get the subject to read …

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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 More

time based ‘present’

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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

occurance of the ‘other time’

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In his talk ‘Heterochronia*: Projections of Temporality’ Thomas Y. Levin pointed out some interesting issues occuring through the increasing hybridity of the image provoked by the synthetical processes of the digital. A short simplification could put it the way that through the shift of the photochemical to digital the traditionaly assumed indexicality of the shot […] Read More

introducing a political science of video

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It was a really busy weekend for Berlin in terms of cultural events and due to overlappings one had to make decisions where to go. Therefore I had to skip the unitednationsplaza event, not because of lack of interest, but lack of time, as the attended symposium, which accompanied the exhibition ‘Art of Projection‘, took […] Read More

Catch a Fire

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…. any similarities, assoziations, …? … whatever comes to mind … This film about Southafrica sounds interesting enough and it’s not at all just posted for the accumulation of similar post titles, even though there seems to be a line … Fears of terrorism. Demonization of an “other.” Suspects detained without explanation, held in isolation, […] Read More

… UF continued:

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ok, I admit: I spend quite some time at the moment to read the posts on UNDER FIRE. I guess its general theme just became too inevitable in these times of ongoing wars to be ignored. And aside the fact that the military sector does show most clearly effects of new technologies, interpretations of scocial […] Read More

under fire again

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Jordan Crandall’s UNDER FIRE mailinglist started into a new season of discourse: UNDER FIRE is an ongoing art and research project that explores militarization and political violence. It delves into the structural, symbolic, and affective dimensions of armed conflicts: the organization, representation, and materialization of war. This time the project publishes its major contributions on […] Read More

Unfallen – the city as mnemonic

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Daniel Belasco Rogers’ GPS recordings of his recent journeys developed into a project he called ‘Unfallen‘ – and for which he produced some really nice maps which show besides personel moving/learning processes also a relations according to the taken angle. Out of this developed the recent project ‘Our House‘ an attempt of mapping/visualiation of personal […] Read More

it’s important that you attend

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“Information presented at the right time and in the right place can potentially be very powerful. It can affect the general social fabric… The working premise is to think in terms of systems: the production of systems, the interference with and the exposure of existing systems… Systems can be physical, biological or social.” from Jeanne […] Read More

more on ‘performing lectures’

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.. already since July 2004 Unfriendly Takeover are presenting their project called “Performing Lectures”. A series of investigative performances aiming to explore the practical and theoretical possibilities and borders of lecture performances. For some years now, even decades, there is talk about the fusion of artistic practice and its theory, about the crossing of the […] Read More

failing the Greenberg test: net art

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.. via several mailing lists and blogs the ‘Art of Sleep‘ presented by Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is being past around. It is but worth to look up their website as well. … Commissioned to coincide with Frieze, the hottest art fair at a particularly market-driven moment, The Art of Sleep features an insomniac narrator […] Read More

performance lectures

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.. via tropolism I found this interesting post on Smithson’s Hotel Palenque. It is a very detailed description about some essential points Robert Smithon‘s work with a specific focus on this hotel piece and its presentation at the Guggenheim. And it raises a good point in the following observation at a time, when artists increasingly […] Read More