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Le Grand Content
Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.
Top 10 Albums of 2006
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Modern Institute Excellent Swimmer Expanding Records |
Posthuman Peoples Republic Seed Records |
Robert Henke Layering Buddha Attack 9 |
Point B Previous Version SCSI-AV |
Franz Falckenhaus My Cold War Benbecula |
Helios Eingya Type Records |
The Gentlemen Losers Self titled Mikrolux |
Mariel Ito My Cyborg Depths SCSI-AV |
Richard Fenwick
One of the experimental short film soundtracks Made with filmmaker Richard Fenwick Commissioned for AV festival, November 2003 Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne.
RND# (NE) was a new commission for the AV Festival by filmmaker and designer Richard Fenwick - four shorts made in and around Newcastle for his RND# series of experimental films.
RND# is an ongoing series of films that deal with the theme of technology versus humanity. Each film (in a proposed set of 100) is a direct response to the ways in which local culture and society deal with technology. Cathode composed and produced soundtracks for two of these films.
Seinfeld
Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf's "Architecture of Density" – photos which reward close inspection – from a show at the Robert Koch Gallery:
Caveh Zahedi
Autobiographical comedy about a recovering sex addict, about his obsession with prostitutes, and how that affected his relationships and his life altogether.
Gotham Awards: Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Kapitaal
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A 7 minute long "typo-animation" created by the Dutch artist-collective of Studio Smack commissioned by museum De Beyerd in Breda.
Pedestrian Levitation
The movement of the pedestrians is recorded with a camera from a high place like the roof of a building. A pattern of movement of the pedestrians is extracted by reworking this recording frame by frame with video animation software: it is as if pedestrians draw lines though the space.
From this pattern, some dominant directions can be found. These directions will not be exactly what the urbanist foresaw when designing the public space at the location, but be the real flow, the real use of the city by its inhabitants. See the video.
Audi Illusions
Framestore CFC Creates M.C. Escher "Illusions" for Audi. Click image to view youtube video.
Article June 2004
Ben Nicholson
Like the Cubists, Nicholson was interested in the ways in which paintings can represent space. In the 1930s, he made shallow reliefs in which areas of different depths define actual space. In the most radical of these, colour was reduced to just white or grey to achieve a sense of purity. Depth and plain colour make the play of light and shadow an intrinsic part of the work. This emphasis was related to new ideas about living and, especially, to modern architecture, in which natural light and formal simplicity were major concerns.