Life is probably everywhere
I wrote down some predictions about life in the solar system, so I can measure my predictions against what our robot probes find in the future.
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Departing Squarespace
After writing earlier this year that I was moving my website back to Squarespace, I changed my mind and rebuilt it in Hugo.
read more…Return to Squarespace
After a few years using a self-hosted Jekyll site I’ve returned to Squarespace because it means I don’t have to spend any time remembering how my self-hosted site was configured.
read more…Rescue Mission
For thousands of years, the red planet has called out to us. The call is subtle, and strong. We tell ourselves that its red colour fascinates us, but the call is deeper and more urgent than humans can know. It resonates our cell membranes and haunts the dreams of mitochondria. The whales sing, sleepily, of the call from beyond the world. Baking in the sun, the snakes imagine sliding in the sands of the planet that has almost forgotten water.
read more…DIY Signals to Outer Space
As part of the MAASive Lates: Digital Futures event, I ran a workshop with Dr Josh Wodak exploring a futuristic scenario where participants had the opportunity to have their own say in the contents of a message sent to an extraterrestrial civilisation.
read more…Half of the Pair
Slow Burn
I’ll be showing Gravity Well at Kudos Gallery from 26-30 August as part of Slow Burn, which is a show incorporating work from current and past UNSW Art & Design* students and teachers.
read more…Relyne
It may be possible in the long term for vertices to drift so far from origin that they will begin to overlap with one another, closing over open forms and causing fundamental disturbances to the arrangements of the array. Although the effects of this are unknown, it is not inconceivable that such an event would precipitate the collapse of the array, and the decomposition of all contained geometry. Whether any organised structure would survive - and what form it would have - is an unanswerable inquiry at the present time.
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The View From L2
I’ve just put up a page for a project from June, a series of ceramic bowls called “Gravity Well”.
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