Notes on Blocks

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Notes on Blocks
On Elemental Computation
How do we define and explore the material relationships of computers and the environment?

by Jon Chen
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On Detail and the Sublime
Architecture has always been well equipped in manufacturing awe

by Mara Jovanović
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Is This a Poem?
Poetry as visual arrangement, a thing to be looked at

by Sharon Neema
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On Language and Time
“As words go forward, they also go backwards.”

by Nazlı Ercan
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Cloudscrying
On finding meaning in finding meaning in clouds

by Noa Mori
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Fantasy of Future and Past
On party planning, technology, and the collision of time

by Luiza Dale
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On Culture
Localizing what culture means on an individual level

by Njari Anderson
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When We Have a Studio…
I hate work?

by Didier Lucceus
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In Defense of Forgetting
Reframing forgetting as healing, purposeful, and even eudaemonic.

by Jo Suk
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Make Me Your Manifesto
An investigation into the ever-evolving form.

by Natalee Ranii-Dropcho
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On Sonder
We're made of the same stuff.

by Alex Tan
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On Connection
What kinds of vulnerability do platforms encourage, and what kinds of expression do they limit?

by Leslie Liu
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Welcome to My Thousand Funerals
“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.”

by Miaoye Que
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On Listening to the Void
All of life’s greatest truths are wrapped in mystery.

by Alice Otieno
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On Earth We Are Briefly Tender
A consistent space of refuge, a window into an elsewhere.

by Karl Rivera
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I learnt colour but did not understand it
On exploring color through as many tinted lenses as possible.

by Tess Murdoch
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On Rejecting Narrative Identity
To be “against” narrative identity is to recognize that we’re unreliable narrators.

by Nico Chilla
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On the Aesthetics of Progress
And the potential of a society organized around awe.

by Molly Mielke
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On Food Ontologies
And the different ways to organize and understand cooking and food.

by Agnes Cameron
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On Abolitionist Teaching Dreamscapes
And the artist’s role in building a world where we are all supported in our right to live joyously

by Sienna Kwami
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