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Invisible Cities: Alex Monteith -PS


It *is* a good piece though!
michael
--- Geert Dekkers <geert@nznl.com> wrote:

> NOt having read "Invisible Cities" leaves me myself
> vulnerable to
> critique of course -- but I do know some of
> Calvino's work. But may I
> dare to question why searching altavista for images
> based on 2000
> common nouns could give me results that are
> something like " the shape
> the book would have taken if the emperor had been
> more techno-savvy" ??
>
> I wanted to end this with a Gertrude Stein quote,
> which I thought was
> "a word has no meaning a sentence has" -- but then I
> realized I was
> unsure if I'd quoted correctly -- was it perhaps "a
> sentence has no
> meaning a paragraph has"?? I thus spent a good part
> of a half hour
> trying to find the quote -- and realized that while
> it is easy to find
> something "on the internet", it's vicously difficult
> to find something
> SPECIFIC.
>
> So -- back to the piece above -- it's obviously a
> useful script. But as
> a work of art -- it's just too easy.
>
> Cheers
> Geert
> (http://nznl.com)
>
>
>
> On 19-okt-04, at 4:22, Luke Duncalfe wrote:
>
> > Retrieving pages of images from the AltaVista
> search engine, Invisible
> > Cities by Alex Monteith sets in movement an
> infinite zootrope of
> > places, people and random information sourced from
> the distant
> > cityscapes of the Internet.
> >
> > Scripted by Sean Kerr, the work reveals images
> based on 2,000 nouns
> > from Italo Calvino's influential novel of the same
> name. In Calvino's
> > Invisible Cities the qualities of fictional
> cityscapes are relayed
> > back home, search engine-like, to the awaiting
> emperor Khan. In
> > Monteith's work, the landscapes of cities are
> replaced by the
> > landscapes of information media: the shape the
> book would have taken
> > if the emperor had been more techno-savvy.
> >
> > The work is a conceptual play between the
> retrieval of images, both
> > textual and graphic, and of language (AltaVista
> means "a view from
> > above"). It is every bit as sharp and quirky as is
> the novel script it
> > uses as its source; a response to the text and to
> the invisible
> > architecture of the Internet in equal measure.
> >
> > At Window: http://www.window.auckland.ac.nz/
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Re: Invisible Cities: Alex Monteith


Hmmm..yes..this is perhaps a *slightly*.. inflated
claim...
<It is every bit as sharp and quirky as is
the novel script it
uses as its source; >
& what is a *novel script*?
--- Geert Dekkers <geert@nznl.com> wrote:

> NOt having read "Invisible Cities" leaves me myself
> vulnerable to
> critique of course -- but I do know some of
> Calvino's work. But may I
> dare to question why searching altavista for images
> based on 2000
> common nouns could give me results that are
> something like " the shape
> the book would have taken if the emperor had been
> more techno-savvy" ??
>
> I wanted to end this with a Gertrude Stein quote,
> which I thought was
> "a word has no meaning a sentence has" -- but then I
> realized I was
> unsure if I'd quoted correctly -- was it perhaps "a
> sentence has no
> meaning a paragraph has"?? I thus spent a good part
> of a half hour
> trying to find the quote -- and realized that while
> it is easy to find
> something "on the internet", it's vicously difficult
> to find something
> SPECIFIC.
>
> So -- back to the piece above -- it's obviously a
> useful script. But as
> a work of art -- it's just too easy.
>
> Cheers
> Geert
> (http://nznl.com)
>
>
>
> On 19-okt-04, at 4:22, Luke Duncalfe wrote:
>
> > Retrieving pages of images from the AltaVista
> search engine, Invisible
> > Cities by Alex Monteith sets in movement an
> infinite zootrope of
> > places, people and random information sourced from
> the distant
> > cityscapes of the Internet.
> >
> > Scripted by Sean Kerr, the work reveals images
> based on 2,000 nouns
> > from Italo Calvino's influential novel of the same
> name. In Calvino's
> > Invisible Cities the qualities of fictional
> cityscapes are relayed
> > back home, search engine-like, to the awaiting
> emperor Khan. In
> > Monteith's work, the landscapes of cities are
> replaced by the
> > landscapes of information media: the shape the
> book would have taken
> > if the emperor had been more techno-savvy.
> >
> > The work is a conceptual play between the
> retrieval of images, both
> > textual and graphic, and of language (AltaVista
> means "a view from
> > above"). It is every bit as sharp and quirky as is
> the novel script it
> > uses as its source; a response to the text and to
> the invisible
> > architecture of the Internet in equal measure.
> >
> > At Window: http://www.window.auckland.ac.nz/
> > +
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is
> open to non-members
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms
> set out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at
> http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> >
>
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is
> open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set
> out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at
> http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>

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Wolanczyk and Szpakowski present: Il Sogno Della Principessa


Wolanczyk and Szpakowski present:

'Il Sogno Della Principessa

DISCUSSION

new work: 'proof - a short opera'


'proof - a short opera'

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/proof/index.html

shockwave; sound on (!)

best
michael

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DISCUSSION

A wonderful piece by Alan Sondheim: Fwd: Re: [webartery] tinnitus


My commentary in a post to webartery at top - address
of Alan's piece at the very bottom - check it out
-quite long download but worth it - it's wonderful!
michael

--- Michael Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com> wrote:

> To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
> From: Michael Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 02:34:04 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [webartery] tinnitus
>
>
> What touches me deeply about this is its nature as a
> portrait.
> Form: the two people; the bipartite structure of the
> movie, a 'task' or surface 'topic'( cf *self
> portrait
> as a...*)
> Content: the still, focussed quality of Alan and the
> amused & mobile presence of Eleanor Thornton (and of
> course if the two adjectives each were enough then
> one
> wouldn't need the film)
> Also - a piece of humour and great warmth.
> When I see something like this then I feel more than
> ever there's a continuity in the visual arts from
> cave
> painting to today.
> For me, without hype, this has the same quality as
> the
> Rembrandt self portraits or the portraits of
> Giacometti - and to those who'd say -'it's just a
> film' then it seems to me that within *this film*
> one
> can sense all the films that Alan has made which are
> *not* this one -I don't believe this could be made
> by
> anyone just starting out.
> A rich and wonderful work!
>
> michael
>
> --- Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > tinnitus
> >
> > Eleanor Thornton and Alan Sondheim both have
> > tinnitus, continuous ringing
> > in the ears.
> >
> > In this video, a highly sensitive microphone is
> > placed between the two of
> > them, recording the sound of mixed tinnitus.
> >
> > Please turn your treble up full and your bass down
> > to zero in order to
> > hear this. For those with graphic equalizers, try
> > full above 4k and 0
> > otherwise. Thank you.

http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim/tinitusss.mov

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