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PARAKINO – Michał Brzeziński – MODERN POST MORTEM
24 JANUARY 2009, AT 6 PM – Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia – Jaskolcza 1 – PL80-767 Gdansk
Although modernism has come to an end, modernist thought is still alive. The idea of changing the world and bringing new order is prevailing and subject to numerous transmutations. So is socialism, which keeps changing and seeking to put revolutionary ideas into practice. In a film, Brzeziński wish to juxtapose Soviet socialism with an intellectual and sophisticated French socialism, as well as, with Polish social reality. As a result, the film’s recipients will be able to transfer certain values and mental situations from one area to another. Images taken from the home archive of people belonging to post-punk culture were here put side by side with the pictures showing the dark side of living in a post-soviet reality and D. Vertov’s film Enthusiasm: Donbas’s Symphony. Moreover, the film The Society of the Spectacle was re-edited to fit G. Debord’s text. Apparently then, the work becomes a recycling of culture and memory enriched with abstract elements, closed-eye visions and the aesthetics of video images. Read the rest of this entry »
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The GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall, designed by Simon Giostra & Partners and Arup, uses thousands of solar capture cells attached to each of its glass panels to charge up during the day and then release light shows at night. It’s the largest colour LED display in the world and the first photovoltaic system integrated into a glass wall. The facade harvests solar energy by day & uses it to illuminate the screen after dark.
The wall located in Beijing near the site of the Olympic games is a combination of three textured panels in low-, medium-, and high-transparency glass, employed together to create a “continuous carpet” of flowing design that’s actually roughly 7 feet deep. The wall will showcase low-resolution LED imagery and it is set to open to the public in June. Read the rest of this entry »
Info-Aesthetics: Information and Form by Lev Manovich
April 22, 2008; 3 – 5 pm
Studio Ciborra, Fifth Floor, Tower One,
London School of Economics and Politics, Houghton Street
The unprecedented growth of information puts new pressures on contemporary societies. We need to invent new ways to interact with information, new ways to represent it, and new ways to make sense of it. How are artists, designers, and architects are responding to these challenges? Rather than trying to defend ourselves against “information glut,” can we approach this situation creatively as the opportunity to invent new forms appropriate for our information-rich world? More…
Archived talks from the series, here…
Lev Manovich is a Professor in the Visual Arts Department, University of California San Diego.
