‘Forever’, the analogue feedback music video for Love Of Diagrams screens in the Rojo Nova Audiovisual Sessions, happening July 1st – August 15th 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.rojo-nova.com If you cant make it to the museum in Brazil, you can watch the video here: http://www.messandnoise.com/tv/3916440
Dafna Maimon’s take on arts industry workers, recent art school graduates, art guards and the dreams and fears of the people at the frontline of cultural institutions. The protagonists use black parcan theatre lights on mic stands to frame their monologues. A white light too strong. Lights. Camera. Action.The repetitious scenes were almost nausea inducing [...]
Google screenshot painting by Tyler Wilde. A powerful article by Dutch-Australian media theorist Geert Lovink on google, society of the spectacle/query, net criticism and the XXXXXX ‘The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives’ http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-09-05-lovink-en.html An excerpt Ever since the rise of search engines in the 1990s we have been living in [...]
Mock up on Mu dir. Craig Baldwin (USA, 2009, 110 min) Première: 3 December, 22:00 hrs Smart Project Space A new movie by Craig Baldwin, straight out of the Other Cinema compound in San Francisco. The latest in his canon that includes Tribulation 99, Sonic Outlaws and Spectres of the Spectrum, all intoxicating feature-length films [...]
a day-long symposium on the changing nature of cultural development, ‘amateurism’ vs. ‘professionalism’, the shifting sands of creative consumption and critical construction… gatekeepers now left with no-one at the gates… playlist curatorial selections and niche/long tail sales techniques… for a long time it has been sensed that artists are the new curators, filters that set [...]
Being locked out of my Sandberg studio while holiday renovations take place creates time for exploring the Amsterdam forests by bike, watching EasyJet 737′s full of anticipatory stoners land from my balcony and reading books. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Australian Screen Classics series. Currency Press, Sydney. Philip Brophy Brophy’s reading of [...]