I mourn therefore I am.
Jacques Derrida1
Tags: Creating new circuits in art means creating them in the brain too. - Gilles Deleuze1
Perception of ideas leads to new ideas. - Sol LeWitt2
The photographic camera is in many ways the ideal apparatus of Modernism. In considering the genealogy of photography, Geoffrey Batchen wonders why a discourse articulating the desire and possibility of ‘fixing the images they saw in their the camera obscuras’1 only emerged after the 1790s.
Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical… are brought into more intimate and effective connexion with each other.1
Ada Lovelace
‘Schizophrenia’ is a gallery installation that is visible to the visitor as a TV set that is not tuned to any particular channel so that it just shows white noise on the screen.
The installation is intended to reproduce the experience of schizophrenia as a boundary disorder, where it becomes unclear when or where words are coming from, and whether they are coming from the inside or the outside.
Psychosis comprises a screen, a video camera, a computer and a sound system. Using the camera, the computer views what is happening in the gallery and processes the video stream in real time in the manner of a ‘psychotic machine’. The resulting image is projected. The projection therefore displays a psychotic perception of what is taking place at that moment in the installation environment. The projection shows a video feed of the gallery space overlaid with military equipment that the computer has mistakenly ‘seen’ as a result of its psychosis.
Village and city are factories for the masks with which people identify themselves… This truism stops being one once it is recognised that nothing is hidden behind the masks… There is no-one who lays on a mask to identify himself, but rather, that these masks secrete those wearing them out of themselves.1
Vilém Flusser
- Touchable Holography
- Rabbis take to the skies to ward off swine flu
- SOUR - Hibi no neiro
- PowerPoint is actively hostile to thoughtful decision-making.
- Tomas Saraceno
- Claire Morgan
- The world doesn't need...
- Youtube video about demanding work for free
- Michael Jackson Shrine at O2 Centre (Millenium Dome)
- 4800-Year-Old Artificial Eyeball - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com