Graham Harwood: The networked image -

Wed, 06/03/2009 14:00 - 18:30

Graham Harwood, will be guest of "Intervention #4" in Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, on June 3rd, 2009. Harwood is known for both his individual work Aluminium (Manifesta07 2008), Rehearsal-of-Memory (Pompidou Centre Paris 1996 - collection), Lungs (Centre for Media Arts in Karlsruhe – collection) and his collaborative work with Mongrel (1996-2007) a celebrated artists group specialising in digital media and his directorship of Mediashed a free-media lab in Southend-on-sea(2005).
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In 1944 Sergei Eisenstein wrote: "Walt Disney's work is the most omni-appealing I've ever come across. In terms of material, Disney's pictures are pure ecstasy  bearing all the traits of ecstasy (the immersion of self in nature and animals, etc.). Their comicality lies in the fact that the process of ecstasy is represented as an object: literalized, formalized." Eisenstein met Disney in 1930; he admired him deeply and was influenced by his work. In his theoretical project Method (19321948), which he initiated in Mexico, he devoted a chapter to Disney. In the manuscript of this unfinished book, Eisenstein examines modernity in its relation to archaic structures and analyzes artworks as reified imprints of pre-logical mentality, as collective dream images. The ecstatic state induced by art is an important starting point for his investigation and Disney becomes a central object of this analysis, as in his work the plasmatic qualities of form, color, and rhythm, are combined with animism and totemism. The lecture by Oksana Bulgakowa analyzes Eisenstein's vision of Disney as being the utopian promise of freedom within the relationship between humans and nature.

"Que viva Mexico!", is the film Eisenstein came to shoot in Mexico, and he would tragically be excluded from editing it. The film's hybrid images depict Mexican life as a simultaneity of past and present. Reminiscent of, and yet surpassing the modern 'primitivist' fascination with the 'archaic', Mexico presented for Eisenstein a tableau of dialectic imagery that allowed him to re-conceptualize the role of modern art and revolutionary cinema in traversing the modern dichotomies of subject and object, rational and irrational, inside and outside, individual and collective, and even death and life. Oksana Bulgakowa is Eisenstein's biographer and, together with Anselm Franke, co-curator of Sergei Eisenstein: The Mexican Drawings. The lecture has been recorded on April 3, 2009 in MuHKA_media, Antwerp. http://www.extracity.org

Any attempt to understand the rapid transformation of territories in the 21st century reveals shifting landscapes and moving boundaries, thus a continuous struggle for their redefinition through conflicts and exclusions. Different conditions of mobility and migration encouraged by the so-called 'globalised world' inscribe in material environments social and psychological borders.

<nettime> 200 hrs of Deleuze online- for free! - Patrice Riemens wrote on 200 hrs of Deleuze online- for free!:

"La voix de Gilles Deleuze en ligne"

http://www.univ-paris8.fr/deleuze

Offers the full registration of Gilles Deleuze's lectures on Spinoza,
painting, films, and what have you on MP3. With text transcripts as
well. In French of course. And it's all for free! (like in 'beer', or

Episteme ist "ein nicht-kommerzielles Magazin für eine Philosophie der Praxis", herausgegeben von Richard Schwarz und Michael Heister. Die aktuelle Ausgabe beschäftigt sich mit dem immer noch sagen umwobenen Spätwerk von Louis Althusser. "Sein in den Schriften zwischen 1982-1985 entwickelter aleatorischer Materialismus ist weltweit kaum und in Deutschland so gut wie überhaupt nicht zur Kenntnis genommen worden. Dazu veröffentlichen wir noch einen Text über den Althusser-Schüler Badiou mit einer aus unserer Sicht neuartigen, post-postmodernen Rekonstruktion totgeglaubter Begriffe wie Subjekt und Wahrheit."

It was my last day  at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street smiling all over the face: "I have great news" he screamed. "Firefox 3.1 wil support OGG Theora!"

In other words: This is most likely the breakthrough for open video on the web! OGG THEORA is the only open source video erncoding suite. It is available for general use after the bitstream format for Theora was frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1.

Imaginary Property, a new research project of the Design department of Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, initiated by Florian Schneider, aspires to explore new potentials for design practices across various registers. The project is set up as a realm of experimentation at the intersections of design-theory and image-production. It is a laboratory where emerging concepts and terminologies are set to a series of tests.

What challenges emerge from the paradoxes that research into ‘imaginary property’ has given rise to? How could these potentially generate new rules of production, bearing in mind that property relations are constantly exchanging meanings? Against this background: do we have to rethink and re-evaluate the notion of ‘design’ as such?

The research project Imaginary Property consists of three parts that are inextricably linked up with each other and are to be addressed simultaneously rather than consecutively.

During the last 15 years the contemporary art world has grown extensively. The term globalisation is often used to describe this process, especially when the explosion of mega events such as biennales and art fairs are discussed. But globalisation is also about competition between regions, nations and continents.

On a higher educational level, this is very well reflected in the so-called Bologna process: a political attempt to make Europe and its surroundings a more attractive milieu and competitive force, economically speaking.