paradise now

Hany Abu-Assad’s film Paradise now , which follows for the period of 24 hours two friends living during an oppressive political crisis, who seek to make choices that will impact on a future they no longer believe in, has attracted quite some attention at the Berlinale festival. It won the Blue Angel award for best ...

emergences

imagine a position amidst – quite there: ... from this generated tapestry of visualisations emerges the projection engendered on the screen within … The following is an excerpt from an text by Norman Klein published on the new journal format of reblog:We also know that Freud and Jung ate in New York’s Chinatown that week. ...

mind is a world of information processing

Looking up a favorite quote I have kept in mind for a while … “In considering perception, we shall not say, for example, ‘I see a tree,’ because the tree [as such] is not within our explanatory system. At best, it is only possible to see an image which is a complex but systematic transform ...

WMD – Weapons of Mass Deception

via alternet.org: WMD: The MovieSynopsis: There were two wars going on in Iraq – one was fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and disarm WMDs – ...

another controversial film ‘The Hamburg Cell’ commissioned by Britain’s Channel 4 and co-produced by CBC Television explores the lives of the men behind the horrific terror attacs. It is worth to read this review to get an impression. Related posts:voice to Iraqis not represented in the news mediaSteve Reich .. and other events to memorizeMigMap ...

from basics …

Basic security panel at transmediale finally mostly focused on the dichotomy of security / insecurity and the self – reproductive processes inherent in those. Via an ‘Ecology of Fear’ evolving through what might be called today as living in a Risk Society Konrad Becker’s argument diagnosed that this redirects the colonisation of the outer space ...

immersion images

found here via boingboing an impressive tool to create total immersive images in real time rendering (watch the clip here) .... pfew … I wish I would have had a tool like this during the performative lecture (using real time green box effect) held at merz academy some time ago which was intended to show ...

transmediale basics

first impressions: permeable black walls divide this year’s transmediale exhibition part at the entrance foyer into a black cube system and this seems adequate to express the questions touched in the announcing information: ... Although technical products promise enhanced agency and security, we experience an increased disorientation: the ethical question of what one should do ...

tempted to link to crowds -

a nice and interesting post on space and culture about examining the importance of the crowd in the modern era:.. the web site for the Stanford Humanities Lab collaborative research project on “the rise and fall of the crowd—particularly the revolutionary crowd—in the Western sociopolitical imagination between 1789 and the present”. The site includes introductions ...