This week I started to wind back the doctorate. People tell me there is no shame in going part time, in fact the research office were very supportive about not trying to work 70+ hours a week. December 2011 was utterly miserable (it included Death, Taxes and a healthy helping of Walls) and I can’t [...]
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{opmitter}– lost battle / winning the war?
May 5th, 2012 · No Comments · Opmitter
Tags: research·television·Thesis
At the heart of Visual Music is…
November 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Opmitter
Thanks to people for the sympathy for the olds. But they passed on a month or so ago (obits take time to write) and I think they were unhappy waiting for the inevitable. So, better to have moved on. Unfortunately the “Rosabelle believe” signal that was to be sent back has failed to appear, possibly [...]
No one gives a damn about your PhD
October 17th, 2011 · Comments Off · Opmitter, Ranting
First of all two notes. THIS COMING WEEKEND WE PLAY AT THE JOAN SUTHERLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE AND THEN NOT AGAIN! SO BRING YOUR TROUSERS! Also Thanks to Image Line for sending me a review copy of Groove Machine. I will write about it next time! All bribes always welcome! Leaders in science fiction books [...]
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Doctorate Update <— poem
June 14th, 2011 · Comments Off · Opmitter
Time for a updocdate! So at the end of year one I had a structure that went like this: An Artist encodes their personality into the character of the artwork through a process of mimesis. The artwork can then be decoded by a receiver by use of a shared code, which is art culture. What [...]
Mime artist
June 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Opmitter
Deeper into the rabbit hole this week trying to build a connection between Personality (of the artist) and Character (of the artwork). I’ve already discussed some of the points that have to be explained (while acknowledging the explanation is not yet there.) The last question was – by what means is a personality encoded in [...]
Can an Artwork have (a) Personality?
May 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Opmitter
(taken from my Sensible Blog) Can an artwork have (a) personality? Such a simple question offers such terrible hidden dangers. There are at least three. Firstly, the definition of ‘artwork’ is very difficult, based upon the definition of art, perhaps fine art. Slightly less problematic is ‘personality’. Attached to that is a third danger; the [...]