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introducing a political science of video
It was a really busy weekend for Berlin in terms of cultural events and due to overlappings one had to make decisions where to go. Therefore I had to skip the unitednationsplaza event, not because of lack of interest, but lack of time, as the attended symposium, which accompanied the exhibition ‘Art of Projection’, ...
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Whoever claims authorship is not the author …
This statement comes via the press release for Anonymous, which is the title of an upcoming show at the Schirn in Frankfurt.
It makes one wonder, if finally some of the discussion around open source, copyleft, .. etc came through to them??
On the other side – as one always would expect that the art … -
Catch a Fire
.... any similarities, assoziations, ...? ... whatever comes to mind …
This film about Southafrica sounds interesting enough and it’s not at all just posted for the accumulation of similar post titles, even though there seems to be a line …Fears of terrorism. Demonization of an “other.” Suspects detained without explanation, held in isolation, ... -
… UF continued:
ok, I admit: I spend quite some time at the moment to read the posts on UNDER FIRE. I guess its general theme just became too inevitable in these times of ongoing wars to be ignored. And aside the fact that the military sector does show most clearly effects of new technologies, interpretations …
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under fire again
Jordan Crandall’s UNDER FIRE mailinglist started into a new season of discourse: UNDER FIRE is an ongoing art and research project that explores militarization and political violence. It delves into the structural, symbolic, and affective dimensions of armed conflicts: the organization, representation, and materialization of war.This time the project publishes its major contributions on …
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Unfallen – the city as mnemonic
Daniel Belasco Rogers’ GPS recordings of his recent journeys developed into a project he called ‘Unfallen’ – and for which he produced some really nice maps which show besides personel moving/learning processes also a relations according to the taken angle.
Out of this developed the recent project ‘Our House’ an attempt of mapping/visualiation of personal … -
Steve Reich .. and other events to memorize
.. not to be forgotten should be Steve Reich’s 70th birthday at the beginning of the month and my incredible luck to attend a performing of ‘Drumming’ with him and his musicians about a week ago. He is recently touring around the world and summarizes that he would never had thought even slightly about …