In this interview edit, Paul Virilio relates the notions of void, speed and life (Vide, Vite et Vif). He brings up Foucault’s theory of claustrophobia as it is reflected by interfaces that shrinks everything into the palm of our hands. He talks about the race to build upward and even to reach upward toward other worlds—all the while progress is taking reality beyond our control hence bringing new generation of threats. Virilio also suggests the creation of a Ministry of Time to help us manage our present.

For the AGI Congress 2011 “Special Project” in Barcelona: bees, agriculture and pollination
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Did we invent language to tell complex stories or did we inherit simple stories that turned into a complex language?
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Perhaps we conceive language not to tell stories but to build survival systems. Just to be. But all systems exist within a larger and more complex one. Bees do live in a stunning architecture, but we have harnessed it as a mere machine for the sake of billions in market commodities, as well as ninety percent of the world’s commercial plants, from fruits and veggies to coffee and cotton. They have virtually been feeding the planet.
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And now they are dying overnight because we have destroyed their language. Will humans have to pollinate for the bees?
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Yes. Pollinate ideas to save bees. To start with…

A workshop conceived for the California College of the Arts: In the midst of city spaces large and small, we will catalogue notable aspects of street life, messaging, iconography, art, interfaces, devices, and other constructs that can bring both life and identity to spatiality. We will consider how these heterogeneous design agencies relate to each other, to people, to culture and/or to the economy.

A series of prints that explore how various notions of perspective can be applied to seascapes and urbanscapes