implicit art

Check out this
fantastic essay about the politics of imagination, Mark Shuttleworth and the
African diaspora.
serial faces page, new statements (both written) and a re-organized gallery
should be up by week’s end. For real :)
It was Memorial Day in my home country yesterday, so I had a beer in the early
afternoon to celebrate. Ah, the benefits of being a freelance lecturer/artist/designer.
More Matrix:
If Agent Smith can download his "essence" into a human mind and then
exist in the real world, can humans go the other way around? In Matrix 1, Morpheus
says, "The body cannot exist without the mind." What about the opposite?
Can the mind exist without the body? (Editor’s note: for an interesting discourse
on this question, see Lakoff’s Philosophy in the Flesh and other published
works. I ask it now merely in relation to the Matrix.)
Can not a human, before their body expires, download their mind as software and
exist as the Oracle does, just a posthuman processor, in The Matrix? At some
point, the Merovingian’s ill-treated partner mutters, "He used to be like
you," to Neo. Could the Architect have lied about all former One’s making
the choice they were supposed to? Could the Merovingian have been One of the
"more respectful predecessors," perhaps choosing to remain a powerful
entity inside The Matrix instead of restarting Zion?