Pattern Recognition

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chinese contemporary artist tsang kin-wah is working on an ongoing project called ‘the seven seals’.
the series of seven digital video installations uses texts and computer technology to project tsang’s thoughts on various issues
of the day. the body of work first began in 2009, and draws references from a variety of sources including the bible,
judeo-christian eschatology, existentialism, metaphysics, politics etc., which attempt to articulate the complex situation
of the world and the dilemmas that people are facing.

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is (among other things*) a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet.

"The novel's central theme involves the examination of the human desire to detect patterns or meaning and the risks of finding patterns in meaningless data. Other themes include methods of interpretation of history, cultural familiarity with brand names, and tensions between art and commercialization. The September 11, 2001 attacks are used as a motif representing the transition to the new century. Critics identify influences in Pattern Recognition from Thomas Pynchon's postmodern detective story The Crying of Lot 49". ~ from Wikipedia

*The title of Gibson's book is derived from the polymath Marshall McLuhan's early thoughts. In Douglas Coupland’s new book, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!,' he states,

"One must remember that Marshall arrived at these conclusions not by hanging around, say, NASA or I.B.M., but rather by studying arcane 16th-century Reformation pamphleteers, the writings of James Joyce, and Renaissance perspective drawings.

"He was a master of pattern recognition, the man who bangs a drum so large that it’s only beaten once every hundred years."

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