This canvas (W 30' x H 36') is the 7th installation in my collection Cybernetic Musings. As shown in other canvasses in this series, I have mixed feelings about recent developments in the new information technology and the developing cyberspace that vacillate between optimism and pessimism. However, the dominant emotion is one of expectation tempered … Continue reading Expectations
Here be Rats …
This artwork is part of a series of five paintings that is called Cybernetic Musings. In these series I explore recent developments into the cyberspace. The title of this work refers to an old annotation that medieval cartographers made upon unexplored territories "Here be dragons" and also refers to one of my own works where … Continue reading Here be Rats …
The Connected Mind
Art inspired by some hopes and fears how future brain implants may influence humankind.
Big Santa.
Santa is a legendary character, originating in Western culture, who is said to bring children gifts on Christmas Eve of toys and candy or coal or nothing, depending on whether they are "naughty or nice". He supposedly accomplishes this with the aid of Christmas elves, who make the toys in his workshop, often said to … Continue reading Big Santa.
The Decline of Reading
Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
The Reader as a Protagonist in Modern Literature.
A post about books that allow readers to become protagonists.
The Man-Machine Relation in Art and Science.
Illustration; When man merges with machine by Bob Eggleton The machine, over the course of the 20th century, progressively integrated itself into all fields of human activity. At first machines were conceived to alleviate the hard and mind killing facets of human labor. In Babylonian times, a day’s hard work would produce enough to light a room … Continue reading The Man-Machine Relation in Art and Science.
Shaharee Vyaas 