on: Organization and Representation of Violence
Under Fire was a one year long ongoing mailinglist project initiated by Jordan Crandall with invited participants (among them Susan Buck-Morss, Brian Holmes, Eyal Weizman .. and many others) discussing the role that representations play as registers of symbolic meaning and as agents of affective change. The online event was accompanied by a symposium and […] Read Moreinvention of the unreal
I got attracted by discovering the novel La invencion de Morel (1940) by the Argentinean author Adolfo Bioy Casares. It is the description how an anonymous fugitive arrives at a desert island and has to realize that a mysterious group of ‘characters’ suddenly appear on the island. The narrator tries in vain to come into […] Read Morethe corporation
.. as in germany the anti-capitalism discussion suddenly became ‘salonfähig’ / ‘presentable’ within the official political scene (for whatever reasons) it might be helpful to look at it in a more global relation. The film ‘The Corporation‘ presents an evolution of the conceptual terminology corporation from the 19th century up to now and includes interviews […] Read Moremarginalized voice
… taking up the viewpoint of a person whose voice would be marginalized … is according to filmaker J.Maston the subject of his project Maria full of grace. His film is said to be based on a 1000 stories listened to during the research period and picks up a detailed authenticity which looks like one […] Read More
… / nevertheless some progress
trying to update here .. thus there might be some changes, switches, flaws ..etc.. in interface appearance .. so far front page there / but only on firefox so IE and ….. still sorry for the bug on mac … UPDATE: archives almost done and info to follow … at least it looks like I […] Read More
living in paradox
ars electronica plans on the Hybrid: Hybrid–living in paradox (programmatic statement) Hybrid […] in biology […] has two meanings. The first meaning is either the offspring of two different species, or of two different genera. The second meaning of “hybrid” is crosses between populations or cultivars (“cultivated varieties”) of a single species. Hybrid — made […] Read More
embodiment in autosummarizing
Our economic and social reality is defined less by material objects that are made and consumed than by co-produced services and relationships... this is one part of the autosummarized text, while the following quote is an excerpt from the longer post published at go-one (uber.tv) titled autosummarize before the action of the software took place. […] Read MoreDocumentary Campaign
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participatory culture
.. is the idea for a decentralized independent video platform that will let people broadcast and watch channels at virtually no cost. (Link) Read More
after announcing
a conference in Toronto on the visible city recently now its the subject of the invisible in Montreal: … constructing around a still of Chris Marker’s La Jetée the 7th edition of the Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique, Montreal has set up their website announcing the project Cité Invisible/Invisible City which … will reveal […] Read More
the first 2 seconds …
.. BLINK – ; ) … you are already beyond those when you are reading here … eventually lead by some intuitional attraction … So a similar unconcious appeal might have got me interested to read a review this weekend on blink a book (listen to a IT conversation with the autor M.Gladwell) which basically […] Read MoreCALL CUTTA – mobile phone theatre
CALL CUTTA: walk through the city, the show is at the phone … so then it is just logically that I found a postcard about that project by walking outside on this nice day. Don’t know what caught my attention to pick it up … call cutta – walking through the city with remote guidance […] Read More