Dirk Vekemans
Since 2005
Works in Kessel-Lo Belgium

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born in 1962 in Lier, Belgium.
studied filology at Louvain, Belgium.

worked a lot in bars and restaurants before i became obsessivly addicted to producing stuff on computers.

i once won a design contest of cgi-magazine and they let me go to New York for four days, that was nice.

i think in terms of writing mostly (or programming, but those are very similar processes for me)

painting is a very different process and i'm very bad at it but i do it anyway because i like the differences it produces and i like the freshness of amateurism, i guess.

what i produce new media-wise is also very much influenced by my daily practice of webdesign and programming with its concerns of usability and the pragmatic approach it implies.

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PROMISE OF FRIENDSHIP
IN BREAKING ENGLISH

oder dieses blog got abstracted out of its bloggishness

a running turkey-dv collab at http://nkdee.blogspot.com/

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

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the hole of shitty ars
is runnin boohoo to mummy
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words by noname written
foto's by nooname taken
basics by Donne done
Cathedral by Cathedral-Mother while studying the Cathedral noted

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

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Re: Re: Re: considering abstraction in digital art?


In other words, if u want:

"The mind, whether expressed in history or in the individual life, has a
precise movement, which can be quickened or slackened but cannot be
fundamentally altered, and this movement can be expressed by a mathematical
form."

WB Yeats (cfr http://socialfiction.org/gettags.php?tagski=Yeats&submit=send)

In dealing with abstraction (searching within, building on...)you're always
dealing with the human:

when it's "bad" digital abstraction is a further _mechanising_ of the
human, the kind of observing acts that, as an interference, is inescapably a
humanisation of the virtual, the abstract observing the abstracting if you
want. The result is contraction, general collaps, reduction of the reduced,
tagging the tagged. A general arrest of consciousness. (sh)It matters,
naturally.

when it's "good" digital abstraction could be offering sideway glances of
the a-human. Imho that can only be achieved by a _machinisation_ of the
poetic (we're too silly to get there ourselves -our consciousness doesn't
allow too much exposure etc). The result would be an opening, an explosion
of the captivated, a freeing of energies, a general leakage of the Real.
(sh)It happens, accidently.

The good and the bad are performing a continuous dance, exchanging vip-cards
on the net so to speak, but it seems, eventually, there's a rather annoying
lack of good around.

But then, ofcourse, there will always be the ugly.

dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]
> Namens Dirk Vekemans
> Verzonden: vrijdag 21 april 2006 11:25
> Aan: 'curt cloninger'; list@rhizome.org
> Onderwerp: RE: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: considering abstraction
> in digital art?
>
>
> aka measurement is interference (procedure of quantum
> mechanics) aka abstract is a bad question (posing as an
> answer, so people question it) aka distinction is no really
> is (all i see is pixels on a screen)
>
> +
>
> chair is a word. How does one ever get to sit on a word? I
> think of fr flesh while i ait that (untsoweiter)
>
> Hence: correlating (atom-eating) through cycles of
> differentiating>interrupting>differenciating picking up cycles of...
>
> Net-art (or nAart or whatever) as the flux defined by the
> rhytmical construct grid>absence>grid
>
> my 2bit or what you make of it,
> dv
>
>
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] Namens
> > curt cloninger
> > Verzonden: vrijdag 21 april 2006 10:15
> > Aan: list@rhizome.org
> > Onderwerp: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Re: considering abstraction in digital
> > art?
> >
> > Hi Nad,
> >
> > I don't think he's speaking philosophically. He's speaking
> in terms
> > of abstract forms vs. figurative forms. If you zoom in on a human
> > form, eventually you get to a scale that makes that form
> abstract. If
> > you zoom out from a human form, the same thing happens.
> Think of the
> > Eames powers of 10 movie.
> >
> > http://www.powersof10.com/
> >
> > http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
> >
> > curt
> >
> > +++++
> >
> > @Curt
> >
> > >I've been fascinated by the idea that there is really no
> > distinction --
> > >>it's just a question of scale. (matthew ritchie)
> >
> > ??????? this makes no sense to me. What do you think how he meant
> > that?
> > How do you apply that for example if you do the abstraction from
> > "chair" (meaning the actual thing*) to "chair" (meaning the
> > abstraction as a "thing which can be used for sitting")??
> >
> > (*like chair as in a chinese restaurant for eating hot and
> sour soup
> > :-))
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Re: Re: considering abstraction in digital art?


> I posted this link already on rhizome, but may be you missed
> it, its an example of what#s on the way:
> http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/latest_research/2006/20060210/200
> 60210.html
>
> and well finally -"one" can already now walk around an object
> as an avatar in virtual 3D space (e.g. on the internet).
>

The fact that it uses afterlight (our mental, cognitive process of making
sense of stimuli _after_ they have happened) as a means of visualisation is
imho a vital part in figuring out *what* we'll actually be walking around.
It seems it's in the interfering part ( a continuous actualisation of waves
collapsing to fact, after the fact) that this technology truly gets
revolutionary.

dv