Discourse of Display / Display of Discourse
The translate project continues its discussion on ‘visuality’ with the upcoming conference Another Visuality. The Discourse of Display / The Display of Discourse. This is the third part of a seminar which discussed the hypothesis of a possible relational paradigm as a critique of the representational paradigm at the centre of museum activity, that is […] Read Moreimpelled by the re-enactment of re/mediation
Wooster Group’s latest production ‘Hamlet’ is based – as they describe it themselve – on the reversal of Richard Burton’s Hamlet (1964), which was based on the idea of transferring a Broadway Production to cinema. But here they now rewind the process into an editing of the existing film to extract fragmentic pieces for construction […] Read Moremedia perspectives
.. continuing on media practises from different perspectives: After pointing to the important display of early media art in Madrid now some insights to media activism: In Memoirs of a Video Activist Joanne Richardson reflectes on media activism especially concerning Europe’s eastern areas and at the same time she clearly points out typical problems and […] Read MoreFirst Generation in media …
First Generation: Art and the Moving Image, 1963-1986 is the title of a recently opened show at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa, Madrid. It assembles early video and video performance work mainly focusing from their own collection with emphasis on specific approaches to the medium during the first 25 years. It includes […] Read More
POVs from a very different perspective
In an An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995) neurologist Oliver Sacks concludes that “defects, disorders, [and] diseases… can play a paradoxical role, by bringing out latent powers, developments, evolutions, forms of life that might never be seen, or even be imaginable, in their absence”. link The expression to be feeling like an ‘anthropolgist […] Read MoreMigMap – Europe’s present day migration policies
An interesting project in virtual catography with carefully done visualisations is MigMap – Governing Migration / A Virtual Cartography of European Migration Policies >>> link MigMap conveys a picture of how and where the production of knowledge is currently taking place in the area of migration – and of who is participating in and has […] Read Morelatent image / phenomenons of disappearance
The latent image is the invisible image, it is the image of light engraved on traditional photographic material. Technically speaking it is the image-to-become when developed in photographic emulsion. The stability of the latent image is limited, so that it might vanish if it does not get exposed. (see wikipedia) According to the work of […] Read More
get the subject to read …
eipcp (european institut for progressive cultural policies) has sent a new issue online. Even though this recent publication mostly collects from elder texts, like for example B.Holmes’ ‘The Flexible Personality’ among others, it unfolds into an interesting field under the title “Machines and subjectivation“: “Machines and subjectivation” develops central concepts of contemporary post-Marxist / post-structuralist […] Read Moretime based ‘present’
Claerbout’s proof and Present: .. real-time relates to real-life, but – and here comes a nice example – according to the complexity of rhetorics of temporal indexicality, it cannot be equated with it …download a flower .. Present responds to Claerbout’s struggle with the lack of body, or presence, on the internet, while building on […] Read More