{"id":2,"date":"2009-04-10T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2009-04-12T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T20:45:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tree_of_noah_09400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-280\" title=\"tree_of_noah_09400\" src=\"http:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tree_of_noah_09400.jpg\" alt=\"Tree of Noah\" width=\"192\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tree_of_noah_09400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/tree_of_noah_09400-206x299.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree of Noah, &quot;Breeches&quot; Bible of 1599<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>RENATURED is a storage tank for thinking about the relationships between earthlings and their ecologies:  between human and non-human animals, and those in between.\u00a0 Digging into the ways we live with nature and without it, and sampling from the\u00a0 internet ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an extension of my animation and media work, which can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.o-matic.com\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;renatured&#8221; is a biology term, it means<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"sense_content\">to restore (as a denatured protein) to an original or normal condition \u2013Merriam Webster<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"sense_content\">Given that I do not believe there&#8217;s anything to restore \u2013\u00a0 not simply that we&#8217;re too far gone \u2013 but that from everbefore, the notion of nature is constructed by humans as a set of malleable parameters. Nature can only change,\u00a0 is in the process of always-becoming. The title <\/span><span class=\"sense_content\">&#8220;Renature&#8221; <\/span><span class=\"sense_content\">is akin to replay, or reset, a kind of magical thinking about winding back and repetition that is fallacious; &#8220;Renature&#8221; is set up there in its title space as a reminder (to me) to keep the networks fluid, keep asking questions, reject the compulsion for fixity, and field the mods as they come.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RENATURED is a storage tank for thinking about the relationships between earthlings and their ecologies: between human and non-human animals, and those in between.\u00a0 Digging into the ways we live with nature and without it, and sampling from the\u00a0 internet ecosystem. It&#8217;s an extension of my animation and media work, which can be seen HERE. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}