daxa

IN CONCERT Rainfear Meets DAXA Uptown at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in January 2017. A gig accompanied by a video screening programme and a zine.   PRESENTATION Presentation at D.A.T.A. in December 2016. I described the system’s roots in various earlier electronic musical performance and editing systems and my ideas for its architecture. I also

civilisation

“Most of our intelligence is not in our brain, it is externalized as our civilization. It’s not just that our bodies, senses, and environment determine how much intelligence our brains can develop — crucially, our biological brains are just a small part of our whole intelligence. Cognitive prosthetics surround us, plugging into our brain and extending its

buildings

Some scans from the book Buildings and Power by Thomas A. Markus showing his graph representations of building topologies and how they relate to their plans. These are scans from Part III of the book, Buildings and Knowledge, which deals with building typologies associated with the production and storage of knowledge, buildings as cognitive prosthetics.

flow

“You are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don’t exist. I have experienced this time and again. My hand seems devoid of myself, and I have nothing to do with what is happening. I just sit there watching it in a state of awe and wonderment.