IAIN BAXTER&: In the Field of Fluent Language
Posted: March 15, 2013
IAIN BAXTER&: In the Field of Fluent Language
David Bellman
Research Curator
CAUSA
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“Definition is limitation.”
– Kakuzo Okakura (1904)
![Simon Fraser University logo (designed by Iain Baxter, 1965) – published in Canadian Architect, 11 no 2, 1966. [Photo: M. Cynog Evans, CAUSA Archives.]](images/sfu.jpg)
Simon Fraser University logo (designed by Iain Baxter, 1965) – published in Canadian Architect, 11 no 2, 1966. [Photo: M. Cynog Evans, CAUSA Archives.]
“Language cannot be regarded as a copy of things but as a condition of our concept of things.”
– Ernst Cassirer (1942)
![Business card for IAIN BAXTER, Professor of Visual Perception and Design / N.E.Thing Co. Ltd., [recto/verso], 1969.](images/card-2.jpg)
![Business card for IAIN BAXTER, Professor of Visual Perception and Design / N.E.Thing Co. Ltd., [recto/verso], 1969.](images/card.jpg)
Business card for IAIN BAXTER, Professor of Visual Perception and Design / N.E.Thing Co. Ltd., [recto/verso], 1969.
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“Scientific experiment, relying on empirical rigor in refining its methods and verifying its results, seeks to extend and consolidate our grasp of order in the universe. Artistic experiment sets out to breed disorder, thwart determinism, and open up a space for individual freedom and consciousness.”
– Roger Shattuck (1984)
Installation of N.E. Thing Co.: Building Structure, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, 1969
Realization of this work had entailed fabrication and installation instructions being sent (via telephone, from North Vancouver) to consulting architect Barrie Brisco – who worked with Toronto carpenters in completing the project.
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Posters: Robert R. Reid
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“With the threat of crises and the depletion of natural resources, economic thought has been touched by the grace of ecology and is rethinking its postulates on the possibility of infinite growth. But it is not rethinking the other postulate on the infinite availability of human beings to increasing amounts of happiness and pleasure. This anthropological illusion may be even more serious than the limits on resources. Humans are also limited in their potential. We imagine that needs, desires and demand are all endless and we have vigorously endeavoured (especially since 1929) to convince them to respond with exponential demand to the exponentiality of growth. This is where the break comes in: humans break down.”
– Jean Baudrillard (2005)
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