CALL CUTTA – mobile phone theatre
CALL CUTTA: walk through the city, the show is at the phone … so then it is just logically that I found a postcard about that project by walking outside on this nice day. Don’t know what caught my attention to pick it up … call cutta – walking through the city with remote guidance […] Read More
Virtual Narrations
via networked performance comes a link for Söke Dinkla’s essay Virtual Narrations which explores artistic approaches of narrative structures in the west starting with a stated crisis around 1900 to digitized versions of the modern area of the 80s and 90s. …At the same time, modified forms of narration pay tribute to the transformation of […] Read More
Assemblies via VLSC
Fair Assembly wants to make things public (zkm). The introduction establishes a comparison to the experiences of bringing-publics-together on World Fairs – described as events one only wants to participate in with some inner distance, a wish which eventually isn’t that easy to fulfill anymore. Consequently taking up the terminology of Very Large Scale Conversations […] Read More
Visible City
hm… sounds nice to be there: at the images festival in Toronto with a symposium on the Visible City with speakers like Kaja Silverman on how to perceive the unseeable and WJT Mitchell on The War of Images, 2001–present. In general it announces: A two-day series of lectures and panels bringing together cultural theorists, architects […] Read More
‘Fear and space’
is the title of a new book which triggered my attention as for sure it is not only their assumption that fear is everywhere, dominating public discussion, driving the political debate, making us long for times gone by.. The book describes projects, research and performances of a group of young designers and architects which tried […] Read More
issues
1) … there are suddenly some problems with firefox here and I haven’t figured it out yet …. sorry for that UPDATE: .. ok slightly improved again except for the old flaws and missing trackback .. 2) I just came across to know that issue on wordpress’ advertising practise via Danah Boyd and think she […] Read More
immaterial evidence
We look to the subatomic level for evidence of a new uncharted territory or a new sublime only at the risk of ignoring how all that is perceivable may be or has already been encoded as a proprietary interest. The electrons can play all they want, but we aggregates may find ourselves seduced by the […] Read More
filling in the blanks
Performance artist Daniela Sneppova’s text transmute has been published in the online journal ephemera as an interactive reading / translating experience. The following introduces the essay of her process oriented experiment – showing an understanding of the performative in general as an active communicative process. It is an awareness of laborating on various level of […] Read More
shifting space
.. an interesting find: the project description of a game concept following Lewis Carrol’s novel Through the Looking Glass: … the novel merges but never collapses physical spaces, fantasy worlds, and simulated environments. The novel is composed of vivid scenes, mediated by extreme transformations. The spaces between scenes are marked by gaps and abstractions, by […] Read More
continuing on representation
Latour states in the mentioned introduction to ‘Making Things Public‘ that the claim of the crisis of representation aside all technical layerings and general codings arises from a demand it can’t fulfill The problem is that transparent, unmediated, undisputable facts have recently become rarer and rarer. To provide complete undisputable proof has become a rather […] Read More