE SIMON AND THE PIE MEN.
    WALK TALL – CANNONBALL ADDERLEY
    PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1 – JAMES BROWN
    SISSY WALK – BILLY BALL AND THE UPSETTERS
    CISSY POPCORN – PRESTON LOVE.
    CISSY STRUT – TRINADAD TRIPOLI STREET BAND
    ZA ZU – WALLY COX AND THE NATE BRANCH
    FOUR CORNERS – LEE DORSEY
    THE RUBBER BAND – EDDIE BO AND THE SOULFINDERS
    SPONTANEOUS SIMPLICITY – SUN RA
    JAZZ CATS – MADLIB
    RHYTHM-A-NING – THEOLONIOUS SPHERE MONK
    DISTANT STARS – THE HELIOCENTRICS
    LIFE – DR. JOHN

    Thanks to CHU, and to Laura, Pete and Olie and the Jibbering krewe. Each of the songs were played beginning to ending by myself in an improvised order.

    CHU. 51 DEGREES. RETROSPECTIVE AND AUDIO RESPONSIVE.
    A congress of audio components. Captured on canvas, aluminium, wood, steel. Projected by aerosol, ink, and light. A techni-coloured array within mediums, within mediums. And the price is just right. Reverse engineered computer graphics, brought back to the canvas again, audio components running through the work like a postman/sound engineer with sore feet.
    Symbols and symbol systems reflect off of canvas in a semantical pin-ball gallery. The meaning from each view point in the room changes as the symbol systems encroach upon the viewers perceptions. Smoking fine, yeah your right. Hanging portals and pictures you can fly through in a spaceship, a world of audio components, electronic, mechanical and manual. Communicating vessels from another world, where solid state entities inhabit audio components and where rogue tribes of interplanetary beings hunt down the beats and grooves to make the Universe dance.
    Every wire, plug, jack, socket, stylus, speaker and tape entity is grounded in earth – the foundation, the beat and the groove. Music. Music, in some sense is what connects all the pieces on show by CHU. Another way of seeing the work all-together in the gallery is as sound amplification and manipulation – a reaching out by a visual artist over to the sound world of music. A lead, jack, socket, wire, record..to plug into, turn on and power up. In the back of your mind you can now plug in the correct pattern to gladen’ the heart. A stereo guide to word sound image power. Turn on your mind and take the tour.
    THE THREE CHU PIECES THAT WERE MISSING!
    1. HOLE IN THE WALL
    2. BORN IN WALSALL
    3. CASTLE GIFT SHOP
    These three pieces of gigantic size are great testament to painting OUTDOORS, and are a reminder of the 100’s of OUTDOOR works, 1000’s by CHU that are way to large to bring into a gallery, and they are on a wall anyhow, for christs sakes. For anyone who has stumbled upon this writing about CHU’s exhibition: 51 DEGREES – keep kicking yourself as a reminder that he has also painted the world’s largest single-handed aerosol mural! But he would be quick to tell you that world records don’t mean half as much as soul records to im’, the audio components and the will to dance, groove and make beats prevails. I will extend my sentiment here to all the Graffiti writers worldwide who are bringing language up to speed using new tools and keeping the four elements interlocking between the streets and the cosmos. Yes boss.
    THE RISE OF THE AUDIO COMPONENTS.
    After the turmoil of the world banking palava, and the downword spiral of language into Ponzi schemes and overspending the planetary forces have reorganzized and deployed themselves to help humanity rise out of the slump and into the long boom, the perpetual crash of music. BACHWORDS. When audio equipment can grow wires and jacks like a living plant, or when electrical power can be hijacked, along with the infosphere – by biological entities – they have a high probability of taking on the form of communication devices, and symbol systems (hardware and software.) Hardwired and crosswired language bubbling beneath and without the Blackcountry’s equivalent of Japanese Manga. NO, not the rise of the machines, the congress of the audio processes. The interplay between audio components pulled down and out onto canvas by CHU, with the space surrounding them. The forced MUSIC in the head, brought about by the visual cunning of the audio engineered world. AUDIO RESPONSIVE. Remember. The pieces lead into each other.
