‘in the fields we are concerned with, knowledge comes only in lightning flashs. The text is the long roll of thunder that follows.’
benjamin ‘the arcades project’
‘he who has science and art has religion. Who does not have either should have religion’
Goethe
‘the moon in me looks up at the moon
the moon that looks,
looks back at herself’
Kanjiro Kawai
Categories: art · quote · science · technology
the night sky punctuated on the horizons by towerblock buildings
slowly flickering lights on and off,
off and on
and the vertebrae remains alight
the spiril staircase
the liftshaft
the backbone of the building
the notocord around which the muscular structure colalesces
the ducting from which nervious powercables inervate the intersties of peoples casement walls
Categories: Uncategorized
Categories: Australia · Downtown Art Space · Frames and Sequences · Mercury Cinema · SA · art · moving image · sala · screened · video
Obselete phone aesthetics- a short story in draft.
Their love died with the analogue network. With the closing of the
network just post 2000, a lot changed.
Telecom had become telstra in the meantime, the old was phased out.
But what was lost in the transition?
Edna had just got an analogue telephone early 1990s, it was clunky,
but living so far from civilization, any communication was a godsend.
So she started dialling random numbers, money was good, her royalties
from the mine on the farm meant she hadn’t needed to think about how
much she had to spend for so long,
She loved the old radio, and since her husband had died in a tractor
accident, there hadn’t been much impetus to farm.
It was a wrong number but that was just the beginning.
She accidentally called a fisherman on a trawler in the gulf of
carpentaria, new to the technology, homesick and sea bound. They
talked a lot that night.
There was a silky quality to that analogue mobile, nokia circa 1988
It was more than that though, the mobile network stretched across the
country connecting people who had never had phones before.
Replaced by an inferior digital network, CDMA, whose reach barely
worked, and her, out on a remote farm, and him on some prawn trawler,
in the gulf of carpentaria, the connection was lost.
Distance and quality of sound!
Categories: technoromantic
Although on the peripheral of my knowledge, having seen a few postcards in Finland, i had not experienced Moomins till now. Created by Toove Jannsen.
The Tales From Moomin Valley(1984)(seen at the Northern Lights Film Festival) is a strange puppet show, and not just for children. There is a sense of abruptness, of it being so. E.g. it is time for snuffkin to go, and in 30seconds he has packed up his tent and leaves Moomintroll alone. There is the fear, the lonelines of being alive. It is similar in some respects to Michael Leunig(the Australian cartoonist) characters, and at odds with David Shrigley.
Well,I qualify that, they are all investigating through their own voices, death and life and what they mean.
I like these three cartoonists, for their conplimentary and contrasting takes on existance. I have had a long attraction to Leunigs cartoons, and only just discovered Shrigley and Jannsen sice arriving in Newcastle.
Three recommended moving image pieces that are based on the cartoonists work.
Categories: Cartoons/Art · art
