22 statements about a fear of being alone (or existentialism) in the dark
on the exhibition "Comfort Studies" at the New Gallery, Calgary

Technology always operates in the service of humanity.
Science could be defined as the application of human intelligence in the process of determining the world through representation: numbers, diagrams which approximate reality, hypotheses, observations, conclusions.
The assumption that language is a cogent system for information transmission is fraudulent.
The scientific process enables technological innovation: refinement plus improvement with the goal of perfection.

P: By which scale? What rules? Can I get a pamphlet about this?
Whatever every diagram portends, every diagram tells the same truth: the machine doesnít hug you back.
Communication is a combination of fascism and illusion. We are listening. You are reading
Asleep on the wall, you hear a story about gravity and the world tilts ninety degrees; there is comfort in incorrect knowledge too. The sun sets, I have a diagram to explain how the sun sets.
Comprehension is always a linear process similar to the assembly line.

A: Ideology is not entirely accurate.
Toasters are mirrors for your desire. I want to tell you something.
What draws meaning away from the necessity of its transmission is as terrorism is to the United States. Who is wrong and what are we missing when we choose sides? What does a non-utilitarian machine look like?
Capable of love, dispassionately.

P: What I wanted to tell you about flowers.
Non-reciprocating bodies involve a gaze of possession and creation applied to bodies capable of reciprocation when considered as non-reciprocating by the subject administering the gaze. For example, when I say ìyou are an object and you look angryî (as opposed to anthropomorphism) I tell you that stones can cry. Stones are non-reciprocating bodies.
Careful about reading a wooden figure or splatter of ink or pile of clay into consciousness. Your desire creates toasters.
Iíll show you my source code if youíll show me yours.
The movie 2001 proposes the ultimate fear of machinery: that it will understand errors as the result of clumsy human interference and that the machine will take action to eradicate the source of its error. Technology always operates in the service of humanity.
What is comforting about what is?
When machines attack versus when machines choose not to attack.
There is nothing, then there is something and you are not as alone as you felt previously. Scratch that. There is everything, then you select something and feel less alone than you felt before. Which of these sentences is incorrect?

A: So, just tell me already