    Maybe the tessellated patterning exhibited on the 3 Pieces – titled MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, MANUAL – are indicative of the hologramic style of CHU. Most things i have put down here are nothing new to CHU, he has been sketching this world for more than 12 years. But now we have a manifest environment that pitches the work together, projecting chronological, geographical and aesthetic relationships between the artist and his different mediums of expression. In the gallery space you can feel the holographic forces at work, and can slip on some 3D shades to view his tricky third attempt at a self portrait for the literal graphic 3D experience. Yet on another level i see the broad theory of CHU and his worlds morphing and blending with whatever comes his way, to mean that at the gallery space you can see the development of the pieces and how they fit together. The fitting together of the works seems to be yet another level of tessellation on behalf of CHU, and this method is directly exhibited in the two M.C Escher tribute canvases. And then we come to the cube. And tessellated perception. Immersive environments. 
    The cube remains beyond description. And the most difficult thing to capture with words. I might start by saying it is a room, built with 4 walls, a ceiling and a floor, but after decorating and chuscaping these numbers flux-chuate depending upon where you are looking from. The form of the cube seems to be related to the average height of human sight, so that distortions and impossible objects can formulate in the spaces, using that data as a starting point. The content of the cube or CHUBE is further scenarios from the rise of the audio components, this time hooking into and out of the giant alphabetical words: ITS NOT BIG AND ITS NOT CLEVER. Icons of electronic music culture, remix culture and audio engineering anarchy, turntables, tape-loops and speakers on the loose, chased by cables through cityscapes, chased by phantom power leads and microphone jacks. The electric word, electrified, like the mechanical bride – the words rise and the machines too, in a great torrent of seeing. In the cube i see no nouns, i only see verbs.
    Meanwhile projectors spit light shows and pixel reproductions of moving images, more invaders of the real, chu’s animations and graphics are a book in themselves, from the Walsall Illuminations installations to the VJ shows and animated gifs and computer games themselves, yes. Just take everything i wrote and put more verbs in, the moving images re-circulate the meanings quicker like a semantical windmill, spitting out graphical beings, solid state entities and more. And more…
    The exhibition also has the largest ever collection of YOUR MUM RANG memorabilia, a stunning sight in itself, although not immediately making the global extent of the sticker campaign visible in the great OUTDOORS. CHU has been dropping YOUR MUM RANG for 8 years as far as i know, the first sight of which i saw in San Francisco 2002. Visit CHU’s flickr site for the ongoing words to your MUM. Or think about creating your own campaign, transform your environment. Just on it.
    CHU seems to me to be of a new breed of aerosol artists, a pioneer of the field and a master of his class he continues to push the edges off and out, keeping the raw experimental edge with the precise tried and tested methods of his craft sharp. The cube was a great effort to arrange, construct, and prepare for CHU, but he laboured on with the project and deployed his CHUMOMETERS to startling effect. TOTAL IMMERSION! 
    Steve ‘Fly Agaric 23’ Pratt: Acrillic
    Steven James Pratt

  • 51 DEGREES: AUDIO RESPONSIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE. pt. 2

    http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4372989&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
    CHU EXHIBITION from Trav on Vimeo.

    http://vimeo.com/travart

    THanks TRAV. Good JOb.

    http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog/2009/360-degree-51-birmingham/

    360 Degree views of the Birmingham show

    | posted on May 12 2009
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    360

    Click on the image(s) below to see the fullscreen 360 degree panorama(s):

    53_gallery

    52_gallery

    51_gallery

    (opens in a new page, requires Apple Quicktime)

    For anybody who couldn’t make the show in Birmingham, view the main room from three different angles. You can also view the cube too.

    If you’re interested in having one made, let me know.

    Its possible to create them entirely in Flash too, without the need to download Quicktime, view the high resolution example of the experimental cube.

