Cimatics presents
A MASTERCLASS FOR LIVE AUDIOVISUAL ART
Cimatics, Brussels International Platform for Live A/V, presents a Masterclass Live Audiovisual Art, within the framework of the studio-program Experimental Media-art provided by the VAF (the Flemish Audiovisual Fund).
Because the biggest merit of live A/V is its cross-border and cross-disciplinary character the masterclass will challenge its participants to do just that: collaborate.
THIS BLOG WILL BE PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AS A BOOK

The goal of this blog is to generate an open-source effect: opening up the discussions from within the masterclass to the rest of the world. Let this be a call for everyone to participate and join or start a debate.
 
Eventually, this blog will be printed as a book. An additional DVD with the open-source versions (Creative Commons license) of the participants masterclass-projects will be available afterwards. So if you post something to this blog, you are co-authoring the book.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Quotes (Michael)

Pop(ular) Culture:
"Popular Culture works in the spaces in-between our controlled society - is by definition defensive, denies the control of social order - plays with it, but is always prepared for a guerilla action, for a play of tactical resistance, always aware for moments of weakness, to turn them to it`s own advantage." (John Fiske, "Reading the Popular", 1989)

Objects:
"Through objects every individual and group searches it`s or their place in a system" (Baudrillard, 1981)

Places:
"Memories tie us to that place... It`s personal, not interesting to anyone else, but after all that`s what give a place it`s character..." (A woman living in the Croix-Rousse quarter in Lyon, interview by Pierre Mayol)

"It is striking here that the places people live in are like the presences of diverse absences. What can be seen designates what is no longer there... Demonstratives indicate the invisible identities of the visible..." (Michel De Certeau, The Practice of Everday Life, 1984)

“To start seeing you have to eliminate certain things.” (Carsten Nicolai)

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