architectura non grata

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Recently due to the actual demolition of the ‘Palast der Republik’ politics around architecture here in Germany get some more attention – but still a curious division makes me wonder for the election of the ‘right’ criteria for a building to stay (at least as a reminding remainder) or go …brand avenue finally pointed with […] Read More

displaying word frequency

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… political speech has often been subject to analysis but this here is a nice discovery of an interesting application for tag clouds to visualize repetitive frequency (via infosthetics) Political rhetoric is one of the most interesting to analyse, because of the emophasis on using metaphors to convey various meanings within a speech. Our project […] Read More

on gaps and intervals

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Writing on A.Kiarostami‘s early fim ‘First Case / Second Case‘ B. Afrassiabi and N. Tabatabai draw interesting conclusion on the production of knowledge and the allowance of ambivalent openings of spaces (gaps) as necessary for the emergence of differently routed discourses. However, symbolic representations start to lose their context when every experience hints at their […] Read More

illuminating in fragments

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highlighting from the update to the post below: Iraq In Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in verité style, with no scripted narration, the film powerfully explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis: people whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations, and […] Read More

bagdad bridges

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the chutry experiment recently publishes a lot of remarkable information on various projects and films on Iraq which attempt to catch up for a different angle than most of the media presents today. An update with collected links will follow later the day. Just for the moment to publish this post I stored already a […] Read More

real virtuality

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A really readworthy consideration emerging from re-thinking development and processes around media festivals and especially in regards of this year’s transmediale (and it’s predecessors) comes via Armin Medosch’s post Good Bye Reality! How Media Art Died But Nobody Noticed (subtitled: Subjective notes about Transmediale 2006) at mazine.ws. … If media art was understood as mainly […] Read More

X-change

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Note about Nancy Nisbet’s very interesting performance project playing on several levels comes via PSLJ. Exchange will trade Nisbet’s personal belongings freely through Canada, the United States and Mexico in a commercial transport truck to emphasis on the following aspects: •An extended cross-border performance confronting issues of free trade •A critique of the use of […] Read More

reflecting stereotypes

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The outline of ayo damali‘s rent-a-negro project is designed close to the idea of ‘artistic service projects’* (‘Dienstleistungskunst‘) which became a bit infamous through overuse and limited concepts. But her project hits a specific nerve when people still can’t decide wether it is meant ironical or serious and go for renting a negro: It was […] Read More

.. a tale about humans between

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.. the North and the south, about globalization, and about fish. Darwin’s Nightmare takes a magnifying look at issues around the said birthplace of mankind near Lake Victoria. By this just focussing on the very impacts of the discovery of a certain type of fish especially considered delicious in the West / rich countries it […] Read More

catching yourself from falling

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Falling since a while seems to be a theme for art and film projects – there have been endless falling scenes cut together, the thematic of falling in general has been set up – and finally not to forget the cgrowing up robots which use that practice to gain their walking abilities. Thus I thought […] Read More

elsewhere – swarm

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via GeneratorX – a very interesting project in both design and content – comes the information for the following exhibition. Swarm theory is an idea animating contemporary art, science, design, digital media, and social theory. “Swarm logic” is seen in works that use vast numbers of small parts to create systems whose final behavior or […] Read More