2.12.11

Boards of Canda

Boards of Canda



Here's a little treat for all the excellent work I saw yesterday.

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

'Can you take it?'



Son of Kick: Playing the Villain
Director: Matt Devine of The Glue Society

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Worth seeing

Justice: Civilisation; video by Edouard Salier, 2011




Woodkid: Iron; video by Yoann Lemoine, 2011




posted by Agata

27.11.11

OneDotZero short films

Carrot vs Ninja by Cederic Nicolas-Troyan:



and 3D No glasses by Jonathan Post:





Posted by Agata

8.11.11

Kitteh Kitteh

Here's a couple of amusing videos by Tokyoplastic that Kitty City posted by Ollie reminded me of ;)







Agata

1.11.11

Experimental/Artists' Film at South London Gallery

Next Wednesday evening at South London Gallery, experimental film screening:
http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/guy-sherwin-selected-films-from-the-lux-archiveta

It does not relate directly to the sci-fi theme of the platform but may be worth seeing nonetheless...

Agata

30.10.11

CHRIS CUNNINGHAM

Chris Cunningham - 'New York is Killing Me' by Gill Scott 2010



posted by Jei

29.10.11

THE CHAPUISAT BROTHERS

Intra-Muros N#1



Lisa came up with the idea of playing with the German word doppleganger when trying to understand the segregation and isolation that the cultural scene in Vancouver inhabits. We attempted to relate our favorite local artists to likeminded international artists and the concept developed from there. We wanted to illustrate through the connection of attuned international artists that what is happening in Vancouver is seen as significant and relative to the global art scene. After realizing the sinister implications of the term ‘doppelganger’, we found the term bilocation to be a more appropriate term surrounding our idea.

Intra-Muros N#2

Bilocation



 Bilocation: Less ominous, slightly different in nature but similar to the notion of the ‘doppelganger’, it is the “ostensibly supernatural act of appearing or being in two or more locations simultaneously” (Wiki). We, as curators, play with the notion of doppelganger, realizing the negative connotations surrounding the folklore of the term and the inherent irony of us 1. attempting the impossible task of pairing artistic doubles, and 2. it is commonly considered unwise to communicate with a doppelganger, and to see one’s own is a bad omen. Our subversion or recontextualizing of these meanings is playful, inspiring the idea of a global network of idiosyncratic ‘doubles’. Instead of doppelganger or bilocation evoking inauspicious suppositions, we delve into seeking out its occurrence to expand a network of artists and establish, as said before, a more developed sense of global community.


The Chapuisat Brothers
http://www.chapuisat.com/x/



posted by Jei (for Lili in 2nd year)

28.10.11

21.10.11

Vertigo Effect (TV + camera)

Creating images just by moving your hand. Endless illusion.
P.s. Watch from Youtube.

Yayoi Kusama





Photo credit for Monika Sutkute




posted by Jei

20.6.11

DAY SEVEN: FUTURES PAST

From 'the unwanted blog' -
In early 1949, Mr. Ritchie published a newspaper article discussing the need for space stations. The article was an abridged version of one he’d originally written in 1946. Who was Mr. Ritchie? I honestly don’t know. But I do know that for several years during the war, Mr. Ritchie was a designer and draftsman at Wright Field (where also worked Alex Tremulis, a designer who came up with a concept for a two-stage rocket-boosted VTOHL interceptor during the war), and after the war had what appears to have been a heck of a career in aerospace. Ritchie’s space station (poorly reproduced in the 1949 newspaper article), at first glance, looks both conventional and oddly familiar: