Rückseite der Installation; mehrere Elementen angeschlossen an die „Maschine“ der Selbstreferenz: HDMI-Analog Konvertern, Android Media Players, DC 5V Stromversorgungsgeräte
In seinem Text „Videowelt und fraktales Subjekt,“ beschreibt Baudrillard ein Subjekt der digitalen Ära, das danach trachtet, „sich selber in seinen Bruchstücken anzugleichen“ und anstatt nach seinem vollkommenen Idealbild, sehnt es sich nach der „Formel einer endlosen genetischen Reproduktion“ (Baudrillard 1989). Technologische Reduplikationen und Erscheinungsweisen des Körpers formen das Konzept des neuen Selbst. „Es geht heute nicht einmal mehr darum, einen Körper zu haben, sondern an seinen Körper angeschlossen (connected) zu sein.“
"Videowelt und fraktale Entspannung" ist als eine Mehrkanal-Installation, die sich auf das Konzept des fraktalen Körpers nach Baudrillard und der Interpassivität nach Pfaller stützt. Sieben Bildschirme zeigen die Verlängerung des menschlichen Körpers, während ein beauftragter Bot ein ungezwungenes Entspannungsprogramm durchführt. Basierend auf der progressiven Muskelentspannung nach Edmund Jacobson ermöglicht die Installation den Betrachter:innen, an der angeleiteten Choreografie teilzuhaben und so die Verbundenheit des Selbst mit der Technik zu erfahren. So ist sie ironisch als eine interpassive ‘Oase der Entspannung‘ konzipiert.
In his text "Video World and Fractal Subject," Baudrillard describes a subject of the digital era that strives to "align itself with its own fragments." Rather than aspiring to its perfect ideal image, it yearns for the "formula of an endless genetic reproduction" (Baudrillard 1989). Technological reduplications and manifestations of the body shape the concept of the new self. "Today, it is no longer even about having a body, but about being connected to one's body."
"Video World and Fractal Relaxation" is a multi-channel installation that draws on Baudrillard's concept of the fractal body and Pfaller's theory of interpassivity. Seven screens depict the extension of the human body while a programmed bot conducts a casual relaxation routine. Based on Edmund Jacobson's progressive muscle relaxation, the installation allows viewers to participate in the guided choreography, offering them an experience of the self's connection with technology. It is ironically designed as an interpassive "oasis of relaxation."
In dieser Arbeit setze ich mich mit unterschiedlichen Geschichtsbegriffen auseinander. Dafür dienen mir die Diskussionen um die deutsche Erinnerungskultur als Einstiegspunkt. Das Ziel ist es allerdings nicht, unmittelbar in die polarisierte Debatte einzugreifen. Stattdessen richtet sich der Fokus auf das ideologische Fundament, das verschiedenen Formen, mit der eigenen Geschichte umzugehen, zugrunde liegt. Den theoretischen roten Faden bildet das Werk "After Evil" des Philosophen Robert Meister. Darin kritisiert er die Haltung, die Vergangenheit zwar als schlimm zu verurteilen, aber gleichzeitig auch als abgetrennt von der Gegenwart zu betrachten. Herausgearbeitet werden die Argumente unter anderem anhand von Filmen von Alexander Kluge und Harun Farocki
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In this work, I examine different concepts of history. The discussions surrounding the German culture of remembrance serve as my starting point. However, the aim is not to intervene directly in the polarized debate. Instead, the focus is on the ideological foundations that underlie different ways of dealing with one's own history. The work “After Evil” by philosopher Robert Meister forms the theoretical leitmotif. In it, he criticizes the position of condemning the past as evil, but treating it at the same as something that is separated from the present. The arguments are elaborated on the basis of films by Alexander Kluge and Harun Farocki, among others.
This paper provides a critical examination of ecological planning based on the continuities that it displays across seemingly disparate political projects and historical periods. In order to do so, it draws on the small rural valley of La Bizkaia in Navarre, Spain. It produces an environmental history of the valley through a detailed study of its hydro-forestry resources, periodising such history according to a materialist reading of its ‘metabolic regimes’. That is to say, through the particular configurations between the natural and social orders that dictate life in La Bizkaia.
Initially, the study introduces the valley’s natural characteristics and its property structure, laying the foundations upon which the rest of this paper sits. Subsequently, it undertakes a detailed investigation of Francoist interventions in the 1940s-60s; a massive monoculture of pine trees was planted by the Francoist Forestry Council, which radically undermined La Bizkaia’s natural systems and depopulated it. This paper thus analyses the planning logic behind this natural intervention which, borrowing a term from one of its draftsmen, is named ‘total planning’.
The thesis then explores contemporary management of the valley by the Government of Navarre, which has maintained ownership until this day, aligning its plans with the international protocols and standards characteristic of green capitalism. By looking at projects undertaken in the valley for nature conservation and climate change adaptation, which receive funding from the European Union, this research reveals the continuities between Francoist policies and green capitalism, and how both operate under the logic of Total Planning. Under this planning logic, they both fail to accommodate the unpredictability of political conflict and natural systems.
Planning thus serves as a lens to explore the political and epistemological dimensions of ecological thought, placing a materialist reading of a small case study into the broader context of contemporary ecological intervention.
„Die Ähnlichkeiten von Geweben, Mustervorlagen und heutigen Rasterbildern sind eklatant. In einer Genese der technischen Bilder kann das Gewebe als Exemplarfall und Vorreiter aller technisch-elektronischer Bilder gelten.”
„Die ersten Bilder, die von ihrem Bildkörper abgelöst wurden, bestanden aus einem Stapel gelochter Karten für die Verwendung im Jacquardwebstuhl. Der Bildcode ist hier noch begreifbar, das Bild, wenn es aus dem Stapel dieser Karten gewoben wird, ein textil-taktiles Produkt. Patricia Wallers Needle-Works zeigen die Leerstelle heutiger Bildmaschinen auf, wo Bilder auf Monitoren erscheinen, um im nächsten Moment schon wieder durch den nächsten (Netzhaut-) Eindruck ausgetauscht zu werden.”
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“The similarities between fabrics, patterns and today's raster images are striking. In the genesis of technical images, the fabric can be regarded as an exemplary case and forerunner of all technical-electronic images.”
“The first images that were detached from their image body consisted of a stack of perforated cards for use in the Jacquard loom. The image code is still comprehensible here, the image, when woven from the pile of these cards, is a textile-tactile product. Patricia Waller's needle works show the blank space of today's image machines, where images appear on monitors only to be replaced by the next (retinal) impression in the very next moment.”
The talk and live music-led meditation session draws on sound design, psychology, neuroscience, folklore and diasporic spirituality. Studies of Air and Smoke is both an art performance and a meta-educational intervention; it is neither a concert nor a lecture. Thiago Leiros-Costa explores the dualism between being an artist and a scientist, performing both roles in the same evening and exploring their connections. The first part of the session assesses the nature of attention and awareness, and how the brain and our expectations are vital in constructing our experience of the world around us. Participants are invited to approach the second part, a musical performance, as a meditation session. Prompts and triggers given during the talk will be explored in the course of the performance. The music will range from folk to free improvisation and sound design.
The talk and live music-led meditation session draws on sound design, psychology, neuroscience, folklore and diasporic spirituality. Studies of Air and Smoke is both an art performance and a meta-educational intervention; it is neither a concert nor a lecture. Thiago Leiros-Costa explores the dualism between being an artist and a scientist, performing both roles in the same evening and exploring their connections. The first part of the session assesses the nature of attention and awareness, and how the brain and our expectations are vital in constructing our experience of the world around us. Participants are invited to approach the second part, a musical performance, as a meditation session. Prompts and triggers given during the talk will be explored in the course of the performance. The music will range from folk to free improvisation and sound design.
The talk and live music-led meditation session draws on sound design, psychology, neuroscience, folklore and diasporic spirituality. Studies of Air and Smoke is both an art performance and a meta-educational intervention; it is neither a concert nor a lecture. Thiago Leiros-Costa explores the dualism between being an artist and a scientist, performing both roles in the same evening and exploring their connections. The first part of the session assesses the nature of attention and awareness, and how the brain and our expectations are vital in constructing our experience of the world around us. Participants are invited to approach the second part, a musical performance, as a meditation session. Prompts and triggers given during the talk will be explored in the course of the performance. The music will range from folk to free improvisation and sound design.
The talk and live music-led meditation session draws on sound design, psychology, neuroscience, folklore and diasporic spirituality. Studies of Air and Smoke is both an art performance and a meta-educational intervention; it is neither a concert nor a lecture. Thiago Leiros-Costa explores the dualism between being an artist and a scientist, performing both roles in the same evening and exploring their connections. The first part of the session assesses the nature of attention and awareness, and how the brain and our expectations are vital in constructing our experience of the world around us. Participants are invited to approach the second part, a musical performance, as a meditation session. Prompts and triggers given during the talk will be explored in the course of the performance. The music will range from folk to free improvisation and sound design.
The talk and live music-led meditation session draws on sound design, psychology, neuroscience, folklore and diasporic spirituality. Studies of Air and Smoke is both an art performance and a meta-educational intervention; it is neither a concert nor a lecture. Thiago Leiros-Costa explores the dualism between being an artist and a scientist, performing both roles in the same evening and exploring their connections. The first part of the session assesses the nature of attention and awareness, and how the brain and our expectations are vital in constructing our experience of the world around us. Participants are invited to approach the second part, a musical performance, as a meditation session. Prompts and triggers given during the talk will be explored in the course of the performance. The music will range from folk to free improvisation and sound design.
The talk and live music-led meditation session draws on sound design, psychology, neuroscience, folklore and diasporic spirituality. Studies of Air and Smoke is both an art performance and a meta-educational intervention; it is neither a concert nor a lecture. Thiago Leiros-Costa explores the dualism between being an artist and a scientist, performing both roles in the same evening and exploring their connections. The first part of the session assesses the nature of attention and awareness, and how the brain and our expectations are vital in constructing our experience of the world around us. Participants are invited to approach the second part, a musical performance, as a meditation session. Prompts and triggers given during the talk will be explored in the course of the performance. The music will range from folk to free improvisation and sound design.
The talk and live music-led meditation session draws on sound design, psychology, neuroscience, folklore and diasporic spirituality. Studies of Air and Smoke is both an art performance and a meta-educational intervention; it is neither a concert nor a lecture. Thiago Leiros-Costa explores the dualism between being an artist and a scientist, performing both roles in the same evening and exploring their connections. The first part of the session assesses the nature of attention and awareness, and how the brain and our expectations are vital in constructing our experience of the world around us. Participants are invited to approach the second part, a musical performance, as a meditation session. Prompts and triggers given during the talk will be explored in the course of the performance. The music will range from folk to free improvisation and sound design.