Re: [-empyre-] locative city, annotated space a

[hight@34n118w.net]

>> yes.  a powerful piece in a complex place rich with history and layers
> if there ever was one
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>> Jerusalem
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>> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 hight@34n118w.net wrote:
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>>>>> To all eyes pointed toward empyre:
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>>> If you could pick one place in the world to use some form of locative
>>> technology to "read" where would you choose and why?  What place
>>> fascinates you with architecture, natural forms, layout, decay and/or
>>> redevelopment.....etc?
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>>> It could be paris or a vacant lot.
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>>>>> Great. I'm going to check it out.
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>>>> The film is an amazing documentary (came out in 89 but still is
>>>> fascinating).  The structure that links the sections together is the
>>>> narrator (sounds traditional.....but..). He is a man or puppet
>>>> connected
>>>> to wires heading off in many directions to monitors, each of which
>>>> holds
>>>> and runs a specific video and audio segmente. The interview with a
>>>> former
>>>> nasa head who argues that the moment a shuttle astronaut fixed
>>>> something
>>>> inthe shuttle bay he was a true fusion of man and machine/cyborg as he
>>>> had
>>>> two lines running essential feeds, one to him and one to the computer
>>>> on
>>>> his back. He could not have completed the task without the computer
>>>> and
>>>> vice versa. The narrator has his eyes closed and describes a dream,
>>>> and
>>>> this narrative links to the segments. A japanese robotics
>>>> designer/engineer  shows the marilyn monroe robot he has been working
>>>> with
>>>> for years and it crushes him that he can't get it, yet he also says
>>>> things
>>>> that indicate he has fallen in love with it!
>>>>
>>>> I love Vertov's "man with a movie camera".  It shows technology as
>>>> both
>>>> advancing and segmenting out aesthetic experience and time, memory,
>>>> movement.  The point when the film "breaks" into still photographs is
>>>> amazing as it questions the intrusion of the observer as much as an
>>>> imposed narrative on singular moments and architectures.  I show it to
>>>> my
>>>> students with "La Jetee", "Metropolis" and "Fast, Cheap and out of
>>>> Control".
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>>>> I have long wished to teach a class somewhere that centers on
>>>> Duchamp's
>>>> nude descending a staircase and the female robot in metropolis. The
>>>> class
>>>> will look at the concepts of technology, form, function, beauty,
>>>> movement,
>>>> feminism and the way technology references woman and form.  There is a
>>>> linguistic component too (how new concepts and tools are called "sexy"
>>>> for
>>>> example).
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>>>> Small note - I think you'd find a reference to 'machine dreams' of
>>>> interest in Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason - the line goes
>>>> something like 'it was the machine in them that did the dreaming' - in
>>>> reference to assembly line workers - Alan
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