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BIO
Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer, writer and educator.
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
My YouTube debut
Hi
I just made a video remix using the open source data sets that Radiohead
( well, James Frost & Aaron Koblin actually) used to make their 'House of Cards' video ( You can read a bit about that here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/17/opensource.google?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
and here:
http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/07/17/aaron-koblins-radiohead-beautiful-processing-video/
)
Anyway the thing I made is posted on YouTube. If you have a moment please take a look and rate/comment if you feel so inclined. Also if you know any Radiohead afficionados please do forward it to them :)
The vid is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF9jQyqvN0I
thanks!
michael
I just made a video remix using the open source data sets that Radiohead
( well, James Frost & Aaron Koblin actually) used to make their 'House of Cards' video ( You can read a bit about that here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/17/opensource.google?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
and here:
http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/07/17/aaron-koblins-radiohead-beautiful-processing-video/
)
Anyway the thing I made is posted on YouTube. If you have a moment please take a look and rate/comment if you feel so inclined. Also if you know any Radiohead afficionados please do forward it to them :)
The vid is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF9jQyqvN0I
thanks!
michael
INTERNATIONAL
Hi Manik
I'm afraid I don't have any curatorial credentials to wave except for co-editorship of dvblog but it seems to me quite extraordinary that these people should ignore what is both a wholly original and substantial body of work.
I've followed it with fascination and great appreciation these last few years.
Shame on them!
michael
I'm afraid I don't have any curatorial credentials to wave except for co-editorship of dvblog but it seems to me quite extraordinary that these people should ignore what is both a wholly original and substantial body of work.
I've followed it with fascination and great appreciation these last few years.
Shame on them!
michael
epic net art
I was thinking about this a bit. Clearly the Epic in a precise technical sense is a product of very particular historical/economic/political circumstances.
It occurs originally around the point of the coming of literacy and often codifies the foundational myths of a tribe or people.
When we use it now, we always use it to some extent metaphorically in relation to this original notion.
(Actually that's been true since Virgil who adopted & adapted the form in a quite self conscious way)
And Dante follows Virgil .. and..and.. in the 19th Century we have an explosion of epic revival ( perhaps not by accident in a period when many nations really exist as modern unified bourgeois nations for the first time - for example Pan Tadeusz of Mickiewicz, although of course this *anticipates* the re-establishment of an independent Poland)
In the 20th century there's Brecht's epic theatre, a theatre that reaches beyond the personal or the tragic to attempt to show the unfolding and mechanics of history.
Many of the original formal qualities of Homeric poetry persist in Brecht - the broad sweep, the high purpose, even on occasions appearances by the Gods or ringers for the Gods. There’s often even an epic hero, or more usually anti-hero: Mother Courage, St Joan of the Stockyards, Schweik
( oh, Schweik! - *there’s* a twentieth century epic novel of course!)
So there's no epic template, it's contested & ever changing territory based on arguments of intent, family resemblance &c
That said I'd like to propose these two recent online video works by Robert Croma as epic. They're tiny, but there's something about their ambition, their opening out from the particular to the general, from a point in time and space to what it means to be human that strikes me as utterly in the spirit of epic -see in particular the last third of each, which rupture the time/space continuum.
‘Rules of Engagement’ reverses time and brings the dead back to life, but only after we are so brutally immersed in war we feel our own hands are bloody.
http://robertcroma.com/2008/06/21/rules-of-engagement/
‘Thibaut’ gifts us a time machine & by uniting, in one maddened & delicious rush, two quite particular moments in time somehow makes us aware of the whole temporal continuum, forgotten past to unimaginable future...
http://robertcroma.com/2008/02/11/thibaut-is-singing-on-oberstein-road/
It occurs originally around the point of the coming of literacy and often codifies the foundational myths of a tribe or people.
When we use it now, we always use it to some extent metaphorically in relation to this original notion.
(Actually that's been true since Virgil who adopted & adapted the form in a quite self conscious way)
And Dante follows Virgil .. and..and.. in the 19th Century we have an explosion of epic revival ( perhaps not by accident in a period when many nations really exist as modern unified bourgeois nations for the first time - for example Pan Tadeusz of Mickiewicz, although of course this *anticipates* the re-establishment of an independent Poland)
In the 20th century there's Brecht's epic theatre, a theatre that reaches beyond the personal or the tragic to attempt to show the unfolding and mechanics of history.
Many of the original formal qualities of Homeric poetry persist in Brecht - the broad sweep, the high purpose, even on occasions appearances by the Gods or ringers for the Gods. There’s often even an epic hero, or more usually anti-hero: Mother Courage, St Joan of the Stockyards, Schweik
( oh, Schweik! - *there’s* a twentieth century epic novel of course!)
So there's no epic template, it's contested & ever changing territory based on arguments of intent, family resemblance &c
That said I'd like to propose these two recent online video works by Robert Croma as epic. They're tiny, but there's something about their ambition, their opening out from the particular to the general, from a point in time and space to what it means to be human that strikes me as utterly in the spirit of epic -see in particular the last third of each, which rupture the time/space continuum.
‘Rules of Engagement’ reverses time and brings the dead back to life, but only after we are so brutally immersed in war we feel our own hands are bloody.
http://robertcroma.com/2008/06/21/rules-of-engagement/
‘Thibaut’ gifts us a time machine & by uniting, in one maddened & delicious rush, two quite particular moments in time somehow makes us aware of the whole temporal continuum, forgotten past to unimaginable future...
http://robertcroma.com/2008/02/11/thibaut-is-singing-on-oberstein-road/