algorithmic concepts
Smart Laura Marks (former posts) pointed me towards the following inventor of the algorythmic concept: Al-Khwarizmi. He is listed at wikipedia as the developer of the concept of an algorithm in mathematics, and is thus sometimes given the title of “grandfather of computer science”. The words “algorithm” and “algorism” derive ultimately from his name … […] Read More
Architecture and Identity
… is an upcoming event scheduled for December 6 – 8 2004 to take place at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, and will be concepted around the following question: (link) “Is there something like a reflected indigenousness?” This question could well be applied to the ongoing discourse about cultural identity in architecture. It has […] Read Morenews images generate world as repetitive pattern
In the repetition of stereotyped images from major news sources developes an hourly changing pattern, which might tell more about the view and access to readability of visual reproduction we have about the surrounding world than any single picture would. In this sense the missing – the non visible visualisations define the gap, whilst the […] Read More
phenomenon – transmitted atrocities
The arcticle by Michael Ignatieff PHENOMENON: The Terrorist as Auteur had been online and commented the recent days several times. Beneath the just recently here on this blog mentioned masterpiece The Battle of Algiers the text also uses the film ‘One Day in September’, to to point to some differences, which guarantee a deeper insight […] Read More
the location of culture
.. occasional remembrance to the location of culture came along on different levels … and looking through for a quote in mind – it could not be detected on first sight. This setting of a search for the reference to Bhaba’s locating of the memory / re-membering – as an act of re-arrangement, a dis-remembering […] Read More
precarious life / Judith Butler
Instead of comments to this week’s events .. this post I am linking to (via newsgrist blog) seems to condense the main points …. Read More
translating difference
Together with counterpoint opendemocracy hosts an ongoing discussion series on multiculturalism expressed as translating difference. Among the already published articles expressing various points of view Stuart Hall reflects in the divided city on the consequences of neo-liberalism for the contemporary city .. link The points of convergence, as well as the routes and passages through […] Read MoreThe Battle of Algiers
… actual reminder to this remarkable fim of Gillo Pontecorvo is the screening tonight on arte (only german/french on this link)… and it might be worth to look at the recent attention the film got recently from the pentagon… as well as some thoughts from another direction on common dreams about the film … org: […] Read More
seeing sound … and touch
(link)along the process of thinking about sound I came back to touch and the interweaving moment of the audiovisual …. Cartoons reveal by exaggeration the sonoro-tactile pathos of cinema. Cinema is driven, not by lip-synched dialogue, but by certain violent sound-tactations, six grades of which may be distinguished: the kiss, the punch, the cut, the […] Read More
GAP* on the move …
finally the GAP* is moving over … (URL etc .. all stays same) – during the recent period the GAP*’s move to wordpress – now the publishing software operating underneath this surface has been prepared ..It is still not all perfect, but I try to keep it up and fix steadily the bugs .. .. […] Read More
representing the gap
(link) Sonali Pahwa speaks to Kouross Esmaeli, an Iranian-born, New York-based filmmaker who recently went to Iraq, about the politics of US representation of Iraqis .. Going to Iraq was like stepping out of the screen and into the street. Baghdad is devastated. It is a large city with beautiful public spaces, artworks and buildings […] Read More