[-empyre-] July on empyre: Screens

[Kriss Ravetto]

Dear All,

Finding it hard to catch up being on the Pacific.  Sorry for the lag, and/or repetition.

> Hi Martin,
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Thank you for the post, I very much like the discussion of emergent screen topologies and embodied sculptures.  I would like you to say more about these — maybe when we discuss a work. But I am less convinced by the point about personal experience.

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> The primary role of the screen, as Simon points out, is now one that mediates or remediates the world in a growing number of ways  (although the internet of things and NFS promise to make direct -and screenless-interaction more prevalent)  not as another space like cinema , where fantasy is experienced through a locked and dreamlike suspension, but as a dynamic and changing condition of experience, where the user is interactive or pro-active in creating their own personalised experience.
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Can we add to the paradigm sustainable business models, modes of distribution, and legal restrictions, copyright, and Intellectual property laws? And to the notion of personalization, profiling?  If we add these terms would it still really give us the personalized experience you are suggesting? 
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> I am happy to be more forensic in trying to understand the new uses of screens from the user/audience perspective and working outwards from that place. I am certainly not arguing against understanding the social/ commercial imperatives for the huge expansion of mobile and urban screens and their concomitant social problematics or the new semiotics of this communication mode.
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 Martin, reception theory is going to haunt you with control groups, statistics, leading questions... How could an interest in user/audience perspectives not be also an interest in social / commercial imperatives? 
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> Hope we can start to look at examples and specific ideas

I think that Sean and Johannes have given us some great examples — Rafael, Wodiczko, Olivier Nakache und Éric Toledano.  I don't want to drag Rafael into the conversation too early, but his work has also been mentioned a number of times.  Plus for selfish reasons I would like to discuss some of his work alongside Simon's (Sue's and Garth's) "body text."   http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/body_movies.php, http://www.articulateanimal.org.uk/bodytext.htm.  
However, the term 'forensics' scares me a bit if we are going to talk about works by artists contributing to this conversation. So maybe it is better to start with Wodiczko's projection of swastika South Africa House in London in 1985.   If Ian has a game he would like us to look at (besides Dwarf Fortress) that would be great as well. 
Or if we want to talk mirrors (as Sean suggests), we can also go to British TV, and think about the use of the screen in Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror (three episodes).

All best,
Kriss
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