I haven’t really had a lot of time to write blog posts, but I wanted to quickly update you on a few things.
Final animation:
For those who haven’t allready seen it. Here’ the link to the final version of the Asymmetrical Synchronicity Conjecture:
http://www.epochapex.com/dynamic/?q=node/81
There are some updated design projects on my website now:
Epochapex Design
http://www.epochapex.com/dynamic/?q=view/design
This is one of my latest drawings, which I intend to turn into a painting. It’s a loose allegory of a bureaucratic change - the geometric primitives represent organizational structures and the organic elements suggest a sweeping motion.
The following is the latest write-up about the Asymmetrical Synchronicity Conjecture. It’s the basis for a much more thought-out approach to explaining this strange art piece.
Asymmetrical Synchronicity Conjecture
• Subject pole: receptor hydrostats, intake of assumptions
• Object pole: intersecting curves of probability
• Diagnostic Husk: blocks analysis from subjective viewpoint
The Asymmetrical Synchronicity Conjecture is a set of diametrically opposed poles contained in one object. On one side there is the subject-pole and on the other there’s the object-pole. There is also the Diagnostic Husk which blocks the viewer’s “mind’s eye”.
The Asynchonje (Asymmetrical Synchronicity Conjecture) is an ideogram for the human capacity to take in a multiplicity of assumptions about a given life-event and composes it into a monad.
How is it that we form imaginary tracts of events – what-ifs, regrets, hypothetical subjunctives? What is the drive for humans to compose hypothetical events into a unity and act so that one becomes a reality?
This object is a prop for manipulating our destiny and a visual aphorism that is meant to stimulate thought.
Asymmetrical Synchronicity Conjecture Animation Rough Draft
In looking at our own ideas intimately we may become conscious of suggestions of shapes hidden in propositions. The most obvious example is Aristotle’s square of logic. There are many examples of logical forms in an argument where a certain arrangement of predicates and subjects amongst propositions produces a form.
More interesting examples reside in the non-rational aspects of mental activity. Sensations, intuitions, emotions and spirit are all equally valid and important aspects of mental constitution. These do not lend themselves as easily as logical propositions to expression via words and often are not even expressed but only reside inside a person. I call these ‘non-logical propositions’, similar to Propositional Attitudes. They make up the majority of mental activity and compose our inner ideology of persuasive sincere insight.
These entities suggest form as well – moreover a series of interlocking forms that make up various ‘thought-objects’. These forms are not ideal forms in the sense of Plato’s definition, but rather mental analogues which express the non-logical propositions.
Having had an inside glimpse of things, I know that Canada is a topia - not a utopia and not a dystopia. It shares something from both concepts: the fact that the political structures in place don’t ever change. Although that property isn’t ingrained in the idea of a utopia or dystopia, in the examples given in literature (1984, Brave New World), those societies never change.
One only needs to look at the last Ontario election to see that when change is presented (i.e. electoral reform referendum), the public is even more apathetic as indicated by the lowest voter turnout on record.
So I haven’t posted on my blog for many months. I know it’s kind of disappointing, but I’ve been really busy.
In the past few months I’ve:
All this stuff has kept me from blogging, especially working in front of the computer again for 8 hrs/day.
I’m much closer to where I want to be in life, but there’s still a few more shuffles of the deck required before I end up with the job and living arrangements I truely want. I know that in due time these things will work out.
Look out for my next animation project - this one is going to level the foundations of consciousness itself and build an ediface of creativity over the ruins of dogmatism.
~Gavin
Here’s the original concept sketch:
These are two rendering experiments:
I’m revisiting the World of the Thought-Objects as a much bigger and ambitious art project, one which brings together philosophy information design and animation.
The one above deals with the theme of struggle - the dominator attacking the subjugated object, which has it’s defense mechanisms. I’m still developing the jargon library to explicate the structures involved.
