Quasi-neutral, visually anthropological documentary manifested at Manifesta and Documenta.

"What I do is not really art, not really furniture," chairs from the throne to the unsitable.

Nonlinear systems - an introduction.

Some principles of nonlinear creative practice are here.

A Solar Circuit collaboration project is discussed on this page.

For research into nonlinear collaboration, follow this link.

Documentation of a nonlinear work installed in Tasmania's Museum and Art Gallery.

The ongoing dna debate - Dolly the sheep has problems.

Contemporary Polynesian artist sheyne tuffery.

factor 44 in Antwerp, the number 7 modification project.

The human genome project, with links to relevant sites.

In 1513 Leonardo asked a question, 464 years later, the answer is given.

 

The arguments for Hoffman as a representative of modernism do not need to be recited here. In "the difference between edges, the difference in the character of shapes and difference between size and proportion of even related shapes, differences in colour, differences in density... placement" (curator Karen Wilkin) is found the raw language of pictorial modernism.

In his lifetime however, Hoffman was more known as a teacher than as a painter. He taught Louise Nevelson in Europe and Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Rivers and Red Grooms in the US, among many others. Indeed it is possible the very fact he was a teacher worked against him - that is, there was a sense of incorrectness about his venture because his life was not spent entirely in the studio. At least it appears that was a prevailing perception at the time. If anyone disproves the contention that those who teach do so because they can't do, it would be Hans Hoffman.

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