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(Un)titled. A Conceptual Issue
JOSEPH MALLORD TURNER Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) - the Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, 1843.
“(...) one thing is denied even to the best contemporary artist: he can never manage to make a wooden horse mean as much to us as it did for its original creator. This path is closed off by an angel wielding a flaming sword” (italics are mine). I begin with this quote by Gombrich, to talk about a subject which for many might be linked to the elitism of contemporary artists when producing their work, but which has more to do with the meaning (and therefore the aesthetic experience) that is accessible to all viewers, and it was with regards to this that the German historian masterfully outlined the limits of the pretensions inherent to avant-garde art creation.
Read more...E1000: Interactive Cinema
Interactive cinema is undoubtedly a medium which still poses problems. We first began to explore this field in the 1990s, though it is only now, with technological advances, that things are really starting to move with regards to the possible ways of building bridges between films and viewers, and achieving a two-way communication between them.
Read more...Indifference and Vertigo. Autorretrato [Self Portrait], by Édouard Levé
Autorretrato [Self Portrait], by Édouard Levé
Madrid, 451 Editores
Two obsessions in French literature: the inventory and the list, the exhaustive description and fragmentary enumeration. Of course, both themes are deeply intermingled, so much so that they could be taken as just one. However, it is advisable to distinguish between the two, for they give rise to different forms. On the one hand, Proust’s project, the production of a continuum which enables the subject to unfold, literature as the uncovering of the Self, a panorama of the world. On the other hand, Mallarme and his broken book, Bouvard and Pécuchet taking everything into account, the whole world as an aggregate of discreet units, the catalogue which, when all is said and done, makes representation and subjectivity explode into pieces. Two very different versions of the book of the apocalyptic angel “in quo totum continetur”, written, according to Gómez Dávila, so that not even the smallest trace of fragrances is lost. Eschatology is the ironic phantom member of a literature that claims to be totally secular. Thus, Perèc’s work can be read as a winding road between the two versions: continuous and flexible time in La vida, instrucciones de uso [Life, Instructions for Use]; the quantum time of Me acuerdo [I Remember]; the attempts at reconciliation of the two temporarinesses in W. or Las cosas [The Things].
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