reality addicts of manifold realities
transmediale 06 announced its theme (downloadable flyer as pdf) REALITY ADDICTS love reality. They can‘t get enough of culture and nature, of music and machines, images and words and people. They are dependent on and addicted to the manifold realities. REALITY ADDICTS demand more than the smooth surfaces of a medialised world, more than the […] Read Moreroomology
nice expression of an idea: Roomology – Rooms as Psychogeodynamic Objects (via) The short descriptive text spans its definition from highly metaphorical gothic catedrals, to Perry’s inventive jamaican audio lab, up to mind rooms – yet as for now does not include thoughts on the virtual space behind or better included within the rooms we […] Read Moreperceptions of tiger perception
via this savage minds’ link I discovered an interesting post (including the comments) and further articles about some scientific research results which again try to deepen the argument that a certain cultural education makes a person more oriented in reading an image by either focusing towards the center or adapting to a viewpoint which is […] Read More
processible code transposition of concept art
The idea of Matt Butler was to develope a processible translation which would be comparable to the structure of the early conceptual work ‘Schema‘ of Dan Graham into a consequent machine readable – thus in this case XML Code – version. M.Butler’s motor for the conversion can be traced in the reduced and highly concentrated […] Read Moregutterspaces – tracing abandoned structures
via urban cartograhy comes the link for the upcoming show (at Queens Museum) relating to Gordon Matta Clark’s Reality Properties: Fake Estates. This telling work not only speaks about abandoned sliced pieces of city spacings (and policies), but congruently commemorates exemplary his artistic practice and the conciousness of his works eventually due to the fact […] Read Moreexperiments in performing the moment of self
‘no breakthrough without breakdown‘ (to quote the last sentence from the – except for the title – german article Just be yourself! Which self? on Cassavetes) .. and … to continue (see former post) with the fluid and processual aspects of performance and attempts to not simply capture those but to make them visible as […] Read More
for the moment
It’s a nice short quote tempting me to take it out of its context – its ‘closed garden walled system’: In the techno-centric world, we relish persistence yet that is so antithetical to the way in which we normally negotiate the social world. Information production and identity performance are not the same thing even if […] Read Moreon mapping invisibility and ‘bridge blogger’
Via Savage Minds came another mapping idea: Vanishing Point consists of a map of the world connected to a database fed by news coming from several international newspapers. The visibility of each country on the map results from the quantity of media coverage the country receives, so those countries that do not make the news […] Read More
Code, Culture, Imagination
… that algorithmic code and computations can’t be separated from an often utopian cultural imagination that reaches from magic spells to contemporary computer operating systems. 1 “300,000 pages of code. Or 60 minutes of triple-X rubber-and-leather interactive bondage porno. [. . . ] And until you plug it in, you’ll just never know.†This dialogue […] Read Moreprivate as private can be
Last year’s winner at the Locarno festival Private, a feature film by Saverio Constanzo from 2004 based on real events, offers a thought provoking, psychological drama about a palestinian family experiencing occupation through Israeli soldiers in the limited and private territory of their own house: … Based on a real life situation (the family in […] Read Morere-location in liminal space
Usually I almost avoid to refer to texts, journals, magazines, etc .. which are not publicly available on the net, as for myself I experience it always as frustrating not to be able to retrace the named sources. In this case I want to make an exeption as the text I will refer to provides […] Read More