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Detroit: ruin of a city
An upcoming event about Ruins of Modernity looks at the symptoms and effects ruination stands for especially in the dialectical process modernity is related to – as a steady shifting between mythology and self – destruction. Included in the presentations and lectures is a new film in which Detroit again is the research …
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Words and images in transit
... as some excerpts from the known text of Marc Augés (1995) link me to the online project by visual lab (Berlin no-space image on the right from their project database), which undertakes the effort to do a research between visual approaches and social analysis in new configurations of urban systems. But there …
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digital communities
Interesting point to focus on: for the second time ars electronica 2005 will have a section on ‘Digital Communities’. According to the enclosed statement of Howard Rheingold the skill to form digital communities and impact they have can not be reduced to a simple and one sided focus of the technical: Building community in …
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Post-tsunami effects
Space Imaging’s IKONOS satellite took the following six images Jan. 18, 2005 – approximately three weeks after the devastating tsunami hit the west coast of the Aceh province, Sumatra. The images show tidal wave damage to agricultural fields, shorelines, bridges, roads and structures, altered tree lines and other vegetation stripped away by the tsunami’s …
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updating transmediale links
This review (for which to read one sorrily has to be a member of rhizome) on transmediale works and intentions brought me back to rethink the works, which ironically were set up in a smaller passage way between the main exhibition platforms and an open lecture area. Works like the known makrolab project, the …
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parasite – inflatable homes
... a proposal of temporary shelters using outlet air for the survival of homeless people … There is “tension” between a host and its parasite, since the host endeavours to get rid of the foreign body, while the parasite employs new ways to maintain the connection with the host.7 (link)
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nebula – reminiscence
Nebula, 1996, Helen Chadwick, image via
It is a positive surprise to find Helen Chadwick quite a few times listed and recent publications on her work, thus memorizing the special sensation an encounter with her work left at the time, when she still had been around – introducing an ambivalence along a fine line …