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A SHORT PAPER SUBMITTED TO The 1st congress on Web Studies
Into Dimensionism
Paul McLean [Lead Artist, Art for Humans]
Abstract
Dimensional analysis is the most effective tool for interpreting data “mined” in real time. In aesthetic applications, the power of the dimensionist approach is unparalleled, generating environments to contain or present objects encompassing traditional and new [electronic] media, producing layered and faceted narratives. Dimensional applications in other fields have proven immensely valuable, if not necessarily benevolent. It is of immense importance that dimensionism as a perceptual complex be explicitly identified, so that the various usages and applications advance under conditions that encourage transparency, representative functions and user accountability.
N + 1 = Wiki
Charles Sirato’s dimensionist formula [N + 1] is proven in the dynamic generative structure of Wiki software. Frederick Taylor’s “Scientific Management,” the platform that reformed manufacturing productivity, is not possible without the precursor – provided in the multi-disciplinary work of Eadweard Muybridge and Thomas Eakins. Portraiture and profiling share creative roots, even if they diverge at the point of usage. To perceive and consider data within a dimensional framework – and each of these developments can be collectivized in an interpretive, expressive schema - is to engage in dimensional analysis. Dimensional art is a proof for dimensional analysis.
Cursor
Understanding preservation and sustainability in a continuum is to recognize the inherent value of the object and its contingent informatics, including structure. Applying ethics to optics to define vision with meaning is essential to the survival of the Humanities in the digital age. The web as a dimensional modality is linguistic [abstract] in this respect. Art is visual [realistic]. To correctly assess the complementary natures of language and seeing entails the abandonment of destructive dualism-based conclusions and top-down hierarchies. Dimensional processes embrace text and visuals, as objects and representations of objects.
Critique Fails
Dimensionism refutes criticism, except as an indicator of managerial controls. The apparatus for improved performance is multi-directional in the dimensional production construct. In the first scenario, the product is enforcement and consumption. In the second, the product is an array of singular, object-based contributions, within a collective project-based context, as a mutual benefit. The dimensional method is fundamentally autonomous and egalitarian.
The Dimensional Object
The inhibition of dimensional perceptual evolution is caused by exclusionary, reductive force applied as restrictions or sequential command complexes yielding oppositional social configurations. Algorithms for redistribution of wealth or the identification of terrorists are examples. Combined with oppressive assets, such formal interventions – reducing freedoms to design problems or issues – inflict tremendous systemic damage in the social ecology. It is of vital importance that the agents of art and science effectively circumvent the forces limiting or co-opting dimensional expansion in all domains of human endeavor. A significant first step would be the abolition of artificial personhood for corporations. A second would be the restoration of pre-eminence [in the free speech arena] for singular, object-based expression.
“Content” ©2007 Paul McLean
1. References
Sirato, Charles (1936). The Dimensionist Manifesto. Paris: [URL/web notations - http://www.artpool.hu/TamkoSirato/manifest.html (no longer available); Translated by Oliver A. I. Botar from the Hungarian version published in Károly Tamkó -Sirató, A Vízöntő -kor hajnalán (Budapest, 1969), pp. 209-211].
McLean, Paul (2009). Cursor 1-10. http://afh-cursor.tumblr.com/: Art for Humans.
[Exhibit catalog in web format with multiple contributors] “Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photography of Motion” (2000). http://americanhistory.si.edu/muybridge/index.htm: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Taylor, Frederick W. (1911). The Principles of Scientific Management. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers.
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