Slides from a talk delivered as part of the "Art Now" speaker series at the University of Western Ontario's Department of Visual Arts.

1. IDENTITY AND FATIGUE:SOME REFRACTIONS ON PROCESS AND MEMORY SEAN SMITHDEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL FLOW ARTIST/SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE

2. It is hardly surprising that one's recognition as a person was for millenia one's most jealously guarded and significant possession. Other human beings are important and necessary primarily because they can recognize me. Even the power, glory, and wealth that the 'others' seem so sensitive to, make sense, in the final analysis, only in view of this recognition of personal identity. Of course, one can — as it said that the Caliph of Baghdad, Hārūn al-Rashīd, was fond of doing — walk incognito through the streets dressed as a beggar. But if there were never a moment in which the name, glory, wealth, and power were recognized as 'mine,' if — as certain saints recommend doing — I were to live my whole life in nonrecognition, then my personal identity would also be lost forever. -- Giorgio Agamben, "Identity without the Person"

6. no know no-bodies September 12, 2011

7. The Multiplicity of Identity Walking as Knowing

8. SUV (Suburban Umbrella Vectors) September 19, 2011 performance and mixed media

16. Topological Transformation Acceleration and the Gift

17. Process Machine for Plant Activation(Homo generatuslepidopterae) September 20, 2011 performance and mixed media

24. 1. The two Department of Biological Flow particles will begin the process at opposite points on the circular orbit.2. One particle begins walking around the circle counter-clockwise toward the other stationary particle, who holds the relay baton.3. A camera will serve as the relay baton.4. When the moving particle reaches the stationary particle it shall bump the stationary particle into motion along the same orbital trajectory.5. The baton shall be passed backwards each time two particles collide.6. The orbital velocity shall increase with each revolution until both particles are in motion, at varying speeds.7. Once both particles are in motion the orbital velocity for either particle may decelerate, so long as the overall energy in the system stays relatively constant (ie. if one particle slows to a walk, the other must accelerate to a run).8. The performance ends when the plant has been activated.

31. Identity and Fatigue A Response to Franco (Bifo) Berardi

33. overexposure

34. tempo

35. multiplicity

36. weaving

37. autonomy

38. topology

39. biometrics

40. disequilibriumprocess fatigue ecologies erotics authentication witnessing naming forensics intensities fragility decay disappearance rupture disinformation meme density transference resonance intuition