Impakt Festival 2009 14 – 18 October 2009 Utrecht, Netherlands It is now 100 years since Filippo Marinetti published his controversial “Futurist Manifesto”, in which he described the enthusiasm brought about by the arrival of modern industrial rhythms, driven by a total belief in speed and progress. In his recent “upgrade” of the Manifest, media … Continue reading IMPAKT FESTIVAL // Accelerated Living Preview
Here’s a new video by Oliver Laric, which deals with a lot of the issues I have been writing about on this blog. This “pithy essay on the irrelevance of the notion of authenticity and the ‘animistic’ attitude that has taken shape in response to the boundless online population of modified images” was recently shown … Continue reading Versions
“If creativity is a field, copyright is the fence” – John Oswald What came before: Part 1 Here are some more historical and contemporary examples of explicit musical appropriation, as a sort of illustration or extension of a little article I wrote for RUIS , about music and creativity in the era of intellectual property. … Continue reading If you can Hear it, you can Have it (2)
THE ORDER OF THINGS 12, 19, 26 september 2008, Muhka_Media, Antwerp Film program in the context of the exhibition with the same title at MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (11th September 2008 > 4th January 2009). Curated by Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz. From September 11th until January 4th MuHKA presents The Order … Continue reading The Order of Things / Program
“Interruption is one of the fundamental methodes of all formgiving. It reaches far beyond the domain of art. it is, to mention just one of its aspects, the origin of the quotation. Quoting a text implies interrupting its context”. — Walter Benjamin When we were asked to compose some film programs on the recycling and … Continue reading Figures of Interruption (1)