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by archibaldJ 2138 days ago
Just visited mathis.art. My apologies for the bluntness but the general impression it gives off is a project by an eco-centric person making bold claims about things. You speak a great sense of pragmatism but I don’t see anything pragmatic about the campaign, both in your HN post and on the website. Also I don’t see anything mathematical or remotely art.

Please don’t get me wrong. What you are doing sounds interesting. Here is just my 2c and I hope you it find useful. Looking forwards to seeing your progress. You are in my watch list now =)

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Thank you for the feedback. The post I made here is the focus for now. This was the site as it was a few years ago when I was experimenting with the idea and the question “Should an artist be egotistical?” After all, is such a site about exploring one’s self? Regardless, the site is now about how we all can think moving forward, so it is no longer an individual expression of myself.

I am currently working on a complete redesign as we speak. The only reason I even mentioned it here was the timeliness of the General Post. The site as it is needs to at least have the information I posted here, which it does not. Please consider it Under Construction. It currently is not related to the campaign at all.

Also, a thought experiment for you to ponder: Must art leave an artifact? Who made that restriction? If an artifact and a conversation have the same effects on the world, is one more artful than the other? Is the creator/instigator of a response more worthy when there is a tangible thing?

These sorts of questions are not what “Think OMNI” is about, though. Think OMNI is about eating, raising a family, engaging with neighbors. Pondering art is for after Breathing Room has been developed.