SHUT UP - Savages

In times of facebook omnipresence, a manifesto:

SILENCE YOURSELF

THE WOLRD USED TO BE SILENT
NOW IT HAS TOO MANY VOICES
AND THE NOISE IS A CONSTANT DISTRACTION
THEY MULTIPLY, INTENSIFY
THEY WILL DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION TO WHAT’S CONVENIENT
AND FORGET TO TELL YOU ABOUT YOURSELF
WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF MANY STIMULATIONS
IF YOU ARE FOCUSED YOU ARE HARDER TO REACH
IF YOU ARE DISTRACTED YOU ARE AVAILABLE
YOU ARE DISTRACTED
YOU ARE AVAILABLE
YOU WANT FLATTERY
ALWAYS LOOKING TO WHERE IT’S AT
YOU WANT TO TAKE PART IN EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO BE A PART OF YOU
YOUR HEAD IS SPINNING FAST AT THE END OF YOUR SPINE UNTIL YOU HAVE NO FACE AT ALL
AND YET
IF THE WORLD WOULD SHUT UP
EVEN FOR A WHILE
PERHAPS
WE WOULD START HEARING THE DISTANT RHYTHM OF AN ANGRY YOUNG TUNE – AND RECOMPOSE OURSELVES
PERHAPS
HAVING DECONSTRUCTED EVERYTHING
WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT PUTTING EVERYTHING BACK TOGETHER
SILENCE YOURSELF

The Ruins of Detroit by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

"Detroit, industrial capital of the XXth Century, played a fundamental role shaping the modern world. The logic that created the city also destroyed it. Nowadays, unlike anywhere else, the city’s ruins are not isolated details in the urban environment. They have become a natural component of the landscape. Detroit presents all archetypal buildings of an American city in a state of mummification. Its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great Empire."

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre official website.

Drenched Wind

Drenched Wind from Luis Furtado on Vimeo.

A video by Luis Furtado
Music: Stone in Focus by Aphex Twin

KARINA BUHR - Nassiria e Najaf

Akio Takamori

Storms imagined by Sophia Szilagyi

“Sophia Szilagyi is a printmaker who uses digital printmaking to create scenes of re-interpreted memory and experience. In her multi-layered compositions, Sophia explores the relationship between fiction and non-fiction, challenging our perceptions of reality and the effects of physical sensation and emotional response on memory. Sophia’s artistic process begins with an impression of a certain painting, personal photograph or experience. Images from a variety of sources are combined and overlapped so that the general interpretation of her work is a patchwork of real and imagined experiences. Sophia achieves this seamless layering by using digital technology, giving her the freedom to manipulate the imagery to create the desired mood and expression. The completed works are printed on archival rag paper as this highly absorbent surface enhances the softness and dreamlike quality of her imagery. In this current exhibition, Sophia draws her inspiration from the sea and coast, exploring the dualities of intersections between light and dark, earth and ocean. Through her prints, Sophia seeks to capture a sense of wonder, fear, beauty and, sometimes, danger that exists in both nature and the imagination.

Sophia Szilagyi graduated with First Class Honours from the School of Art and Culture at RMIT in 2000. Since graduating, Sophia has held a number of solo shows as well as participating in many group exhibitions across Australia. Her work has been selected in numerous print awards including the Fremantle Print Prize (2007) and the Banyule Award for Works on Paper (2011, 2009 and 2007). In 2005, Sophia was commissioned to complete a work for the Print Council of Australia and her work is represented in collections including the Burnie Regional Art Museum, La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Queensland University of Technology and State Library of Victoria.”

Press release from Beaver Galleries

via Art Blart.

More on Beaver Galleries website.

What a splendid idea! A record made of ice.

I swear, I saw them moving! ;-)

Impressive work by Ron Muek.



Muek's sculptures slideshow.

Cliff Jumper, by Moto Waganari

For more of his work: Moto Waganari's official website.

Nine variations on a dance theme, by Hilary Harris

Performed by Bettie de Jong.

Sonic water, by Sven Meyer and Kim Porksen

SONIC WATER from elfenmaschine on Vimeo.

SONIC WATER
laboratory for water sound images
Sven Meyer & Kim Pörksen

Sonic Water / cymatics laboratory / vernissage documentation / CREATE YOUR OWN WORLD
Olympus OMD Photography Playground 25. April - 24 Mai 2013 / Opernwerkstätten Berlin

www.sonicwater.org

MUSIC by Kymat - Wet Sound Enlightenment / http://www.kymat.de
studies of visible sound and vibrations - drop@sonicwater.org
www.greatpieceofcake.com & www.elfenmaschine.de

https://omd.olympus.de/site/rooms#sven_meyer_kim_poerksen

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Sonic Water is a cymatics installation.
Cymatics is the process of visualizing sound and vibrations through matter, such as for example sand or water.

In the beginning there was sound.
The reason cymatics exerts such a strong fascination is that we are not conditioned to "see sound". Cymatics is like a magic tool that unveils the true substance of things audible, but conventionally invisible.
With it one can recreate the archetypes of different forms of nature.
So sound does have form and cymatics enables you to comprehend that it not only affects but causes form in matter.
In fact, we think sound had a fundamental influence on the formation of the universe itself. But that is another story.
Primarily, we are fascinated by the simplicity of this subject.
All it takes is sound and a very basic medium such as water to create... well, what could be (and in our view is) the coolest sound visualizer.

