thanks... i just got a chance to meet them when they were visiting Israel few weeks ago and i was looking for this one
S.A On Mar 5, 2012 1:50 PM, "info" <[email protected]> wrote: > Invisible Airs Documentary > > "Alistair Oldham an old film maker friend of mine has just just uploaded > the "Invisible Airs" documentary. This is Alistair’s particular take on > databases and the events that surrounded our work in Bristol. As > database's become active mediator's in their own right, actors > constructing, organising and modifying social relations and I'm often in > a position of addressing new public’s, outside of specialist knowledge > and trying to explain the complex machinery that's behind the lived > logics of databases. Alistair’s film will be a key tool with which we > will try to generate discussion." Graham Harwood. > > http://yoha.co.uk/ia_documentary > > Invisible Airs – Documentary by Alistair Oldham "The computerized > database is fundamentally changing society. From communication, to > government, transport, shopping, friendship, health, education, > narrative and even the way we watch film, the database is radically > transforming our lives. And yet we are only barely aware of its > existence, we don't really know what a database is : like electricity, > it's pervasive and all around us , but we cannot actually see it. > Digital media artists YOHA set about making the database visible. > Working with Bristol City Council in England, they use local government > expenditure to explore the relationship between the database, power and > expenditure. Turning the pounds sterling of expenditure into the pounds > per square inch of pneumatic pressure, they make a suite of engineered > mechanical contraptions: an expenditure filled potato cannon, an Older > People Pneumatic Floor Polisher, an Expenditure Riding Machine and a > Open Data Book Stabber. But as they tour these contraptions around > Bristol, they become embroiled in the more fleshy realities of the city, > in the form of the Royal Wedding, local anti-Tesco riots and the > censorship of a local outdoor cinema. Invisible Airs is very much a > story of our time, of our obsessions with data, ordering and sorting and > its uneasy relationship to the visceral bodies bound in cities." > > Alistair Oldham <[email protected]> > http://vimeo.com/36567631 > http://vimeo.com/acaciafilms > > -- > Other Info: > > Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network > http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since > 1997 > > Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: > http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery > > About Furtherfield: > http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about > > Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. > http://www.netbehaviour.org > > http://identi.ca/furtherfield > http://twitter.com/furtherfield > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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