Stalking the Unseen

In its anouncement of the recent exhibition the Kunsthaus Zurich referes back to “The Responsive Eye”* show at the MOMA NYC in 1965 and as well to the known title ‘Expanded Cinema’ (pdf download). This does not sound too exciting, but includes a nice list of film screenings and artists/filmmakers – like from the rare […] Read More

chronicles of Tehran city life

Emilie Bickerton’s article ‘Squaring the Circle‘ in the recent issue of Vertigo focuses on the work of iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi who won with his film ‘Offside’, about women illegally entering football stadiums by dressing up as men, a silver bear at Berlinale this year. Drawing a wider circle on the circles the filmmaker’s narrative […] Read More

the attempt to make the I(o)T* heard

is the concern of Meghan Trainor’s recent project 16 Horsepower: 16 Horsepower is a performance piece in which I scan pieces of ceramic and graphite embedded with RFID tags to trigger different sounds from an audio database culminating in a series of tracks triggered by a RFID chip in my arm. This piece aims to […] Read More

updating …

.. my computer environment means a move which does not leave me much of my spare time for creative thinking .. thus apologies for rare posting .. nevertheless some recent updates: the Lanier article I posted a few days ago has now been also published in german through SZ .. and some advertisment as film […] Read More

extended definitions of war

.. coming across an interesting project which describes itself as to aim to oppose war and to call for a “desertion” from a war of words in which facts are created with such force in their communication and propaganda that they can no longer be challenged. The DICTIONARY OF WAR just started with its first […] Read More

the author as filmmaker on the hive mind

The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we’re devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots. (link) Jaron Lanier writes in his recent article for the edge about […] Read More

Creation of a meme …

These sheeps have been posted the last weeks all over, but now they became almost meta examples for the new outspreading meme* of crowdsourcing – let see how long it lasts ……… At least as rightfully mentioned here the neogolism should not be mixed up with commons-based peer production. the sheep market * What’s in […] Read More

beautiful losers

… not the worst to be mentioned in this documentation arte aires in two sequences or to be listed in this exhibiton which initiated obviously the extended arte docu. The film starts around the early Leonard Cohen’s novel with the same title and then collects from various fields like music, art, etc… whatever could be […] Read More

negate the negation

signandsight is one of the rare opportunities to read on german culture from a wider angle – which also includes the aspect to make it accessible in a different language. In general the site kind of reblogs feuilleton articles collected from various german magazines and newspapers. One aspect which makes it interesting is that it […] Read More