How does it work?
Our installation at the Photography Playground in Berlin consists of two different areas.
A self-running installation and a DIY water-sound-image laboratory where people can experiment with their own cymatics.
The setup in both areas is almost identical. The only difference is, that you can use your own camera and create your own soundscapes in the DIY laboratory.
The installation is very simple: A sound signal is used to vibrate a speaker. On top of the speaker membrane we have applied a plate and on the plate we have then glued an ordinary bottle cap. The bottle cap (or the whole plate) is filled with water. The water works as a flexible three-dimensional sculpture mass, that translates the sound into pictures. The vibration of the speaker creates one of a kind water-sound-images in response to the respective sound impulse - from chaotic patterns to standing mandala-like waves.
The camera films the speaker from above and basically shoots a macro mode live view of the bottle cap action which is projected onto a large screen.
When people enter the room they initially just see the big screen cymatics projections. However, once they approach the cube with the speaker they suddenly grasp the setup and have this moment of incredulity and utter bewilderment, that a setup as simple as ours can create such astounding visuals. But this part of our installation is actually just an incentive or an ice breaker.
Our actual intention is for the audience to have fun in the laboratory, where they can create and document their own cymatics.
In the DIY laboratory you clamp a Olympus OMD camera on the stand, which you get upon entering the exhibition and you can then film or take photos of the water-sound-images you create by means of sound signals from a synthesizer, by using your own voice (via a microphone) or by just playing your favorite song on your smartphone.
What does it look like if you hum your favorite tune into the microphone? What does Wagners "Twilight of the Gods" look like in cymatics?
The results are images reminiscent of the shape of flowers, the form of a starfish, the patterns of turtleshells, cell division, the golden ratio, the flower of life - all depending on the individual frequency impulse.
In the laboratory you become the creator, the big bang and part of the genesis.
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Meca

Magnetism II by Ahmed Mater.
Ahmed Mater's official website.

Kinetic sculpture: Bob Potts

Advices from the master: Laurie Anderson commencement speech

Penwald drawing by Tony Orrico

Página oficial de Tony Orrico.

Windswept, by Charles Sowers

Site oficial de Charles Sowers.

Tamaya Shobei IX, a Karakuri master

Haja pescoço!

Cod.act, grupo vocal pendular da Suiça.

Ele está morto e ele vai morrer

Tríptico de Alexander Gardner.
Na foto, Lewis Pain, 26 abr. 1865.
Sobre a foto: Hot Dead Guys.>

A Condição Mecânica - Anthony Burgess

"[...] Reconheço que estou em melhores condições do que a maioria, mas não acho que tenha optado por me eximir da agonia e da ansiedade que atormentam homens e mulheres escravos de vidas que não escolheram, habitantes em comunidades que odeiam. Penso, especialmente, nos cidadãos de grandes centros comerciais e industriais - Nova York, Londres, Bombaim, a minha própria Manchester. "Você comerá seu pão com o suor do seu rosto": o Livro de Gênesis resume perfeitamente. A manutenção de uma sociedade complexa depende, cada vez mais, de trabalhos repetitivos, trabalhos sem prazer ou criatividade. As coisas que comemos, as roupas que vestimos, os lugares em que moramos tornam-se progressivamente padronizados, pois a padronização é o preço que pagamos pelos preços que podemos pagar. A vida simplesmente passa para a maioria de nós, como a hora em um despertador. Acabamos por nos acostumar com o ritmo imposto pela nossa necessidade de subsistência; em pouco tempo, passamos a gostar de nossas amarras.

Um dos slogans do superEstado no romance 1984, de George Orwell, é "Liberdade é escravidão". Uma das interpretações possíveis é a de que o fardo de tomar as próprias decisões é, para muitas pessoas, intolerável. Estar vinculado à necessidade de decidir por conta própria é ser escravo de seus próprios ímpetos. Lembro-me de quando me alistei no exército britânico, aos 22 anos. Inicialmente, me ressenti da disciplina, da remoção de até mesmo a mais ínfima liberdade (como o direito de comer quanto e o que fosse desejado e o direito de ir ao banheiro quando o próprio corpo, e não uma corneta, determinasse). Em pouco tempo, minha redução a mero mecanismo começou a me agradar, a me acalmar. Participar de um esquadrão obedecendo ordens com o restante do grupo, proibido de fazer perguntas ou questionar regulamentos - eu estava, depois de quatro anos de rigorosa vida acadêmica, em férias da necessidade de precisar escolher o tempo todo. Depois de seis anos, posso simpatizar com o civil que não gosta de tomar as próprias decisões (onde comer, em quem votar, o que usar). É mais fácil receber orientações: fume tal cigarro - 90% menos alcatrão; leia tal livro - 75 semanas na lista de best-sellers; não veja tal filme - é pseudoarte.

Talvez exista algo de positivo na submissão social, considerando que a vida dos trabalhadores tem muito pouco espaço para o individualismo: é doloroso ser um especialista em Spinoza à noite e um operário durante o dia..."

Leia o ensaio completo no Estadão.