By Hartmut Bitomsky Originally published in ‘Hartmut Bitomsky: Retrospective’, Goethe Institut München, 1997. As found in the Doc’s Kingdom 2010 catalogue. Hartmut Bitomsky will be our guest for the next DISSENT ! session, on March 28. Films are not alone. They live in an environment of wonderful moments. One, for example, is in Flaherty’s The … Continue reading The documentary world
By Gilles Deleuze Originally published as Preface to Serge Daney’s ‘Ciné journal 1981-1986’ (Cahiers du cinéma, 1986). Revised version from the one found on straub-huillet.net, taken from ‘Gilles Deleuze: Negotiations 1972-1990’ (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), translated by Martin Joughin. Your previous book, La Rampe (1983), brought together a number of articles written for … Continue reading Letter to Serge Daney: Optimism, Pessimism, and Travel
In his essay ‘MyBrain.net’, Geert Lovink pointed out a “neurological turn” in recent Net criticism, referring to a slew of authors who “cleverly exploit the Anglo-American obsession with anything related to the mind, brain and consciousness”. One of the most celebrated and respected of these authors is Nicholas Carr, whose books Does IT Matter (2004) … Continue reading The Shallows
NIGHT VISION An evening on… illuminating darkness Thursday 18 March 2010, 20:00. Vooruit, Gent. Program produced by Courtisane as part of the Courtisane Festival 2010 (Gent, 17 – 21 March 2010) The night is not a black mass that blinds our sight. It’s not a substance, but an event, pure depth that surrounds and swallows … Continue reading NIGHT VISION
One of the works that will be shown in the Courtisane 2010 exhibition – titled “Digest Sound’ – is Barry Hale’s ‘Blackout (The Antiphony Video Supplement)’ (1997), a video which was produced as part of a project by Disinformation (Joe Banks) and conceived as supplementary to images taken by photographer Julian Hills which appear on … Continue reading Sound Mirrors