shobhan was kind enough to hear me ramble for an hour, and then we went back & forth for an hour until i hit important realizations.
to see:
- can we create new senses? — david eagleman.
- the information — james gleick.
- there’s no doubt about it — hans christian andersen.
- gendarmenmarkt.
- generative participatory installations — studio moniker.
- logic-based drawing exercises — studio moniker.
- entropy.
we both realized that i was saying the same thing over & over again in different words. that made me feel pathetic (wrote self-deprecating afterwards).
main points:
from shobhan’s ‘staging an experience’:
my starting point right now is ‘effect’. my brain is hit with the shiny new technology. however, all my strongest work — including the recent emergence work & processing community day 2026 talk — began with affect: an emotion that people could resonate with.
we then spoke about why i’m doing what i’m doing:
and eventually arrived at why expressive work is important (for me):
it helps me move further in my journey of experiencing a feeling (unblocks). good artistic effort does the same for others.
mimi, shobhan, gwen are right — why should anyone care?
some other points:
- giving concrete examples for abstract things.
- might consider the term translation -> transmission → loss & interference.
- is loss negative? sometimes interpretation 'loss' might find ground for new conversations. something ryan also mentioned.
- sound -> reflex action | sight -> interpret -> make meaning -> action.
- could i introduce entropy?