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Sable Island Poet -- Jill MacLean -- 44°N 60°W

"curve to your own mortality, see how
grasses grow through an empty hoof
and watch the migrant finch, its feathers
the blue of ocean, intensified
as a lens bends
sunlight to burning"

Julian Rosefeldt

A film still from "The Perfectionist."
Julian Rosefeldt, a German artist born in 1965 who lives in Berlin, makes "visually opulent, earnestly political films and videos. His work is high-minded, excessively middlebrow and seemingly bent on tweaking consciousness seductively and without strain," writes Roberta Smith.

Stimmhorn

Border crossers in the Helvetic landscape of sound

ZTOHOVEN

On the June 17th 2007 our group invaded media and television territory intruded and impeached its trueness as well as its credibility. Pointed out the possible confusion of media presented picture of our wolrd for the real one. Is everything that our media such as newspapers, television, internet offer on daily basis real truth or reality? It is this idea that our project is to introduce to general public, sort of reminder to everyone. We truly believe that independet territory of television governed by public law is that kind of media which can handle such thing even at the cost of self impeachement. Let it be this kind of appeal for our future and reminder to any media that the truth must be presented at any cost.

Chris Salter -- The Architecture of Listening

"MEDIA DETERMINE OUR SITUATION" writes the German theorist Friedrich Kittler, imagining a world where human perception and being are replaced by archives, code, systems, and networks. This is not the stuff of science fiction—to be unleashed on us in some distant future—but rather the present.

Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular - New York Times

Rin, 21, tapped out a novel on her cellphone that sold 400,000 copies in hardcover.

YouTube - Jan Svankmajer - Food - Breakfast - Stop Motion Animation

The Secret of the Golden Flower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rational thought benefits from an enhanced acuity of intuitive perception.

Media Art Net | Weibel, Peter: Video Texte

«Video Texte» (1975)



A sequence of video-specific poems. Purely linguistic poems which are constructed on the temporal, sculptural and technical possibilities of the video system. Evolutions of some methods of concrete poetry. The TV set becomes a processual text object.

Bill Seaman / Pasage Sets (1995)

Expanded Cinema as Expanded Reality

MoMA.org | The Collection | Gary Hill. Inasmuch As It Is Always Already Taking Place. 1990

MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2005 | OWLS AT NOON Prelude: The Hollow Men

"Chris Marker combs a vast beach of images to create an echo chamber in which the viewer can either remember or witness for the first time the reality of a civilization's self-slaughter."

M. Ward - Portland, Oregon - Indie / Blues / Folk - www.myspace.com/mward

Steal This Film II

Jimmy Owenns

raster - zbigniew libera

An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It

"This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed."
-- Albert Einstein

cryptogon.com : news - analysis - conspiracies

Marc Quinn at DHC

VIK MUNIZ

Robotic Fly

“If I could go back in time and choose again the field I would get into,” he says, “it might be a toss-up between engineering and biology.”

~ Professor Robert Wood, Harvard Microbiotics Lab