The harmful seems harmless when in a controlled structure or environment. We sometimes take this safety for granted and neglect its potential devastation. Video clips show basic elements on our planet in both a controlled and uncontrolled form. Background audio is a speech by the first Indian Prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru where he explains […]
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Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art Review – James Matsis
The work that stood out to me the most was Hito Steyerl’s Factory of the Sun. I felt it was the most immersive experience due to its large screen and Tron-like environment, feeling like I’m inside a digital entity like a computer. Although irrelevant, I’m also a big fan of the Tron and Matrix movies and […]
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Fantasy Commutes Statement
Every day we take our commutes on public transportation. It’s something we barely think about due to its monotony. I try to show our means of city travel through the lens of a day dreamer, with the destinations being somewhere we fantasize about. Fantasy Commutes will go anywhere you want, with no fixed track, route […]
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Fantasy Commutes – James Matsis
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Pipolotti Rist – Pixel Forest Review by James Matsis
For Pixel Forest, I did try to submerse myself in the video installations and drown out the crowd noise. From what I can interpret about Pipolotti’s goals in this 3-floor exhibition is the relation of nature with the human body. A lot of scenes of bodies of water and plants with humans in their […]
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Facility of Decline – Response
The exhibition seemed very sterile, soft and desolate. The gym equipment was constructed to look very soft, when in reality they’re constructed to take punishment. What stood out to me was the depiction of football training equipment and apparatus in a softened, secluded state when in reality football is a tough, hard and social manly sport. I […]
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Response from Artifacts – James Matsis
“I don’t care about what image/objects essentially are or represent. I’m fascinated about what we/they do and what happens along the way, about the interactions amongst image/objects and image/situations.” Towards the end of this reading, this passage clarified Hito Steryl’s artistic message of showing the traces of the media’s history rather than the images of […]
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