medium – message relations
… and as a more relaxing note just an anecdotal quote from G.Gould and his friendship with M.McLuhan by an analysis regarding their different relations towards the medium and the message (;)): A mention of Marshall McLuhan reminds me of something which Glenn once said to me. I knew him extremely well. I knew him […] Read More
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Sorrily, due to those stupid increasingly ignorant mass-spammers I had to turn on moderation for every trackback and comment again for the moment. I hate most about their respectless attitude, that it forces one to draw tighter lines for the other, all-time welcome, comments and remarks … Read More
currently missing … ‘A Reaffirmation of Principle’
via the recent very interesting post at newsgrist I found this text, worth a read through, ‘Bush’s Useful Idiots’ at the London Review of Books. The text is not only interesting as a reference to the 1988 ad mentions, and as well for an understanding of the American intellectual situation – it as well goes […] Read Morelife in 3D
.. for a sleepy sunday and to abbreviate the waiting phase for a chance to see Gondry’s ‘The science of Sleep‘ it is quite entertaining to explore the official website (french) and already exsisting excerpts at you tube .. Sweet, crazy, and tinged with sadness, Michel Gondry’s new feature The Science of Sleep is a […] Read MoreINFERMENTAL – International – Fermentum – Mental
– … currently exhibited at the ZKM medialounge is an overview of the archived material of this first international magazine on videocassettes which gets accompanied by an online database accessible at www.infermental.de. ‘Infermental’ was the first international videocassette magazine that published video artworks in part or whole, trailers, and reports (lasting 1-20 minutes) from around […] Read More
Invisible Cinema
.. as the below mentioned exhibition takes most of its material and associations from the bigger Hollywood productions it is nice to come across this republished Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto of Jonas Mekkas at / and on / Invisible Cinema. As you well know it was God who created this Earth and everything on […] Read More‘Im Kino gewesen. Geweint.’
Kafka’s diary note still speaks to people and defines one of their most characteristic experiences with cinema. This take stands also for one of the major entrance points the recent exhibition ‘Movies on the mind. / Kino im Kopf‘ at the Filmmuseum in Berlin counts on. (accompanying film program at the arsenal cinema) … the […] Read More
making lemonade
via apophenia I came across the disentanglement of the lonelygirl15 experiment … more episodes They are telling their story, truth or fiction. Of course, this makes many people very uncomfortable. They want blogs and YouTube and MySpace to be Real with a capital R. Or they want it to be complete play. Yet, what’s happening […] Read Moreprotective dressings
Adriana Bertini (Brazil) showed her dresses made of unusable condoms at the recent AIDS Conference in Toronto: DeRose (executive director of The Condom Project) said that creating wearable art out of condoms attracts people who normally wouldn’t wear the prophylactics, let alone touch them or even utter the word. (link) Read More1st world media event
This saturday Berlin hosted Dropping Knowledge’s (blog:droppingknowledge.org) ‘The Table of Free Voices‘ event: This “Table of Free Voices” is an unusual technological and social experiment in freedom of expression, which may reveal more more about mass media games and informational battlegrounds than providing a penetrating archive of diverse voices regarding critical global issues. The obstacle […] Read More
analysing media output
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land, a documentary focusing on the Israel – Palestine conflict, already has been published by The Media Education Foundation in 2004, but gives still an impression and critical analysis how via media output – opinions / world views are created and influenced which is very worth seeing: Peace, Propaganda & […] Read More