With the web 2.0 began the massive analysis of personal data by tracing the behaviors and movements of users in social networks with the aim to identify common structures.
Artists about their work: It’s all about singing. Independence as the aim of “Singing revolution” has brought us capitalism with post-colonialism as a paradoxical consequence of political freedom.
This rhythmic process, accompanied by a musical accelerando and crescendo, races over the landscape at an increasingly fast pace, covering it with increasingly dense abstract patterns. This is beautiful to watch and, in light of the title, also sad.
The subject of the film is the distribution of workers‘ lodgings. The right of domicile given to Safer Korlatovic, explosives expert in a salt mine, is a sufficient motive to make out of an everyday moment a poetic document. Short but subtile human pleasures are recorded, even in those moments which the main figures are not concious of.
“In her brilliant video Art Herstory, [Freed] has restaged art history, putting herself in the model’s role in numerous paintings.... Time dissolves under her humorous assault—one moment in the painting, then out of the canvas and into that period, then back in the studio." — Jonathan Price, Video Art: a Medium Discovering Itself, Art News 76 (January 1977)
In his new video work, Malraux’s Shoes, Dennis Adams masquerades as André Malraux (1901–1976), the French writer, adventurer, Resistance fighter, cultural provocateur, art theorist, orator, statesman, and passionate archivist of the world history of art.
Moving through the city streets with a video scanner reveals a hidden layer of personal fragments and stories which are broadcast by the private owners of surveillance cameras. The accumulation of these autonomous yet synchronous acts contributes to an invisible ad-hoc network of media permeating the socially codified spaces of our urban environments: the café, the apartment building, the store, the parking lot, and the street. Life: a user's manual is a shared experience in visualizing the invisible.
The black and white line drawing by Ignacio Uriate seems to form a highly complex labyrinth, but the tricky geometric pattern actually follows very basic, predetermined rules and evolves from a single circular line made by coloring the cells of an Excel sheet black rather than typing in letters and numbers.