Hi David, Between working on the factory floor and computer programming as a hobby I've had little time to take much notice of the news and events.
So I scrolled down past the images you post about here. to the line drawings. Then I come back to the post and read what you've said and then go back and look at the images from Al Jazeera and see your lines again. Thanks for posting. James. On 4 February 2011 22:55, David Papapostolou <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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, Underworld 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/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- _ : http://jwm-art.net/ -audio/image/text/code/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
