Islam in Europe / arabs and terrorism

Hm …. there is hope for a change after Obama’s recent speech which the german magazine ‘Der Spiegel’ announced as A ‘NEW BEGINNING’ IN CAIRO, but certainly it won’t work without looking into one’s own preconceptions. While in NYC the NYPL & The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) present “ISLAM IN …

Wealth of Nations

... meant ironically or in quest of a new meaning ??? Clear is so far, that the headline refers to an interesting exhibition and conference just takes place right now in Novi Sad under the title ‘Wealth of Nations’, which wants to bring together Art, Theory, Social Sciences and Economics, Cultural Studies and Finance …

inescapable experience of process oriented research

Relating to my own experience I am always interested into projects, which attempt to make use of new media techniques for their realization. To establish a blog aside a current undertaking meanwhile almost became a common habit. Thus not so many of these projects really managed to make appropriate use of the tools they …

DNA of a film

Cinema Redux by Brendan Dawes is an attempt to get a visual analysis of a film by reducing it to a single image. The artist himself describes his work the following:This explores the idea of distilling a whole film down to one single image. Using eight of my favourite films from eight of my …

As the Hammer Strikes

Some online research after coming across this nice and unexpected Wittgenstein quote

“In the actual use of expressions we make detours, we go by side-roads. We see the straight highway before us, but of course we cannot use it, because it is permanently closed.”
(Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1953)

lead me to another interesting piece dealing …

Performativity of the Line

“A line for the pleasure of being a line, of going ahead, as a line. Points. Dust of points. A line is dreaming. Before then, no one had ever let a line dream.”

This quote of H.Michaux from ‘Adventures of Lines’ (org. ‘Aventures de lignes’) opens Laura U.Marks essay ‘Taking a line for a walk, ...

Human Camera

During my recent visit to London at the end of March I spent some time at the ‘Altermodern’ show at the Tate, I came across the work of Lindsay Seers for the first time. Was it indeed the first time? The work addresses a deeper level of memento and recalls that type of memory, ...