Archive for 'stories / dreams'
How to: Love
April 8, 2009 by ric, under artworks, film / photographic, inter-bodies / half-objects, stories / dreams, thoughts, videos.
Below is a re-appropriation of an intel commerical and music video using text from a wiki-how article entitled ‘how to love’.
Avolition follows here a similiar line of thought .in terms of emotional response and atmosphere. However, Avolition does not close on it self, leaving the machinic voice develop sort of platonic affair with it self. Lets not forget that Avolition is already conceived ‘visible’ platonic affair and not one which necessarily imposes its ‘platonicism’ on its spectators. Love in this clip however is fundamanetally technologically introvert, we only experience the theatrical suffering offered by the clear positioning of humans and machines (machines as narrator / humans as objects with desires that need administration) – the intangebility of the machine describing love whereas it will never experience it. The spectator in this sense is a passive one (Jacques Ranciere) who cannot enter into an ‘actual’ conversation about the definition and ethics that constitute love, or an empirical definition or knowledge production of such experience. This could be expanded and this is what I hope to have started with Avolition. Love is not intrinsicly human, instead it inhabits inside the relationships and social systems that we produce. “Under this light” (as in the stage set up when passing by Avolition at night) technology might have a place for co-producing the meaning and rules of love. But would this mean that it could also co-consume it as well?
And on another note, how can one make up rules about something as undefinable as love in the first place? It seems to always be an ongoing project.
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A 'no-idea' is a good idea!
January 20, 2009 by ric, under stories / dreams, thoughts.
Sensation of realization and satisfaction that comes with having an idea followed by a sensation of not remembering that idea at all or even being sure that you had any sort of idea in your mind it the first place. It would be interesting to explore this idea of the non-idea that we experience very often.
We can be really convinced that we had a really good idea but just forgot it, or is it that there was no idea in the first place, only that non-idea sensation? How can we explain this feeling? How can we explore it? How can we work with this idea which immediately contradicts itself once it is summuned ?
At the slightest approach the no-idea becomes a useless paradox, how could we reinsert it? Comodify it? Turn it into the main content of a story?
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Pool Dream
January 8, 2009 by ric, under stories / dreams, thoughts, water / pools.
My chest was tight, forcing me to breath upwards. I felt light headed getting gradually more and more sick. After feeling a small convulsion through my throat it came out, not normally through the mouth but this time it would hit the back of my eye balls. Shaking me into realizing that I am in front of many pools. From the biggest of them all to the smallest, so small that it would be impossible to put not even 1 full human organ in. Some had rounded edges, although most of them were square or rectangular and nested into bigger pools. There was no will to get into any of them, nor the urgency to even consider them as either ornamental or representations. Their existence had the most incoherent reasoning yet there they where. These nested pool super structures could not live isolated from me and you although I have seen them individually, here in the cold.
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Being out looking in. Being in swimming out.
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Random Questions
October 7, 2008 by ric, under artworks, stories / dreams, thoughts.
- What is an in-between? Where and how can we perceive them?
- Is the act of washing a ritualistic attempt to ‘physically’ enter the virtual?
- Can we transform the base function of the public swimming pool into that of a cultural venue, a network of pools and a malleable ideology?
- Why make Video live? through RSS feeds live recording, CCTV…and what restrictions can they have?
- What are the elements that consistute CCTV technically as well as socially? How would things be like if there was no CCTV?
- The machine feels itself = Withdrawing of human affect from the artwork?
Where to put sensors? - How to display instructions them being algorithmic (instructions for the computer as programme) or performative (instructions for the computer as performer)?
- What are the functions of narrative and travel in networks?
- Is there any need for shooting new footage today?
- What if an object recognition software is applied on the very machine that runs it?