Mirrored Worlds - Michael Graf

Ideas

A Brief History

Using a cast and crew numbering in the hundreds, the '12 Degrees of Other' distil their material from a vast catalogue of over 350,000 discarded media scripts.

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The Divided Brain

Once in a generation, someone puts forth a seemingly audacious idea that completely changes the way we see the world around us. Dr. Iain McGilchrist might just be that person. THE DIVIDED BRAIN is a mind-altering odyssey about one man’s quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains, and help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental and social issues; ones that shape our very future as a species.

Mono No Aware

'Mono no Aware' and The Fleeting Nature of Things

The eastern idea of Mono No Aware challenges us to embrace a deeper sense of wonder and woe in the transient nature of the things around us.

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Is Otherness Dying?

What is 'OTHER' Seeing?

A REVERIE FOR A FLY AND A FLASH

The Attention Thief

In a burgeoning and fragmented Attention Economy, lingering perceptions are becoming a scarce commodity. The ways we define 'image' are slowly changing. 'Other' argues for a more patient and diverse mode of seeing to reclaim a lost span of attention.

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12 Principles of 'Seeing'

Based loosely on Leonardo Da Vinci's theory Saper Vedere, these 12 principles reiterate an understanding that all things are connected in some form or another. Knowledge flows from a practice of interconnecting them.

The Wisdoms in a Moving Voice

A genre of Japanese writing that wanders across thoughts, ideas and subjects, building bridges between them and neighbourhoods from them.

Are we Simply Heads in the Herd?

The uncompromising thoughts of Friedrich Nietzsche and the paradox of 'herd' expressions.

Shaping the Consumer Mind

Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, often used his uncle's principles of psychoanalysis to exploit the modern, consumer mind.

Leonardo's Prodigious Vision

Leonardo da Vinci attributed many of his scientific and artistic discoveries to one principle which he called saper vedere — ‘knowing how to see.’

The Birth of Visual Intelligence

How the patient art of observation can transform the obvious and everyday into a world of deeper perceptions.

The artistic genius of a physicist

Niels Bohr's theory of complementarity offers more than just insights into the physical world, but can help us in understanding art, science and the unseen world around us.

The Making of A Want

Common, unconscious patterns in our behaviours have slowly become a seedbed to stir image and desire.

Gestures, Journals, Jingles

A Bookshelf of Reading

A collection of other authors, artists, and thinkers...