Dialectic of Site and Nonsite

Site	Nonsite
1. Open Limits	Closed Limits
2. A Series of Points	An Array of Matter
3. Outer Coordinates	Inner Coordinates
4. Subtraction	Addition
5. Indeterminate Certainty	Determinate Uncertainty
6. Scattered Information	Contained Information
7. Reflection	Mirror
8. Edge	Center
9. Some Place (physical)	No Place (abstract)
10. Many	One

Footnote 1 from Robert Smithon's essay The Spiral Jetty (1972).

Originally published in Arts of the Environment, Gyorgy Kepes, ed. pp.222-232
Reprinted in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, Jack Flam, ed. pp.143-153

Varkala flute

This recording is from an impromptu performance by a Hindustani flute player along the red rock cliff in Varkala, Kerala, India, January 2005. I no longer know the musician's name, but he hand made his own flutes, one of which I bought. Unfortunately it was badly damaged in transit. This recording popped up during an iTunes shuffle. A Proustian delight, South Indian style...

 

 

by John Keller

Esseneite & NiTi crystal lattice structures from the monoclinic space group

 

 Esseneite

NiTi

Installation Views of Jose Alvarez's video Surfaces of Constant Time from Ratio3 in SF

Features soundtrack by CJM. Here's an excerpt: