the concept of the other

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.. usually I try to not point to items which one needs to buy, order, pay a fee .. etc to be able to access them fully on this medium and form of a blog which lives from being freely accessible to those who have at least access to computers. But in this case the […] Read More

arna’s children

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The film Arna’s children … tells the story of a theatre group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis. Arna comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative education system for children whose regular life was disrupted by the Israeli […] Read More

addressing the reactionary present

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Bruno Latour specifies in an interview blogged on Re-public his point of view of our approach in so called modernity ‘We never have been modern“, which was one of his earlier book titles: If science studies is right in erasing the divide between nature and society, it remains true that the readers of those work […] Read More

Imagination becomes Reality Conclusion

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Imagination becomes Reality Conclusion is the title of a recent ZKM show and the among the published online excerpts from the catalogue texts the one written by Peter Weibel provides the most promising analytical attitude: The visual world is what is visible, which exists unmediatized as well. Pictures are mediatized both by the support media […] Read More

Real Bad Hollywood

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Reel Bad Arabs, is a 2006 documentary directed by Sut Jhally which is based on the book of the internationally acclaimed author and media critic, Dr. Jack G. Shaheen, whose specific topic is the extensive research of the misrepresentation of Arabs and Muslims in film, particularly movies coming out of Hollywood. The political art journal […] Read More

Outside <> Inside: Lygia Clark

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> Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica: A Legacy of Interactivity and Participation for a Telematic Future. The work of both has been shown in Europe during Documenta X in 1997 and more recently under the title ‘Tropicalia‘ – the name of the 1960s the brasilian art movement. Just recently I came across some texts and […] Read More

Baudrillard left for real

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Some newspapers already put up short notes about Baudrillard’s death. Still it will take time to understand thouroughly not only the thoughts he spread, but also to reflect on the moment in time he took to connect the threads to rethink the modes of mediation and technological communication and define his concept of ‘hyperreality‘ .. […] Read More

viewing the gaze

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The MOMA’s current show on Jeff Wall displays as well a selction of images online. Among them the often mentioned Picture for Women, 1979, which is worth a bit closer look. Jeff Wall himself describes his work on the MOMA online exhibition page as following: Picture for Women (1979) is a remake of Manet’s picture. […] Read More

M/E/A/N/I/N/G …

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“…to be passive is to be active; those also serve who remain outside. By making their absence felt, their presence becomes desirable.” Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas … pretty nice sentence and fitting in a way still regarding terms of media issues .. and also in the sense meant where I took in from: … for […] Read More

McLuhan Salon and other transmedial updates

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Visitors of the transmediale 07 might not miss the McLuhan Salon established at the Canadian Embassy near Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The small arrangement displays currently on 4 displays excerpts of McLuhan Films – mainly Interview excerpts or parts of lectures. There are also some displays to explore two interactive CD-ROMs and several headphones installed […] Read More