invitations to explore the disparate

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These calls of drain are already around for a while but as just so appropriate to some recent posts and thoughts on occasionally inherent excluding strategies of networking I appreciate them as invitations for a discussion and involvement of the disparate: … of syncretism – the reconciliation of disparate beliefs, systems of thought and forms […] Read More

Between Nomadology, the War Machine …

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.. and the State: A Deleuzian Analysis of the Film, USA the Movie “Filmed between 9/11 and the beginning of the Iraqi invasion, it’s a unique film, rhizomic its structure, nomadic in its movement. As a document that is part contemporary history, part biography, part morality play, and part allegory, USA the Movie is arguably […] Read More

on swarming and other take over tactics

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The recent 3-day event of Ersatzstadt (only german) occured the second time throughout a 2 year period within the city of Berlin – this time at Volksbühne – attempting to re-define/evaluate the term of the city under the title ‘Repräsentationen des Urbanen‘ (representaions of the urban). The event took a specified emphasis – according to […] Read More

through spaces

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… is one of the meanings of the word fadaiat in arabic. A event named after it which tries to operate between the borders of fortress Europe and North Africa has been just announced to take place for a second time in June 2005. The website providing the material of the 2004 event relates to […] Read More

The Cinema Effect

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film-philosophy published a recent review of Sean Cubitt’s The Cinema Effect which made me curious enough to look for further reviews. I just post a few excerpts from different sources as I haven’t read the book yet, but think it sounds very promising for the discourse of those who are concerened on re-thinking the digital […] Read More

the medieval/contemporary as dance/opera

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Tonight one was allowed to follow on TV (arte) through the piece Foi (Faith) by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a performance piece that is the result of a collective collaboration involving dancers and music played live on stage. It is a collaboration between Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui of Les Ballets C. de la B. and Dirk Snellings […] Read More

continuing … Creative Capital Channel

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First: .. apologies for long no-post-period … I will come back into track within the next days and adjust to more frequent postings again eventhough still having a moving ahead. Meanwhile just one of the promised link in connection with the Lessig ideas of CC – The Creative Capital Channel a collecting site for creative […] Read More

summer mood of mobtagging

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mediamatic plans a workshop on the technic and impact of mobtagging under the subtitle ‘ Collective Intelligence through the exchange of Metadata’ Mobtagging is called “a revolution in the use of the web.” The expectations are high: it makes information structures extremely flexible and easily adaptable to changing environments. Information is structured along similarities found […] Read More

mapping and relating mainstream news

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Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. It comes along via pasta and vinegar who comments on it the following: These sort of map are more and more relevant with regard to the increasing amount of information we are dealing with (or at least infojunkies are […] Read More

on: pistols, railroads and european imagination

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Lawrence Lessig was invited to Berlin to discuss the ideas concerning his view on new technologies, accompanied by a comment from Peter Baldwin. The talk was organized by the bpb (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) as part of a new series ‘Kontinentaldrift 3.0’ and announced under the title ‘Pistols and Railroads in the American West’ which […] Read More

Limit-Telephotography

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Trevor Paglen describes Limit-Telephotography on his website as trying to uncover what is commonly described with the cliché “out of sight, out of mind”. His site provides material on areas which are that exceptionally hidden or cordoned-off that they are simply impossible to see with the unaided eye. His entire project attempts to provide a […] Read More

continuing on frames

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Unexpected Launching of Heavy Objects (link) is a work of Peter Hovarth submitted to the wartime project . Beautifully done, with some nice moments of timing it also calls up the memory of elder works of ‘net-art’ which play with poping up frames – (just this one here closes them even again) … This one […] Read More

lost in translation or the différance of perfection

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.. or deciphered as: Lost in translation points to the absence of the ideal. drain magazine published again an interesting opening article in its recent issue Lost In Translation. Gregory Minissale embarks in his essay from Vermeer’s The Lacemaker as an examplary translation of mental activity – transfered into the inbetween spaces of the lace […] Read More

lost art of screaming

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In times of delegation Amy Alexander/deprogramming.us will let you go screaming – if you download the ‘tool’ your screen will answer you … Scream disturbs your Windows interface. But it isn’t aimed just at computer frustrations. In a world where “anger” is paired with “management,” Scream encourages the return to prominence of the lost art […] Read More