11/04/2021 - Unfortunately, the contents of this website were created under duress, for at the time I was undergoing an acute psychotic episode, product of a condition called 'schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type'. I have since stabilized, but I have chosen to leave this website up as a personal reminder to self. I still believe in the general ideas I was attempting to convey, and all ideas associated with this communication attempt (eg, the kickstarter, and time machine for peace homepage website), but overall, my ability to do so in an accessible and relatable manner was impaired. I can do better. I am currently in the process of creating a more accessible version of this website and the ideas contained within. For now however, it stands as-is.
The primary failure in this website's communication attempt was that it does not make it clear that this website is to serve as a template and example, to outline my personal world piece computer for others to 'get the idea' more easily. My intention is to host all my personal efforts and projects (the 'components' of my personal world piece computer') that I dedicate to generating peace in my individual world. I missed the point entirely. --Blair
>> Content and presentation within separate websites (subdomains) in this webspace (wp.computer and up.computer domains) will always be highly experimental and continually under construction, with a corresponding persistant degree of cringe.
>> I want to build this domain into a collective online studio/gallery/exhibit/etc for experimental (and social) conceptual peace art/engineering/etc. If you want a space on this domain for your own experimental purposes, hit me up!
>> All content and ideas in this subdomain are draft quality. Please suggest revisions my making a change request or opening a new issue on github.
Hi! I’m Blair.
PERSONAL OVERVIEW
All I want to do is make new and better life with people.
I think that the best way to do this is by coming up with ways to include everybody. I think that to make new life, we should collaborate and do art. I think that to make life better, we should do art in a way that helps us solve our hardest problems together.
In terms of solving our hardest problems, my studies in physics led me to conclude that our hard problems all revolve around the way we think about time—both the language we use and the ideas we hold on to. Time is (okay fine, effectively) irreversible according to thermodynamics, and the second law of thermodynamics tells us (it tells me at least) that no matter how much energy we put into solving a hard problem, new and more problems always crop up in its place. So it really isn’t about solving all the problems; it is more about finding the best way to go about solving new problems, as they crop up in real-time. It is more about asking ‘Is peace a result, or is it more like a process?’ Process first.
From my perspective, all the hardest problems—especially social problems—crop up because we don’t have a clear way of making sense of our Human experience, which I believe only makes sense thinking about in the context of time. A common example of this expression is, ‘why do our beliefs conflict?’
So I spend all my free time creating a theory of reality to explain and predict Human experience and behavior exclusively in terms of time. I want to create a new kind of math/physics-based art that can help us wrap our brains around what is known as the Hard Problem of Consciousness, which I believe is the crux of it all. I want to make it easier for anybody to make more productive sense of this infinitely complex thing we’re a part of that we call ’life'.
ABOUT MY ART
My art is CRUDE and UNREFINED. Conceptual art is a form that places the underlying ideas and concepts above medium and aesthetic refinement. I am first and foremost trying to communicate complex ideas for the purpose of collaboration en masse.
The theme I want to emphasize is world peace. I think that to solve our hardest problems, we definitely need to figure out how to work together to solve them. No matter what the problem is, if we can’t figure out how to cooperate as a species, then I believe we are doomed to fail. World peace is a super loaded term though, and the Kumbaya version that people often think of is beyond unrealistic, for now at least. This is why I use the term ‘global peace’. Because worlds vary so much within the universe of Human beings, it makes more sense to think about peace in terms of how we can link worlds (and their respective versions of ‘world peace’) together in more peaceful ways.
So my conceptual peace art is to invent a big way to tackle the problem of understanding our experience in terms of time, and to do so in a strictly inclusive way that allows us to connect our worlds together to communicate and come up with ways to make new and better life with everyone involved. The piece in whole is the effort to erect a computational global peace system.
MY 6 Ws