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CS014 Tesla & Extra Coil

Nikola Tesla

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photography

The wireless transfer of electrical energy was the dream of physicist and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. After tireless experimentation he finally obtained his first patent for the wireless transmission of energy in 1900. It is recognised today...

Pinknoise

Junko

Mattin

In the article “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” (1948) the “father” of information theory Claude E. Shannon famously said that “every transmission comes with noise”. For Shannon it was the ideal to reduce the noise in order to achieve as effective a transmission of information as possible. Not so for...

The Cut-Ups

William S. Burroughs

Antony Balch

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film/video

Inspired by painter and writer Brion Gysin’s “cut-up technique” (inspired in turn by the Dadaists) William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch’s short film The Cut-Ups is an aggressively confusing and mesmerising audio-visual montage, originally entitled Guerilla Condition and filmed in Paris, Tangier and New York in the years 1961-1965. With a soundtrack...

capture

Jennifer Chan

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film/video

What is going on in this video? Why is the woman peeling off the screen of her computer? And why is she filming it with her pink mobile phone? Is she...

Copyright the artist and imai Duesseldorf, 2012

In Search of the Castle

Steina and Woody Vasulka

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film/video

Filming through a fish-eye camera lens and accompanying the image flow with distorted electronic sounds, video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka drive through industrial cityscapes, suburban areas and rural districts. In the beginning...

Come To Daddy

Chris Cunningham

Aphex Twin

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film/video

In Come To Daddy Chris Cunningham stages a miserable and surreal scene of run-down suburban tower blocks, in which an old woman walks her dog along a street strewn with litter. Camera and sound foster a feeling of suspense: the woman is not alone. In an adjacent carpark...