Listening to the Art on a Seabed



Conditions
•Water and Dreams
•Vilém Flusser's media philosophy as a daydreaming
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•“…For him technical media had been a pile, a treasure of possibilities (or perhaps better
potentialities), which permanently had to be explored, every day and every day again.”
•Z. Zielinski

Fluxes and stagnant waters
•“I live them synthetically in their original complexity, often according them my unreasoning
adherence.”
•G. Bachelard

Images that sound
•“This is not the music of the future but rather a critique of the present.”
•V. Flusser
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•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyfOcAAcoH8

Images that sound
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•“It will become pointless to try to distinguish between music and
•so-called visual arts because everyone will be a composer, will make images. The universe of
technical images can be seen as a universe of musical vision.” V. Flusser
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•„Technical sounding images“
•Vilém Flusser

Images that sound
•EVERY ICON
•John F. Simon jr., 1996
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•Given: A 32 X 32 Grid
•Allowed: Any element of the grid
•to be black or white
•Shown: Every Icon
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•http://numeral.com/appletsoftware/eicon.html
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Images that sound
•EVERY ICON
•John F. Simon jr., 1996
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Image sings its composition…

Into the universe of singing images
•The eye assigns them names,
•but only the hand truly knows them.
•G. Bachelard
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•“… not Euclidian space but dataspace that is fugitive, flecking, more akin to water or wind in its
ephemeral, flowing materiality, than to the granite permanency of traditional works of art.”
•R. Ascott

Surface play
of Chamber orchestra
•“The scenario, the fable, I propose here is this: people will sit in separate cells, playing with
their fingertips on keyboards, staring at tiny screens, receiving, changing, and sending images. …
People will be in contact with one another through their fingertips and so form a dialogical net, a
global superbrain, whose function will be to calculate and compute improbable situations into
pictures, to bring information, catastrophes about. […] In terms of function, then, it will be
meaningless to try to distinguish between natural and artificial intelligences (between primate
brains and secondary brains). The whole thing will function as a cybernetically controlled system
that cannot be divided into constituent elements: a black box.”
•V. Flusser

Immersion
& snorkeling
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•“… in the present context it refers to the experience of being inside the world of a synthetic
image. … By extension the term is used to describe the experience of the user of certain new media
technologies (particularly Virtual Reality, but also videogames …”
•M. Lister & col.

Materiality of media analyses
& Deep diving
•Into the universe of singing images …
•…to know the materiality of the dataspace
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Thank you for your attention


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