Anil brought up the Bayesian equation that coincidently is also in my Human Camera book in an essay by Chris Frith (who has also peer reviewed Anil’s work). This early equation (1763) recognises the idea that perception and the interpretation of our senses...
Text by Michael Denholm in "In the Vineyard of Art, The Story of Art and Tasmani. A History. Volume 4" Lindsay Seers, who lives in Sheerness-on-Sea, was born on the island of Mauritius from where Abel Tasman had sailed when he had accidentally...
Review and Notes on Suffering by Lindsay Seers Text from a review in Artlink by Andrew Harper UK artist Lindsay Seers has been to Queenstown before and made vital work from her visits, but her latest work Suffering is an experience that is almost...
First thoughts from 2015 for Every Thought There Ever Was “ Consciousness is at once the most familiar and the most mysterious feature of our existence. Long considered the exclusive preserve of philosophy, over the past two decades a new and productive science...
Image and sound by Keith Sargent … See...
The Ganzfeld Experiment 09.04.17, Oslo (Praksis) (initiated and organised by Monika, photographed by Monika and Nina T) Some years ago – during development of my forthcoming work “Every Thought There Ever Was” the psychologist Julian...
Wear headphones if you can. You will need to click on Read More at the bottom of the visible list now to see them all. They are rough…(music by David Dhonau) … See...
A photo by Dave Beech (This writing arises from a facebook conversation with Dave Beech and others 7th – 9th April 2017. This is pasted in below my text.) Corroborate – not Collaborate There are dark shadows in the etymology in the word...
16th March 2017 Synchronicity – temperature warm/hot 1. There is only one photograph in "Mental Metal' (my commissioned work for Ambika P3) which is not of the actor Michael Bryne. This one other photograph was one I took of the Cern Giant...
29th March 2017 Dear Monika, I would like to ask you about this phenomenon of pareidolia. What studies if any have been done on this? I am also curious to know if it relates to hallucination and what papers there are on hallucination – both drug induced and...
29th March 2017 Dear Mila, just now I had decided I needed to leave the room for a few moments due to cabin fever and found you with packs of tarot cards in your hands. That your song lyrics of last night’s event were taken from a YouTube tarot reading is...
30th March 2017 Dear Gunnlaug, it is a very specific thing to grow up in a place leave it and not return for 35 years. That is quite a major thing to have in common. Formative. As I mentioned I grew up in Mauritius and left at around the age of 8 in rather dramatic...
29th March 2017 Dear Nina, we have a surprising amount of connections. I don’t know which to start with …For many years I have been interested in the power of images to change things. Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad is a portal to another state of...
29th March 2017 Dear (aka) Oliver Olson, we have met through a Klein Jar. I couldn't help but use the object quasi erotically in my film. I am surprised to find at the screening last night a person who owns such a thing. Perhaps you forsaw it? But then I only...
29th March 2017 Dear Jeremy, finally I get to pareidolia! Leo Kelly connects us. I was travelling around Tasmania with a collapsible Tin Tabernacle so my fascination for Leo’s house was obvious. But his mind was more extraordinary than his house. I am...
29th March 2017 Dear Rachel, I am thinking about how sensory deprivation is a trigger for hallucination as a psychologist specialising in schizophrenia I have been working with did a number of simple experiments with students, reducing their...
Rock from Mental Metal (Lindsay Seers 2017) 29th March 2017 Dear Anne, I seem to be...
Dear Anne, I seem to be turning to my own film as a matrix to contain all of my connections here. Your foam blob and your costume are still vibrating in my mind. In my work in Ambika P3 the rock at the end and the roving red blob (over bewitchment) made...
To be invited to show is always a privilege. Quad had previously realized a large work of mine so I knew they understood the intensity that surrounds how I work (re: my requirement to be involved in the complete process of the making and installation of the work and...
At a conference in Oslo (Norwegian Artists Research Forum) I met a woman over breakfast also researching the 1890's in British history – she is writing about Dartington Hall. We spoke about the re-thinking of the body in modernist dance which began to emerge...
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