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on visualization of the non-perceivable
Mobile technologies increasingly unfold new layers onto the problem of perception which already accumulated further complexity through digitization. The issue of visualization for these technologies touches not only the understanding of the consequences of their impact on our social behaviour and environment, though it relates at the same time to core problems of the …
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Eyes on Screen
Related to the recently mentioned limitations and difficulties especially documentary filmakers face due to outdated copyright issues comes this call for action. It offers and asks to distribute further digital versions of Eyes on the Prize, one of the films which screenings are most affected through – as the The Washington Post* (*bugmenot) put …
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linking mob art
Netzwissenschaft has put together extensive link collections on two entrance pages ( page 1 and page 2) for mob art.
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narrate to create space for re-narration
Bab Al-Shams (The Gate of the Sun) the recent epic film by Yousry Nasrallah after Elias Khoury’s book to tell the story of Palestinians received an extensive review on Al-Ahram weekly and I leave the space to quote from there:... Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note. Khalil, child of the …
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updated ! .. reminder
for the start of the 5th world social forum in Porto Alegro on 26.01., which links me to related thoughts expressed in the recent ‘Le monde diplomatique’ issue in a comment by Ignacio Ramonet on the already vanishing attention for the tsunami impact: The level of need exposed by the tsunami demonstrates that humanitarian …
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towards the unthinkable
Colin Gadener has been published with an lengthy article ‘Thinking the unthinkable’ in the artbrain online journal, which sorrily has no footnotes despite its tour de force through theories of perception and the filmic. I will quote a few passages as they highlight a train of thought I think interesting, eventhough not yet sure …
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infrasonic soundsacpe
rhizome.org published its second online exhibition ‘location is everything’ which among others links to the work of H.Minami. He describes the development of his sound related interface as stimulated through influence … by John Cage, who raised an idea of new type of music composed of noise, and Tom Johnson, who writes about a …