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Image of sound – you don’t need a TV of your own …
.. to watch football here in Berlin. Instead it is getting harder to escape the constant buzz about football and not to feel guilty of not joining the steady parties gathering around the still all over the city emerging screens and monitors. It seems almost no bar, coffee place, restaurant and as well private …
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Stalking the Unseen
In its anouncement of the recent exhibition the Kunsthaus Zurich referes back to “The Responsive Eye”* show at the MOMA NYC in 1965 and as well to the known title ‘Expanded Cinema’ (pdf download). This does not sound too exciting, but includes a nice list of film screenings and artists/filmmakers – like from the …
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chronicles of Tehran city life
Emilie Bickerton’s article ‘Squaring the Circle’ in the recent issue of Vertigo focuses on the work of iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi who won with his film ‘Offside’, about women illegally entering football stadiums by dressing up as men, a silver bear at Berlinale this year. Drawing a wider circle on the circles the filmmaker’s …
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the attempt to make the I(o)T* heard
is the concern of Meghan Trainor’s recent project 16 Horsepower:16 Horsepower is a performance piece in which I scan pieces of ceramic and graphite embedded with RFID tags to trigger different sounds from an audio database culminating in a series of tracks triggered by a RFID chip in my arm. This piece aims to …
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updating …
.. my computer environment means a move which does not leave me much of my spare time for creative thinking .. thus apologies for rare posting ..
nevertheless some recent updates: the Lanier article I posted a few days ago has now been also published in german through SZ
.. and some advertisment as film tip …
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extended definitions of war
.. coming across an interesting project which describes itself as to aim to oppose war and to call for a “desertion” from a war of words in which facts are created with such force in their communication and propaganda that they can no longer be challenged.
The DICTIONARY OF WAR just started with its first …
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the author as filmmaker on the hive mind
The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we’re devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots. (link)Jaron Lanier writes in his recent article for the edge about …