following the eye

These days a link to the thesis of It’s in Your Eyes – Gaze Based Image Retrieval in Context got sent out via mailinglist and going across this tiny publication made me again think along the convictions and problems behind these developments. I just want excerpt some parts of the text and put it into […] Read More

space fragments in times of flow

via spaceandculture I found this short text by Felix Stadler, which makes some nice concise points in analysing the development and thus influence of the concept of space in times of flow …. (BTW … through passing this on along a line of via links the article shows its own movement through these indicators thus […] Read More

watch the watchers

Mary Ellen Carroll’s Federal examines the actions and notions of surveillance through photographs: it is the attempt to visualize the non-representable through the structure which appears at its very surface. (link) The title for the project is derived from the name of the structure, The Federal Building, located at 11000 Wilshire in Los Angeles, and […] Read More

Serpica Naro – San Precario

… continuing: Serpica Naro, the “collective granny” of alternative imaginary – emerging as an anagram of San Precario – was invented as an open meta-brand that any stylist from the “radical fashion” can use – basically emphasising: why save the world when you can design it ? … , the movement of temp and precarious […] Read More

precarity – precariousness

hm .. originally related to the former post and to find some more clearing aspects around the term ‘precarious’ I just had to realize that there already readers to be published around the theme intending the same on more profound level: metamute has just put together a specific reader on ‘precarious’ compiling two former issues. […] Read More

presentation

hmm… Sergej Eisenstein’s sketchbook has been made accessible in a very nice manner at Langlois Foundation. There are all the single pages enlarging by going over with the mouse and when clicking on them one gets a specific page with description, comment and magnifying glass … not a bad way to make something viewable online […] Read More

being blamed for a name / disappeared

“It’s a very common name in the Middle East and here. But now it’s evil.”- Osama Shalabi (composer)via a CBC note Being Osama is a film about prejudices just deduced by a name and the impact on peoples lifes …. see further comments and reviews:What’s in a name?” via Montreal Mirror, Daily Star review via […] Read More

borderline symptoms

.. quoting from a NYT supplement of the german newspaper SZ (link) titled ‘moods, madness and mania’ – which I could not find online: … Dr. Millon has helped revise the psychiatric manual, and he tells the story of borderline personality disorder. In the late 70s he was among a small group of psychiatrists and […] Read More