from basics …
Basic security panel at transmediale finally mostly focused on the dichotomy of security / insecurity and the self – reproductive processes inherent in those. Via an ‘Ecology of Fear’ evolving through what might be called today as living in a Risk Society Konrad Becker‘s argument diagnosed that this redirects the colonisation of the outer space […] Read More
immersion images
found here via boingboing an impressive tool to create total immersive images in real time rendering (watch the clip here) ….pfew … I wish I would have had a tool like this during the performative lecture (using real time green box effect) held at merz academy some time ago which was intended to show and […] Read Moretransmediale basics
first impressions: permeable black walls divide this year’s transmediale exhibition part at the entrance foyer into a black cube system and this seems adequate to express the questions touched in the announcing information: … Although technical products promise enhanced agency and security, we experience an increased disorientation: the ethical question of what one should do […] Read More
tempted to link to crowds –
a nice and interesting post on space and culture about examining the importance of the crowd in the modern era: .. the web site for the Stanford Humanities Lab collaborative research project on “the rise and fall of the crowd — particularly the revolutionary crowd — in the Western sociopolitical imagination between 1789 and the […] Read More
.. going Berlin ???
some points for those coming or being in town the next days …. BASICS – starting from tomorrow transmediale 05 interrogates: what are the BASICS of your culture? is your reality digital or analogue? are you ethical or aesthetical? transmediale is the biggest and most significant festival for art and the creative usage of digital […] Read More
crystal image – continuing the unthinkable
In a recent post I pointed to some threads of thought from an article by Colin Gardner which I experienced as highly interesting for its effort to deduce a theory of multiplicity within the visual from a synthesis of Bergsonian and Deleuzian terms and interpretations. In the following excerpt he continues to outline his thought […] Read More
on visualization of the non-perceivable
Mobile technologies increasingly unfold new layers onto the problem of perception which already accumulated further complexity through digitization. The issue of visualization for these technologies touches not only the understanding of the consequences of their impact on our social behaviour and environment, though it relates at the same time to core problems of the representative […] Read MoreEyes on Screen
Related to the recently mentioned limitations and difficulties especially documentary filmakers face due to outdated copyright issues comes this call for action. It offers and asks to distribute further digital versions of Eyes on the Prize, one of the films which screenings are most affected through – as the The Washington Post* (*bugmenot) put it: […] Read More
linking mob art
Netzwissenschaft has put together extensive link collections on two entrance pages ( page 1 and page 2) for mob art. Read Morenarrate to create space for re-narration
Bab Al-Shams (The Gate of the Sun) the recent epic film by Yousry Nasrallah after Elias Khoury’s book to tell the story of Palestinians received an extensive review on Al-Ahram weekly and I leave the space to quote from there: … Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note. Khalil, child of the […] Read More
updated ! .. reminder
for the start of the 5th world social forum in Porto Alegro on 26.01., which links me to related thoughts expressed in the recent ‘Le monde diplomatique‘ issue in a comment by Ignacio Ramonet on the already vanishing attention for the tsunami impact: The level of need exposed by the tsunami demonstrates that humanitarian generosity, […] Read More