    Cubic Experiment

    | posted on May 04 2009
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    360, Artwork, Draw, Featured, Installations

    Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult
    -Hippocrates

    Nearly my whole creative experience I have been toying around with virtual spaces and thier exploration. Since I began working in CGI (on the ZX Spectrum VU-3D by Psion March 1983) and then into papercrafting and print techniques, I have been on a mission to merge the crafts and techniques and give the user experience more validity, or basically give the onlooker a super-human power, instead of me, the artist.

    For years I had considered the cinema 360 shows at the seaside and the stereoscopic applications, with red/blue glasses etc. that are familiar, hi-tec experiences you can have in many venues in various cities around the world. Six years ago I hit upon a technique that would replicate, or reverse engineer, the effect of a Quicktime VR movie or QTVR. QTVR’s construct an all around photographic experience from a single viewpoint, in the centre of a cubic space. My thoughts caught fire when I considered that it could be a real cube, and the centre was the natural, average height of a human eye level.

    Click this image to see a small version of the demonstration model that you can print out and make:

    For 6 years I believed the object necessary for this centre was to be 12 foot by 12 foot by 12 foot. Just before I had the oppurtunity to practice the concept, it hit me that the natural centre of a cube, a 5 foot 10 inch person, would require an 11 foot 6 inch cube.

    Rich Holland was the keen craftsman gifted with the task of building the walls and ceiling on the floor of the Wild Building in Birmingham. It took 3 days and over 2000 screws.

    The cube was launched at the preview night on 23rd April. To aid the viewing whilst the door was closed the very able Peter Dixon fitted a pendant 150W lamp 3 foot down from the centre of the ceiling, evenly casting light into the corners of the cube.

    I have to admit to getting a little cabin crazy whilst I worked inside the cube. After a while I was unsure what was the floor, and what I could rest on whilst I worked on the ceiling and floor. The sheer scale was a little ambitious in the timescale of the show, only two weeks to view this manifestation of a crazy idea I had. I hope to return to the next phase and hopefully bring it to London. In the meantime, enjoy a little version I made of it that you can view on-screen (Apple Quicktime required)

    Click on the image(s) below to see the fullscreen 360 degree panorama(s):

    51cube

    http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog/2009/360-degree-51-birmingham/

    Steven James Pratt

  • 51 DEGREES. AUDIO RESPNSIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE.

    CHU ROLLS INTO BIRMINGHAM APRIL 23RD.

    http://www.schudio.co.uk/51/

    New bodies of work on canvas and paper on display in Digbeth, near Birmingham City Centre on Saint George’s day 2009, Thursday April 24th.

    Here’s an extract from the press release:

    Aerosol cans become unstable at 51 degrees, pyramids are built at 51 degrees, secondary rainbows are only visible at 51 degrees, daisies open up to the sun at 51 degrees, and the northern hemisphere begins above the latitude of 51 degrees*. If the graffiti tradition of adopting a number after your tag (similar to Taki 183, from 183rd Street, NYC) then the artist Chu’s number is definitely FIFTY ONE.

    Exploring (literally) new perspectives and embracing computer-aided technologies, Chu’s work has continued to push back the boundaries of graffiti since he first began experimenting with aerosol paint & home computers in the late 1980’s describing his creations as gently reminding us of the everyday conflict between digital and analogue devices.

    This new collection charts a journey in the UK from the town of Walsall to the city of Birmingham, along the A34 road, the flagship route for bus number 51. 12 new paintings and simultaneous, limited edition, screen print releases will be shown alongside a warehouse space containing an installation created specifically for this long awaited comeback show.

    I’ll be displaying all of the studio work I’ve created over the last 12 months, along with a few new vibes aswell. I’ve been working a lot more with tricks-of-the-eye, illusion and site-specific works, aswell as canvases and designs for print.

    http://www.schudio.co.uk/51/

    Steven James Pratt

  • M.C. Escher and Finnegans Wake & MONK

    In searching for visual metaphors for Joyce’s master-built – Finnegans Wake – the great master of impossible objects to the eye – M.C Escher stands as a near perfect puzzle fit. If the word were able to be broken down into the 17 wallpaper – tessilations – then Finnegans Wake would be the SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC – the deployment of all wallpapers within a laboratory space – investigating and remixing itself, turning the world inside out, upside down with mathematical precision. Making the impossible equations of Quantum Mechanics and the newer fields of Consciousness studies into new MAPS, CHARTS, DIAGRAMS and TOOLS. With which to make further readings with.

