shifting space
.. an interesting find: the project description of a game concept following Lewis Carrol’s novel Through the Looking Glass: … the novel merges but never collapses physical spaces, fantasy worlds, and simulated environments. The novel is composed of vivid scenes, mediated by extreme transformations. The spaces between scenes are marked by gaps and abstractions, by […] Read More
continuing on representation
Latour states in the mentioned introduction to ‘Making Things Public‘ that the claim of the crisis of representation aside all technical layerings and general codings arises from a demand it can’t fulfill The problem is that transparent, unmediated, undisputable facts have recently become rarer and rarer. To provide complete undisputable proof has become a rather […] Read More
photographed images – once
Yes, it is still around – the problem of the image / representation … It is been some time that digitization was set on one level together with the loss of indexicality. It’s become more complex as the image is still around, still feeds the instances of imagination, but as L.U. Marks states ‘digitization has […] Read Moreeye and ear again
… this time to be fed via the excellent Ubu web website. The following is to be seen: films from Debord, Fluxux, etc.. and heard: listen to Marshall McLuhan ….. Read Moreimage and sound as the fabric of the film
Babette Mangolte, professor at the university of San Diego, defines herself as a person predominated by the two senses of eye and ear and belongs to those female artists and filmmakers who discovered cinema with the New Wave. In the 60s and early 70s she moved from France to New York and due to her […] Read More
some features
.. of this blog might still not work perfectly. As I just found out that the comments were turned off – at least it was a spam free period !!! … There are also still bugs in my css leading to misbehaviour in the categories and archive sections. I am really planning to get ride […] Read More
hallucinogenic space
space in the age of non-place in this article in the recent issue of drain with topic on deterritorialization Ian Buchanan takes on a journey from his definition of postmodern uncoded, thus deterritorializing non-places on to the ‘over-coded’ space which tries to reterritorialize the disoriented ‘traveller’: Disorientation brought on by the disembedding process requires in […] Read MoreAlice supports the firefighters
.. while the blog gets updated to wordpress 1.5 and hopefully a modification on some bugs …..[wordpress 1.5 (via)] Meanwhile enjoy the very early tiny animation movie of Alice and the firfighters (real video) with implemented realtime elements and the support of Paul Dessau‘s music. (from arte) Read More
infaltables_3 : on representational affairs
(apologies for long excerpts: entire text can be found here) .. an attempt to render the air breathable again is contained in the following farce suggested by P. Sloterdijk: … He imagined that the U.S. Air Force should have added to its military paraphernalia an “inflatable Parliament” which could be parachuted at the rear of […] Read MoreMaking things public … an experimental assembly of assemblies
A new exhibition project by the ZKM announced under that title Making Things Public-Atmopheres of Democracy will be opened saturday 19. Initiated by Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour the project is described as an experiment in defining an assembly of assemblies according to Latour’s introduction for the voluminous catalog as: In many ways our exhibition […] Read Moresyrian bride
This new film made by the israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, who wrote the script in collaboration with the Palestinian scriptwriter Suha Arraf already has been touring the world and picking up awards at European and Canadian film festivals. Though the film is called The Syrian Bride, the story is about much more than the title […] Read Moredevelopment out of the ‘impoverished’ situation
.. Arte Povera [Impoverished Art], a term taken from the Impoverished Theatre of the Polish playwright Jerzy Grotowsky by the art critic G.Celant for the works of young italian artists in the 60s and early 70s might has taken its energy from within a network of urban cultural activity of that time – one of […] Read More