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The Image Book (2018) — The Seventh Art
“Before the talkies, silent films had a materialist starting point. The actor said: I am (filmed) therefore I think (at least I think of the fact that I am being filmed), it’s because I exist that I think. After the talkies, there was a New Deal between the matter being filmed (the actor) and thought. […]…
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MTAA: the art happens here
[link] On Rhizome : October 27 – a major new initiative on Net Art Anthology [link]
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Art is a Form of Encryption:
Laura Poitras in Conversation with Lynn Hershman Leeson | PEN America https://pen.org/interview/laura-poitras-conversation-lynn-hershman-leeson Long before the digital revolution and virtualization of identities became part of our everyday lives, American artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson created surrogate personas and investigated issues of surveillance, interfacing of humans and technology, and media as a tool to counter censorship…
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Matt Mullican: Beyond the Planetarium
“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“ Planetarium: Matt Mullican A digital project, part of And Yet It Moves Matt Mullican was born in 1951 and currently…
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Rebels
His Excellency Francisco da Costa Gomes, ComTE, GOA (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku dɐ ˈkɔʃtɐ ˈɡomɨʃ]; 30 June 1914, in Chaves – 31 July 2001, in Lisbon, Lapa) was a Portuguese military officer and politician, the 15th President of the Portuguese Republic (the second after the Carnation Revolution). [source: wikepedia and DuckDuckGo image search] For most of us in…
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R.I.P Hema Upadhyay
[image] Hema Upadhyay, “Modernization” (photo by Anil Rane, image courtesy Chemould Prescott Road and the artist) The Important Work of Indian Artist Hema Upadhyay, Murdered at 42 by Anuradha Vikram on December 15, 2015 News of artist Hema Upadhyay’s death in Mumbai over the weekend has stunned the international art community. Upadhyay, 42, was a painter and mixed media artist who…
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Silicon Valley exploits time and space to extend the frontiers of capitalism
[image] A Google Project Loon balloon which aims to provide Wi-Fi connections from the edges of space. Photograph: Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images (Retrieved fromhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/29/silicon-valley-exploits-space-evgeny-morozov#img-1 Silicon Valley exploits time and space to extend the frontiers of capitalism Evgeny Morozov Satellites, drones and balloons can make global connectivity a reality – but this space race is about profits not altruism…
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Digital Art: Beyond The Hype
[image] Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Schwarm (2015) http://www.ignant.de/2015/11/24/digital-art-beyond-the-hype/ November 24, 2015 by Charmaine Li If you think of the term ‘digital art’, you might conjure up images of twitchy GIFs or glitchy videos. You might think it’s a recent development, but in fact its practice has roots dating back to the 1960s. So – what is considered ‘digital art’?…
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the conjurer
[image] Hieronymus Bosch, The Conjurer – Date unknown. Oil on panel. Original dimensions: 53 x 65 cm. Retrieved from https://excursuses.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/hieronymus-bosch-a-primer/ He who lets himself be fooled by conjuring tricks loses his money and becomes the laughing stock of children.” – A Flemish proverb “The Conjurer, an extraordinary tale of a conjurer trying to persuade the spectator that he’s pulling…
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the new romanticism
self driving cars …. The Dream Life of Driverless Cars “If the conceptual premise of the Romantic Movement can somewhat hastily be described as the experience and documentation of extreme landscapes — as an art of remote mountain peaks, abyssal river valleys and vast tracts of uninhabited land — then ScanLAB is suggesting that a…
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