    Searching for M.C. Escher by name in Finnegans Wake turns up such possible – mini impossible ESCHER DRAMAS – made more probable by Joyce – such as:

    “Fortissa, that Honuphrius has blasphemously confessed under
    voluntary chastisement that he has instructed his slave, Mauritius, to
    ur;,e Magravius, a commercial, emulous of Honuphrius, to solicit
    the chastity of Anita. Anita is informed by some illegitimate
    children of Fortissa with Mauritius (the supposition is Ware’s)
    that Gillia, the schismatical wife of Magravius, is visited
    clandestinely by Barnabas, the advocate of Honuphrius, an immoral
    person who has been corrupted by Jeremias. — J.J. F.W.     P 572.

    “Of course, my
    pledge between us, there’s no-one Noel like him here to
    hear. Esch so eschess, douls a doulse! — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, 588.

    That’s the point of eschatology our book of kills reaches
    for now in soandso many counterpoint words. What can’t be
    coded can be decorded if an ear aye sieze what no eye ere grieved
    for. — J.J, F.W. P. 482.

    “He beached the bark of his tale; and set to husband and vine:
    and the harpermaster told all the living conservancy, know
    Meschiameschianah, how that win a gain was in again. — J.J, F.W    . p. 358

    I’ll leave the rest to the imagination. Google Escher, look at his work, now read some of Finnegans Wake – and maybe even listen to some Theolonious MONK.

    Steven James Pratt

  • GA is for GRAFFITI ABORTISEMENT

    GRAFFABORTISEMENT!

    “There are doubtless millions of people that are fascinated by the technical prowess and exacting graphic skill of one, Maurits Cornelis Escher. His imagination captured mine at a very early age, probably the first visual art that actually grabbed my deficient attention. I developed an early interest in mathematics, no doubt assisted by the many wonderful prints that Maurits would labour over tirelessly. I have been considering ‘remixing’ his work for years, and its eventually come to pass. I’m working on a set of three tributes. ‘Writing Hands’ is also a tribute to the world of graffiti WRITERS, part of a new campaign ‘Human Writes’ aswell – although it seemed pretty obvious to substitute the drawing pens with a marker and an aerosol can, the execution was purposefully loose. — CHU http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog/2009/m-c-escher-tribute-2-of-3/

    Some Aerosol Graffiti Artists’ manifest “imposseeblu” objects, sombunall based on alphabetical forms. Some BURST others bust! Graffiti Artist.n.t – blowing up – Alphabits with wind and semantext & putting word and world back together, back on the wall humpty fell from. Repairing the great language crash of 2009. Some Impossible lettengineers pay structural tribute to M.C Esher. Some experimental ASTRACTIVISTS use& Gurilla attack systems of Graffiti application, and deployment, adding to the information quotent within the surprise = information equation. span style=”font-size:130%;”> CHU‘s latest TRILOGY are a self-described “tribute to M.C ESCHER and GRAFFITI ARTISTS worldwide.” Parts 1 & 2 have been deployed already – we await the 3’rd. Waterfalls? 3 cubes? Mobius Strip II?

    Bebop turned Broadway upside down. Graffiti Art and has turned the modern ART Gallery INSIDE OUT. The streets have become galleries, again. With hidden treasure and tales for attentive observers. Publik Big Brother public amuses himself, themself and itself. Most Graffiti Artists have an inbred rejection of faux icons and defend the word-world by perpetually turning things inside out. Outside in. Like the experience a witnessing an Escher world view.
    Pirating instruments and techniques to decorate and reconstruct environments, out smarting culture vulture by decades. Aeons. Some Graffiti ARTISTS in 2009 are on the cusp of putting some meaning back into HUMAN RIGHTS with HUMAN WRITES. Making sense of a topsy turvey world, faux Image, woided-word and manipulated meaning – hijacked by the greed monsters, Advertising execorpses, Vulture Ministers and Whig Botherhood. Spin doctored. Antidoted by GRAFFABORTISEMENT! CHUSIDEOUT.

