Dear list, for my first ever post, here is an attempt to convey/portray/assess something of: - the making of the collective perception of what may be referred to, a posteriori, as a major event; - how this is mediated through our engagement with some sort of mass media; - in turn how the experience becomes the event itself; - how the medium and its limits (technical or otherwise), inherent artefacts, may play the lead part in framing our experience of the event; - and more on aesthetics, abstraction, technology, the representation of politics in art, painting...
Departure day, Tahrir 1-8 (after Don Delillo) http://dpppstl.tumblr.com/ The starting point is, of course, the events in Egypt, today's gathering, the expectation that it may have significant political impact, or not; then Don Delillo's work, Underworl<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_%28DeLillo_novel%29>d in particular: this "where were you when IT happened?" question and the related "how did you hear about it?", the radio, the cathode tube, the photograph clipped from a newspaper; and of course my own experience following these events through online media, in this case live TV broadcast by Al Jazeera. Departure day, Tahrir 1-8 (after Don Delillo) is a collection of screenshots of Al Jazeera's live coverage, taken during and shortly after today's prayer on Tahrir Square, Cairo. While some of the pictures clearly refer to the event and are open to interpretation, emphasising the complexity of engaging with the events remotely as we are still assessing contradicting analysis witnessed through mass media coverage; others are more strikingly abstracted to the point of bringing the medium to the foreground, and may be assessed aesthetically rather than for their informative coverage of the events. The work can be seen there: http://dpppstl.tumblr.com/ Best David -- David Papapostolou http://dpppstl.tumblr.com/
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