insufficient interest and invisible films
… Given the present reality, however, Melik Ohanian’s art project, where he travelled to the California desert where Punishment Park was filmed, and projected the film onto the sky there, was a brilliant idea. As a statement about the place of critical film in today’s society, I can’t imagine a more disturbing – and useful […] Read More
notes about Herodotus
.. check out some readings from the just recently passed away author and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, like for example his text titled HERODOTUS AND THE ART OF NOTICING which has been published in lettre international in 2003. … In this multicultural world, people from those other cultures demand that they be treated as equal, command […] Read Morefeedback
On the occasion of the publication of Feedback, The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews and the event The Feminist Future symposium MoMA is starting with today an exhibition under the same title Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Video Art, and Artist Interviews, which offers screenings of video art and interviews […] Read More
Children of dystopia
Via media mindfulness I discovered a few days ago a nice composite review on the film ‘Children of Men‘. The Children of Dystopia entitled post starts with a short link-collecting intro and continues with a longer excerpt of Zizek’s review on the film. Zizek’s reading is quite opulent and assoziative as usual, but also like […] Read More
‘We want you to be our eyes!’
Sudeep Dasgupta, Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, has published an interesting article concerning ‘the compromised eye’ in the world of modern mass media culture. He analyses ‘the symptoms and the real’ along a classical psychoanalytical understanding, which concludes that a rethinking of visual culture diminishes the […] Read Morethese days: heavy winds
images via Spiegel Online International Read Morelooking and listening: J. Benning’s work
Ok. here the new Gus van Sant film ‘Last Days‘ is just starting and as one of the reviewers (german only) drew connections to a shot of M.Snows ‘Wavelength‘ and the general attitude of the films of James Benning as influences for van Sand, I thought it worth to connect to the work of the […] Read More
unfinish! – 20 years transmediale
…transmediale.07 is going to open its doors on January 31st under the theme ‘unfinish!’. “A finished work is exactly that, it requires resurrection.” (John Cage, 1949) unfinish! demands the re-opening of processes that are deemed closed. unfinish! questions finality and claims that any given situation is full of potential. unfinish! investigates artistic processes that are […] Read More