    —Fly Agaric 23. 7th Feb. 2009. 1.50. Amsterdam. Netherlands. Listening to John Coltrane Ballads.

    Notes and LINKS of interest:

    “flip yourself head over heels, as if swinging over a waist-high horizontal bar in front of you. Now your heart is on the same side as the mirror-person’s heart-but your feet and head are in the wrong places, and your stomach, although at approximately the right height, is upsidedown. So it seems a mirror can be perceived as reversing up and down, provided you’re willing to map yourself onto a creature whose feet are above its head. It all depends on the ways that you are willing to slip yourself onto another entity. — Douglas Hofstader. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (co-edited with Daniel Dennett)”

    “If a nonspinning inertial observer looks along his axis of symmetry, he sees his coaxial nonspinning inertial peers apparently nonspinning with respect to himself, as we would expect. – Godel_metric

    “QIUP – Quantum Inseparability Principle, named by Nick Herbert: the impossibility of existentially separating observer and observed. –- Dr. Robert Anton Wilson Quantum Psychology. New Falcon Press. Page. 107.

    “I also updated the piece to depict a modern market area, a supermarket or shopping mall, filled with glass panels (shamelessly achieved by the use of a paper edge). Instead of the three views culminating in exit points to organic backgrounds or nature, I chose to make the whole space an interior, with backgrounds of a shop, car park and a public sliding-door entrance. The figures are also modernised; cash machine, struggling pensioners, drunks, maintenance orderly and shoppers. — http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog/2009/m-c-escher-tribute-2-of-3

    “as if everything were not in displacement, detour, transference, metaphor everything is in the love potion of seduction… —Jean Baudrillard writes in Dust Breeding, 2001.

    “We used to think that physics described the Universe. Now we know that physics only describes what we can say about the Universe. — Niels Bohr. Quoted from “Quantum Psychology. RAW.”

    “The matrix is the kind of film about the matrix that the Matrix could have produced — Jean Baudrillard.

    “Consciousness is not only a way out of the evolutionary impasse, says Hilbrandt, but also an escape from the snares of Godelization, for by means of paralogistic contradictions this solution has sidestepped the contradictions to which every system that is perfect with respect to logic is subject. So, then, the universum of the personoids is fully rational, but they are not fully rational inhabitants of it. — “Non Serviam” from A Perfect Vacuum: Perfect Reviews of Nonexistent Books by Stanislaw Lem. Copyright 1971 by Stanislaw Lem; English translation copyright 1979, 1978 by Stanislaw Lem, Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.”

    Steven James Pratt

  • C is for CHU: Painted Plane

    Sea’in and not-seen,
    from the nozzel to object
    & knu end language of gas ungrasspalpabble.
    GAS bag of AEROSOUL beyond…Chuscape’t.

    Wind and stars. Fillamint-buster and the firm-cement. Spewing gas but some froth and cake’t up swirl of pigment. Congress. Vortexture of cream.

    Yes. Cherry Peppermint swirl, Jungle Lozenge mumint, See weed green with blush.As seen from a Nozzle head of the game at hand.

    Objects hunted down AND NEUTRALIZED. CornersRemoved, adjusted, arranged according to the

    CHUSCAPE 360 exit’Planet Graffiti Mustards. Skeye Socket, pivot, ball and fully flexi jointed. Perceptual waltz into and out of that word..Corpse-
    manure on the lips of the Literati. What IS and ISN’T? Litres of spit-atoms brew nothing NEW on TV? swatches? The Great Lie, Con,

    Insider trade and perceptual coersionYes. The great spirit of Illusion.

