Garbage in, garbage out -

"Old School Data Entry and Retrieval"
hand-written data card by Mick Mather

"... it's a capital mistake to theorize
before one has data ..."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Still with us, after all these years -

"Checklist"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... I must insist on full access to all discs recovered ..."
- J. Edgar Hoover

NEW from the Database Series -

"Top Secret"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... from now on the universe is
without further mystery ..."
- Merccelin Berthelot

You may already have won!

"Attempted Delivery"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin
and Crumpet and Punctual Delivery Company ..."
- Charles Dickens

... go away -

"Rain"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... still falls the rain
- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -
blind as the nineteen hundred and forty
nails upon the cross ..."
- Dame Edith Sitwell

Database Art Series -

"T & F Products"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh
we deprive a soul of the sun, and light,
and of that proportion of life and time
they had been born into the world to enjoy ..."
- Plutarch

Now you see it -

"Declassified I"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... the phenomenon reported is something real
and not visionary or fictitious ..."
- General Nathan Twining

NEW from Database Series -

"Fractures II"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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As I believe I mentioned yesterday, this week is going to be an in-and-out, revolving door of activity here at MickMathersARTblog. Must dash!

NEW from Database Series -

"Fractures I"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Here I am again with another multi-layered collage as I'm dragged further into the concept of database and art practice. While looking at photographs of the recent earthquake in Italy the idea struck me that some of the geological fault line data available might lead to something. It has ... if there's more to say about this new approach to my work, I can't be certain, yet, what that is.

Database? -

"Red River I"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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This will likely be the only piece to escape the Secret Visual Laboratory as I fiddle with the idea of database art. My early research tells me that I'm in the "after-the-novelty-wears-off" phase of layering data as a digital collage. While a valid way to express the voluminous amount of data available even in a single event or subject, I doubt that I'm making any meaningful inroads to new media. My suspicion is that I'm going to need more programming knowledge than I think I'm willing to tackle at the moment but, who knows.