Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0512171227180.27081@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: beauty
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:28:14 -0500 (EST)
beauty http://www.asondheim.org/contour1.gif http://www.asondheim.org/contour2.gif http://www.asondheim.org/contour3.gif http://www.asondheim.org/contour4.gif http://www.asondheim.org/contour5.gif http://www.asondheim.org/contour6.gif http://www.asondheim.org/contour7.gif http://www.asondheim.org/contour8.gif sin(tan(x)) or tan(tan(x)) never fail to excite my imagination as these simplest of functions tend towards machinic limits in graphic calculation; there's no end to 'em but there's always an end to 'em dependent on the machine/algorithm. i suppose the calculation could be carried out indefinitely just like the raster here supported from 20-400 could be downed to the pixel, but then what? everything else is either force or averaging. one's caught in the usual digital trap, that what is of interest must be evidenced within a bandwidth that most likely has little relation to what's of interest. the bars keep information out, peripheral or problematic information, troubling information, alterity. w/in these images/imaginaries, nothing more than that, alterity comes back, corrodes, with a vengeance, but not really; the merging of the two produces beauty which is always the case.