    Cracked open and caked to our faces. Deception turned into ART Mask and Anti ART Mask Painted Plane, painted banking towers.

    Painted cardboard people.Nozzle-view sees through that, and through timespice pace pace. Masking, anti-masking the delightful environmint,

    YOUCAN – You are the Nozzle of perception. Just spew it.

    Paint seas of snot green. Papermunt Origreeny Hulk.
    Cream cake of Nozzle clog residua – spurts rusty cherry bombsLike a Jam donut explosion, cap switch switch.

    And the picture has not yet even fully taken shape, even, as, i write this.Chuscaprism from Alphabeta v 1.0

    I painted, from one viewpoint, a CHUSCAPE vision of an aeroplane engine falling
    through the roof of the bar. –CHU

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  • R is for RETAIL ACTIVITY (alphabeta transliteration v1.0)

    RETAIL ACTIVITY, a aerosol painting on canvas by CHU.
    Fly Agaric Xpandjin’ the context, into alphabeta. Feedback loops.
    2009/6002 upsidedown…

    Some changed (REMI’T) terms: FREE MARKET – FREEDOM TO MARK IT’ WITH GRAFFITI – CAPITALISM – AEROSOL CAP’ USED TO DIFFUSE COLOUR – CONSPIRACY – COMING TOGETHER OF ONE OR MORE FORCES – ART – INSIDER TRADE.
    Americana paint PAWD over Disneylyed
    A new window into the reality of NOW. Fake simulations.
    Your culture today? Virtual Cultural Jocking by the major crim’ syndacate
    ARTIST buying time for the audience to buy themselves out. Degrading the consumer
    By degrading the product.

    “Will art have the right to a second, interminable existence, like the
    secret services that, as we know, haven’t had any secrets to steal or exchange
    for some time but who still continue to flourish in utter superstition of their
    usefulness, perpetuating their own myth. — Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art.
    1996.

    Turning the shopper into shop. Nouns into stone. Grey wall. Yes. No. Mighta’…
    Retail Activity Infinite stupidity of consumer.
    Insider grey shady trade wall.
    Supermarket sweep-up.
    CCTV, Banking, shopping, to infinity.

    “The “stereo” effect of verse is not merely one of simultaneous stimulation of
    two different brain areas, but also the result of a necessary integrative
    collaboration and feedback between them. – Frederick Turner. Space and Time in
    Chinese Verse.

    Admidst all this con.crete money and fuzzy sign and
    symbol maze making, words of support are few and far between.
    Artists illegalized, jailed, punished, fined, criminalized.
    Meanwhile the .GOV hand and purse is busy snatching everything – the artists
    and creatives have made, slithering off…
    and retailing them…exchange for cultural credibility.
    Grafitti remains ILLEGAL in most countries. 2009!
    Remixing environmental scene into new semantic maps.
    Accents and interpretations, reflections. Yes. Fresh and improvisational as jazz
    Already spanning over 300 languages worldwide and growing.
    Aerosol Graffiti ART: giant monster gas everywhere & nowhere. Like TAO.
    The last child sitting at his art desk is still smiling.

    “Greenburg had always argued that the Old Masters, the classic 3-D realists, had
    created “an illusion of space into which one could imagine oneself walking. –Tom
    Wolfe, The Painted Word.

    1975. Black Swan. pg. 78.
    “RETAIL ACTIVITY” ripples off the tongue, out through the corridoors
    The passageways RETAIL ACTIVITY! Like a track title to a musical masterpiece, yes.
    The words given to a painting deserve close study.
    Fossilized poems and the doors to epiphany.
    RETAIL ACTIVITY. The recycling of the market economy?
    The impossible reality. Retail ART market.
    The labrynth ambiguity that haunts every shop.
    The virus of language munching down the gates of market.
    Retail intersection point. Mauled perception.
    More image and more simulation, the more illusion power. yes.
    Whose Buying all the images. THINGNESS virus on the loose. “Isness is an Illness.”
    New retail activity in new ways of seeing
    New ways of percieving, tools and windows and glosses
    To reflect, amplify, redirect energy. Yes.
    And provide – transparancy – the great gift of reflection.
    RETAIL ACTIVITY MAXIMUS.

