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Julius von Bismarck: Image Fulgurator, 2007/08
This video shows an Intervention at the Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. (former border of east and west Germany) The target of the manipulation was the famous “YOU ARE ENTERING THE AMERICAN SECTOR” – sign.
The manipulation created a link from the former East / West border to the US / Mexican border in order to reimagine the dramatic situation at worldwide borders today. The message was addressed to the tourists on location, that can travel easily over every border without risking their life.
People’s great trust in their photographic reproductions of reality was what motivated me to develop the *Image Fulgurator*. A camera can be used as a personal memory tool, since people do not doubt the veracity of their own photographs. Hence, photos can reproduce the reality of an individual environment or public space. At sacred or popular locations, or those having a political connotation, an intervention with the Fulgurator can be particularly effective. Especially objects with a special aura or great symbolic power are good targets for this kind of manipulation. In other words, with the Fulgurator it is possible to have a lasting effect on those kinds of individual moments and events that become accessible to the masses only because they are preserved photographically.
More info:
http://www.juliusvonbismarck.com/fulgurator/fertig.html
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Check out this link which shows a collection of works made with the technique of SPLIT-SCAN!
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Daniel Rozin is an artist, educator and developer, working in the area of interactive digital art. As an interactive artist Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. In many cases the viewer becomes the contents of the piece and in others the viewer is invited to take an active role in the creation of the piece. Even though computers are often used in Rozin’s work, they are seldom visible.
Daniel Rozin: Wooden Mirror – Motoristic Reflective Sculpture 1999
1999
830 square pieces of wood, 830 servo motors, control electronics, video camera, computer, wood frame.
Size – W 67″ x H 80″ x D 10″ (170cm , 203cm, 25cm).
Built in 1999, this is the first mechanical mirror I built. This piece explores the line between digital and physical, using a warm and natural material such as wood to portray the abstract notion of digital pixels.
Daniel Rozin: Weave Mirror – Motoristic Reflective Sculpture 2007
768 C shaped prints 768 motors, video camera, control electronics.
Size 57 inches H, 78 inches W, 8 Inches D
Weave Mirror assembles 768 motorized and laminated C-shaped prints along the surface of a picture plane that texturally mimics a homespun basket. A seemingly organic smoky portrait comes in focus to the sound made by the sculpture’s moving parts. Informed by traditions of both textile design and new media, the Weave Mirror paints a picture of viewers using a gradual rotation in gray scale value on each C-ring. A playful juxtaposition between the rustic and photographic, this sculpture is suspended from the ceiling. Its functional circuitry and wiring is visible behind the picture plane, exposing its craft.
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More info: http://www.smoothware.com/danny/
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One day a machine will blink into consciousness, and it will be human-kind’s crowing achievement. But it’s just wishful thinking to believe that artificial consciousness could let people alive today escape death by uploading, their minds. By Glenn Zorpette
Special Report on FUTURE of Technology & Consciousness, IEEE SPECTRUM MAGAZINE, 06.2008
SINGULARITY (Wikipedia): The technological singularity is a hypothesised point in the future variously characterized by the technological creation of self-improving intelligence, unprecedentedly rapid technological progress, or some combination of the two. [ More : http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html]
ONLINE ARTICLES of SPECTRUM IEEE : http://spectrum.ieee.org/singularity
SINGULARITY People [ Theories on Consciousness ] :
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Hi,
useful site for Modern/Contemporary Art History 
http://umintermediai501.blogspot.com/search/label/aesthetics
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