Hi James! Many thanks for looking up my work. I am glad you looked at the drawings too, and back to the Cairo screenshots; i haven't thought much how these were related, but i guess a starting point could be the dichotomy between artefact and technology.
Cheers David > 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 > > End of NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 824, Issue 1 > ******************************************** > -- David Papapostolou http://dpppstl.tumblr.com/
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