    “Art has become involved (not only from the financial point of view of the art
    market, but in the very management of aesthetic values) in the general process
    of insider trading. Art is not alone: Politics, economics, the news all benefit
    from the same complicity and ironic resignation from their consumers. –Jean
    Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art. 1996.”

    “Retail Activity” Punning heavily on RELATIVITY.
    Chu = mc esher squared.
    Capturing (SNAP) the NULL state of the art.
    Mediocrity squared.
    RECYCLING of the empty promise – Clang
    The Global market retail activity bubble, doors shut! sale’s over.
    PO PART! without warning of the imminent BURST/BUST recurse of language.
    ART, what, art. What deception game
    ART MACHINE industry kickin’ over. Non-Riemann turnover.
    Into a happy new gear.
    Painter and the media journalist wrestle. word/image. TV/Internet.
    The marketear from the EYE corp., plays ref.
    Godel and Escher and Bach screw into retail activity. Restoration of culture.

    “It’s a facet of my mathematical ways, it’s all based on your point-of-view. By
    continuing a line up a wall onto the ceiling you can delete corners and make the
    ceiling disappear, depending on where you’re standing.” -chu

    WITHIN THE KERNAL OF THE OLD SOCIETY.
    Building upon scaffolding of new perception.
    Our surrounding archetecture is a partial reflection
    of the economic infrastructure.
    Boom and Bust. Insider trade in word and image.
    As Joyce’s Wake and Escher’s hand in it.
    Bloom and burst! Times of rapid growth and expansion for some,
    Spaces of contraction and dismemberment for many
    The Market Economy.
    ARTISTS chose a different way. Every time. Gurrantea’d.
    But not turning the cheek but returning the cheek. Balancing the equation.

    ”and then, having succeeded admirably, you ask with a sense of
    see-what-i-mean? outrage: look, they don’t even buy our products! (Usually
    referred to as “quality art.”) The art world had been successfully restricted to
    about 10′000 souls worldwide, the beaux monded of a few metropolises. Of these,
    perhaps no more than 300 – worldwide – bought current work (this year’s, last
    year’s, the year-before’s) with any regularity; of these, perhaps 90 lived in
    the United States. — Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word. 1975. Black Swan. pg.
    67-68.

    Retail Activity, the painting by CHU sums up & balances down equations vs. Shopping.
    Aerosol Graffiti Art becomes indistinguishable from Magic.
    Wimbledonization of our culture, art and music
    Outernational finance strategy, made up by some dotty umpire.
    Wimbledonization: (hosting the fattest, richest,
    foreign – Casinocrats – at the expense of our own talent. )
    British Art and Culture, how is it moderated? World Art?
    Who and how? manipulated to suit whom? Retale’s wagging.
    The world wall – itself – in the ACTIVITY of retail.
    The myriad of reflection spaces of RETAIL of word and image to infinity.

    Dudley M. Burroughs – (Chief Commissioner of Sewers)

    M. C. Escher tribute (2 of 3)

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    Originals, Shows, Video

    After producing ‘Writing Hands’ I ventured deeper into the world of distorting the viewpoints, a thought process in two dimensional works that Escher is possibly most famous for. His lithograph entitled ‘Relativity’ was the next piece that I chose to remix.

    In these days of economic crisis I also updated the piece to depict a modern market area, a supermarket or shopping mall, filled with glass panels (shamelessly achieved by the use of a paper edge). Instead of the three views culminating in exit points to organic backgrounds or nature, I chose to make the whole space an interior, with backgrounds of a shop, car park and a public sliding-door entrance.

    The figures are also modernised; cash machine, struggling pensioners, drunks, maintenance orderly and shoppers. The perspectives got a little more funked-up, and the piece also has 15% value added (the original lithograph is square) accommodating the landscape proportion of the canvas.

    The construction is visible in a short stop-frame video i produced to animate the process.

    Steven James Pratt