Dear all -
A journalist called Yvonne Volkart contacted me last year to ask if she
could use some references to the ‘Dr Hairy in: Big.Data’ videos in an
article she was preparing for the Austrian magazine /springerin
<http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft.php?id=86&pos=0&textid=0&lang=de>. /
/Springerin/ is ‘a quarterly magazine dedicated to the theory and
critique of contemporary art and culture… Artists, gallerists,
collectors, art pedagogues are served by /springerin/ as well as readers
from the field of the humanities and those generally interested in new
media and popular culture.’
She’s just sent me a copy of the article, which appeared in the last
edition of the magazine last year – she says she didn’t let me know
earlier because she hoped it might be made available online, but it
hasn’t been. You can download a copy in .png format from
http://edwardpicot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/volkart_springerin_bigdata.png
.
Unfortunately it’s all in German, so it’s a struggle for me to
translate, but I’ve managed to pick out the following – ‘wie die
kartoffel mit dem schragen tomatenmund oder schlaue Grabber mit dem
puppen- babyface und dem aufgeklebten backenbart’, which Babelfish
renders as ‘like the potato with tomato mouth or clever Grabber with the
puppet-babyface and the whiskers glued-on’. Brilliant!
An Austrian TV series is surely bound to follow.
- Edward
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