#abstraction

#abstraction

He has spent the last decade or so thinking about the land as a witness to history and politics. Boundaries shift, places are named and renamed, and maps are redrawn. Land is bought, sold, worked, exhausted, and fought over. It remembers everything and the events that unfold at a particular site become part of its permanent record, even if that record is unseen and mute.

Outside, it was cold and dark. Inside, brightly colored forms seemed to swirl and spread. It was February, 2013, the evening of the opening of "Hilma af Klint-A Pioneer of Abstraction" at Moderna Museet, in Stockholm. Among the attendees was Kurt Almqvist, a white-haired man in his mid-fifties. Though Almqvist considered himself something of an expert on fin-de-siècle intellectual history-he had written a book on Carl Jung-he was seeing af Klint's paintings for the first time.

revealing the structure of its underground architecture. It is so sophisticated and looks like something out of a sci-fi film. We call that nature just doing its thing. How come our skyscrapers and cities are seen differently? In my opinion, the answer is that it is a very effective way to morally separate ourselves from problems we inflict on our environment or on other species.

Nemo's latest task was to add a toggle to the dashboard. He delivered an abstracted, modular event-handling engine with algebraic constraints and a recursive effect system that reifies toggle intentions into a monadic signal flow.