probleme eines abstrakt-figurativen expressionismus,* Nr. 89: der ideale Durchschnitt
What happens inside foggy spaces of freedom through invisibility is not so much of interest for faciality, but rather concepts of new ways of seeing and expressing and how a media competence can evolve beyond an interfaciality where persons are seen and act as screens and cameras. -> a critique of the fag face project
on faciality, zur gesichtsphilosophie, nr. 343
kinematographische fragen der gesichtsphilosophie. wo verläuft die leinwand (grenze zur außenwelt oder dazwischengeschobene maske). warum vernebeln.
on faciality, zur gesichtsphilosophie, nr. 306
Jacek Wesołowski - Mulhouse - Rue de Metz. 2006 (via Mulhouse - tramshots)
from playground to battleground
the situationist idea to let old city structures like the labyrinths of amsterdam grow into superstructures across the whole planet with psychogeographic zones according to the needs of the inhabitants (titled “new babylon”) was defeated by european cities being a collage of old and new. the old often being a simulacrum (e.g. the goethehaus in frankfurt which was reconstructed as if nazi germany and the bombing of it wouldn’t have existed), and zones of shopping, tourism, finance, industry, housing and regeneration instead of zones being open to consumption and transformation by the users.
le corbusier was recuperated in la défense, the concept of unitarian urbanism was defeated as a whole. the situationist attempt wasn’t the directorial cuts of haussmann, but rather cutting up the whole and to issue a socio-organic growth where the useful parts of present urban structures are approbiated. it wasn’t aimed at being a structuralist, the core idea was the creation of an all-embracing playground (with playing being a serious and open process instead of a superflous activity).
the situationists changed their strategy before the defeat. the core group gave up the plans of new babylon, its former member constant nieuwenhuys moved to producing artistic instead of architectonic models of it (judging from an art historian point of view, for himself this step most probably doesn’t exist). the last situationist after all splits, guy debord, whose own artistic mode had become the essay film as an attack on the images of culture industry, later moved on to creating a game to train the people of the importance of communication networks on battlegrounds.
(thoughts after receiving a postcard from mulhouse with the picture above)
Florence by Gerhard Richter, 2000, oil on photograph (via micebutnomen)
vs.
a glitch graphic by ∅livia F∅x, 2012
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on art history / zur kunstwissenschaft, nr. 322
Les cinq sens, illus. Sophie Grandval from Le Livre de la Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967) volume 8: Les sens. L’oeil. L’oreille. Cerveau et systeme nerveux. (via In the Realm of the Eyes Without a Face - 50 Watts)
warum eigentlich “interface”: im gesicht kreuzen sich ansehen und ausstrahlen.
on faciality, zur gesichtsphilosophie, nr. 273
probleme eines abstrakt-figurativen expressionismus* XV: Formulierung
on faciality, zur gesichtsphilosophie, nr. 207
juxtaposition by middle + off
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probleme eines abstrakt-figurativen expressionismus* IV: ernst und spiel
on faciality, zur gesichtsphilosophie, nr. 175
