On May 29 1453, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire. On May 29 1954, the first annual meeting of the Bilderberg group took place. On May 29 2010, Dennis Hopper died. On May 29 2012, Tethervision will launch their latest series live at Primary in Nottingham and broadcast live online. At 9pm, Birmingham Art Zine (BAZ) will present The Blackmarket …
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Four years ago, the world was startled by the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, arguably the most impressive visual spectacle of modern times. But amidst the rockets fired to create the perfect weather, the digitally composited footstep fireworks and that ugly child with the perfect voice being hidden away in a broom cupboard, there emerged an element of deception …
Continue Reading“I made a number of these video tapes and for the most part I found the practise of making them extremely unsatisfactory, a lot of which had to do with the viewing conventions in museums, often times when your work was shown in museums if you were lucky enough to be invited to show, your work was shown in a …
According to the simulation thesis, the viewer’s faculty for distinguishing between reality and fiction is disabled by the medium. The primary reality is therefore blurred or replaced by a second, delusional one.
No project operates in a vacuum. All absolute philosophies like this are impossible to achieve; they treat the world undialectically, and disregard practical limiting factors…. But any future local media project… must start with some practical guidelines for its work. These aims must be development on an evolving, flexible basis, through experimentation and as external influences and restraints change.
A groups fascination for publicity can end up in doing things simply in order to get it, while liasing with the media- to get them to come and loo at you can take up so much time you can’t get anything else done… for who’s the person to go and do an interview – the best talker, the most photogenic, the person who did it last time?… Our will to live is cut down to a soundbite; our collective strength is reduced to a single figurehead who’s easily compromised or rubbished… “We have the image of the movement to think of, people won’t want to join a movement of extremists”
