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reflecting stereotypes
The outline of ayo damali’s rent-a-negro project is designed close to the idea of ‘artistic service projects’* (‘Dienstleistungskunst‘) which became a bit infamous through overuse and limited concepts. But her project hits a specific nerve when people still can’t decide wether it is meant ironical or serious and go for renting a negro:It was thus ...
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.. a tale about humans between
.. the North and the south, about globalization, and about fish. Darwin’s Nightmare takes a magnifying look at issues around the said birthplace of mankind near Lake Victoria. By this just focussing on the very impacts of the discovery of a certain type of fish especially considered delicious in the West / rich countries it ...
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catching yourself from falling
Falling since a while seems to be a theme for art and film projects – there have been endless falling scenes cut together, the thematic of falling in general has been set up – and finally not to forget the cgrowing up robots which use that practice to gain their walking abilities. Thus I thought ...
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narrative filmic strategies go paradox: “- ./”
transmediale announced the award winners: .. among them colleteral surface which according to the jury justifies the decision as … The video uses Morse Code to visualize and sonify a section of the index from the book, “Point and Line to Plane”, written by Wassily Kandinsky in 1926. The project wants to interpolate the visual ...
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elsewhere – swarm
via GeneratorX – a very interesting project in both design and content – comes the information for the following exhibition.Swarm theory is an idea animating contemporary art, science, design, digital media, and social theory. “Swarm logic” is seen in works that use vast numbers of small parts to create systems whose final behavior or effect ...
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first view (& more) – transmediale 06 (UPDATED)
The discussions on defining new media still seem to be endless (just to recall the recent exchange on mailinglists after Olia Lialina had announced an update on the Wikipedia entry) – transmediale found another way to deal with it and states: ... digital media like video and electronic networks are now so wide-spread that a ...
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framings …
Out of context: ‘sorry u are under windows… of..a complex equation I guess…’ Bridging: A friend put into this into my IM when I was still thinking about flow and frames and the relvance of this following movie in context to the latest post. .. continuing: The video of Johnny Cash’s extraordinary interpretation of NIN’s ...
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memories / images – attempt of a complex equation
This entry posted some days ago on apophenia (her commenting that I’ve never been a good photographer because i’m more interested in creating memories than capturing) made me think again on the much stated (and as well by myself expressed thought) that taking photographs is set equal with not going through the whole experience like ...