Tony Lopez

What of the world do we make for ourselves? Each experience connected to the last and linked to the next. Personal, private culture updated by the second. Reinventing our past in relation to our now-now-now-now-now and generating the future.

Our new machines give us the opportunity to immerse ourselves in their cultural neutrality, to be in a private space where we can simultaneously observe and create our own aesthetic experience free from implied meaning, purpose or motivation.

By their modification and adaptation, they are synchronised with our many evolutions and in their unorthodox use may facilitate the opening of new paths to our own self-awareness as we perceive and are reflected in their processes.

Adapting computers to randomly generate familiar themes infinitely varied in their subtle, unique differences.

Adapting electronic printing devices to randomly archive fleeting moments that serve as wall-objects recorded for posterity and our great grandchildren's reaction, disposal, reinterpretation, reassimilation perhaps.

Adapting Electro-mechanical devices and redefining their operation, looking at the by-products of their dysfunction.

These devices are my abstraction of all nature and things known/unknown.

We know conceptually that a wave may break, a leaf might fall and a cloud can form but when? Where? How? (But in this case not-why?)

These machines have no god, borders, morality, self or purpose and the rest of it but peculiarly and of primary interest, I have (and in this case-why?).

International Business Machine running FLYBY animation

2002, Revealed Computer (450x300mm)

How might choice and chance be affecting seeing and being sand to what extent are my language 'thoughtfeelings' culturally conditioned?
Am I fundamentally and immutably predisposed, not 'who am I, where am I going?' but 'am I going where who I am?'.
Could there be an immunity from finding meaning, a neutrality of perception, a wall-object?

How might choice and chance be affecting seeing and being?
here, conscious actionand conscious inaction represent choice.
Unconscious action and unconscious inaction, their influence on all things being unknown, might be chance.
The red line, 'subjective perception of position relative to all things' is the interpretation over a period of time of our 'being' on our surroundings (all things) or 'what am I happening to?'.
The black dot, 'actual position and all things' might be the unknown consequence of our unconscious actions and inactions on our surroundings (all things) or 'what's happening to me?'.

To what extent are my language 'thoughtfeelings' culturally conditioned?
The black dot, 'CONCEPT MOMENT' refers here to a triggering of associative meaning by sensations at a point in time.
The blue line 'EXTENT AND ORIENTATION OF REACTION' shows the relative magnitude of diametrically opposed 'thoughtfeelings' caused by 'CONCEPT MOMENT' in terms of positive or negative, 'GOOD' or 'BAD' and shown in the above view as adjacent but unconnected. To move between these two states lies the possibility of finding 'GOOD AND BAD' as either the position 'both good and bad' or neutral 'neither good nor bad'.
The orange scale 'EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL CONCEPTS' is the flow of time and in this case involves the sensed triggers: RAIN, TORTOISE, ANAL, FALLING, TERROR, BACKWARDS, SEE, HAVE, WALL, SOMETIMES, CLEVERLY.

Am I fundamentally and immutably predisposed, not 'who am I, where am I going?' but 'am I going where who I am?'.
I was going out but I was delayed and then I heard a noise from downstairs, my neighbours, in a public display of emotion, were beating each other up.
What conscious/unconscious choices did I make that put me in the place to see this happening? Are the same conscious/unconscious choices in use all the time?
Might anyone be sensitive to things that were thought of as outside their control (chance) and were in fact affecting subconscious decisions?
Have we self-censored the extent of our personal responsibilty for our surroundings (all things) distributing experiences into culturally conditioned active-passive and conveniently unexplored, abstruse grey areas of existence.
If we can know our program, can we change it?

Could there be an immunity from finding meaning, a neutrality of perception, a wall-object?