Guy Debord : comments on the Society of the Spectacle

February 08, 2022 in resources

… intoxicating (ed)

“a society measured / the privilege of access”

December 10, 2021 in resources

Mathematical phenomena

A 1965 manual for ALGOL-20 / image file: 1965 ALGOL-20 A Language Manual, Fierst et al - cover.jpg (Description: English: Priručnikza programski jezik Algol / Date 17 February 2010, 11:12:12 / Source Own work / Author Zvezdica2816)

Counterpractice

September 19, 2016 in resources

http://counterpractice.com/ http://libraryoftheprintedweb.tumblr.com

The viewer (or the camera as a ‘viewer proxy’) is already divided, or apart, or opposite from its subject. The viewer is inside the world of course, but the structure of immanence is not in effect. Rather, a structure of distance, difference, relationality predominates.

Matt Mullican: Beyond the Planetarium

August 10, 2016 in resources

Planetarium: Matt Mullican

"I went from being surrounded by things—dealing with how we name them and how we experience our environment through naming—to the opposite end of the spectrum: starting with nothing, then calling the objects into being."

—Matt Mullican, "Planetarium"

A digital project, part of And Yet It Moves

Matt Mullican was born in 1951 and currently resides in Berlin. Working in performance, installation, digital technology, and sculpture, and employing tools ranging from hypnosis to cartography, Mullican seeks to develop a cosmological system based on his personal visual and symbolic vocabulary. His work has been exhibited extensively in the US and internationally.

timeline of 2oth c. art and new media

July 28, 2016 in resources

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http://www.ramakarl.com/website/

Rama Hoetzlein is an interactive media artist and computer scientist working in the areas of knowledge engineering and behavioral systems. I seek to develop the theoretical foundations of new media arts, and to explore the design, limitations, and capabilities of intelligent systems. My goal is to enable convergence between these dynamic digital systems and the processes of physical making, building and interaction. [source:http://www.ramakarl.com/website/contact/]

http://www.rchoetzlein.com/website/artmap/

jon rafman

July 21, 2016 in resources

[vimeo 100324610 w=640 h=360] Mainsqueeze, 2014

Bizarrely beautiful and shockingly real and affronting canadian video artist jon rafman's work redefines the classical notions of surreal in the techno-digital world we live in today. Caught between a sense of longing for the real to be far more than we believe it can be, his works echo to a moment in time when memories somehow intertwine with our future and strangely seem to evade the present. Re-creating narratives from appropriated gaming footage and re-mixed with original video works he plays with the notion of memory (or is it fantasy) through internet-ubiquity, video-game culture and the fracturing of the real by layering voice-over narratives to redefine the visual experience. Mainsqueeze from 2014 seems to deviate slightly from his game fetish parallels. Here he jump-cuts through sub-culture identity issues, selfishness and digital alter-realities and employs a washing machine to possibly act as a metaphor for societies self imploding overload of 'machine-obsession' resulting from our ubiquitous informational visual engagement - or maybe its just a symmetrical observation of the innevitable cycle of life.

" JR: I find the myth of the irretrievable past to be a very fertile tool in art. I’m interested in the Proustian qualities of certain memory triggers, especially in the form of media that one consumes or interacts with as a child. In Sticky Drama I was using nostalgia as a tool—cultural reference points from the 1980s and ’90s function as a common language for those who grew up with them. The use of nostalgia in Sticky Drama is a manipulative device. It is meant to highlight how the aura of these cultural signifiers is always slipping away. In a Benjaminian way, I simultaneously celebrate and mourn its loss". (source: vdrome)

links:

http://jonrafman.com https://vimeo.com/jonrafman http://www.vdrome.org/rafman-lopatin.html

partly via : https://patrkhenry.wordpress.com