http://darrentofts.net Writer and Academic Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:04:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lisa Gye & Darren Tofts The Secret Gestural Prehistory of Mobile Devices is cultural anthropology. It seeks to recover those moments of intuitive prehensile dexterity, when the famous and the ordinary alike felt the unconscious desire to occupy their hands for an as yet unknown purpose. Like Roy Neary's obsession with ... http://darrentofts.net/?p=22   Image: Nina Sellars, Ear on Arm (2008). Reproduced courtesy Nina Sellars. "Interiors": Essay on George Bataille’s notions of pornography and the sacral in relation to Nina Sellars’ photographs of Stelarc’s Extra Ear surgery, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris and Perry Ogden’s photographs of Francis Bacon’s studio. An unwitting allegory of post-humanism, ... http://darrentofts.net/?p=21   Dialogue between Stelarc's Prosthetic Head (and his alter ego, Facetted Head) and Murray McKeich's p-zombie. H+ Magazine H+ covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways. p-z:   What are you reading at the moment? PH:  Russell’s Analysis of Mind. p-z:   Which ... http://darrentofts.net/?p=20   "What Now? The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix" Issue 15 of Fibreculture Journal Edited by Darren Tofts, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Christian McCrea, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne From the Editorial Introduction: The Downfall meme is a portrait in miniature of the doxa of contemporary remix; namely, the collaborative, socially-networked taste for creatively manipulating ... http://darrentofts.net/?p=19 What happens when mediated entities obtain agency and operate beyond our control? Seminar paper on the philosophical notion of the p-zombie in relation to the recent generative art of Murray McKeich.  SOLID STATES/LIQUID OBJECTS:DISCOURSES OF MEDIATIONA one-day international symposium19 August 2009, 10am - 4.15pm http://www.ninasellars.com/symposium http://darrentofts.net/?p=18   Essay on plagiarism, poststructuralism and the condemnation of Socrates In Plagiarism! (From Work to Détournement) edited by Niall Lucy & John Kinsella A special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 14, 1 (2009).  Now available: http://darrentofts.net/?p=17 ZOSO documentation updated in Projects The world will be transformed to the power of 666. http://darrentofts.net/?p=16   Essay on Sue McCauley's and Keith Deverill's Rear Window In Rear Window the mysterious radiance of the epiphany may well be the most recent technique to emerge in the visual language of the moving image.   Its simple poetry of manifestation and evanescence, of gradual fading out of and towards a vanishing ... http://darrentofts.net/?p=14   Essay on George Bataille's notions of pornography and the sacral in relation to Nina Sellars' photographs of Stelarc's Extra Ear surgery, Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris and Perry Ogden's photographs of Francis Bacon's studio. An unwitting allegory of post-humanism, “Rock DJ” segues into metaphysics as a commentary on the ascendance of a ... http://darrentofts.net/?p=15   Exhibition Catalogue Essay In the age of mobility, the next killer app won’t be a gadget but a wireless capable organ “for other bodies in other places, enabling people to locate and listen to another body elsewhere”.   Stelarc Scott Livesey Gallery 909A High Street, Armadale. August 5-29, 2009 http://www.scottliveseygalleries.com/ http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/ http://darrentofts.net/?p=13