[-empyre-] week three | locative scraping and counter-surveillance

[Dale Hudson]

Thanks, Michael, for this information and the link to the article.

Are you working on any new projects that explore the fabrication of truth in news?

I’ve been struck by the ways that French news this past week reminds me of U.S. news after 9/11. 

France 24/7 was 24/7 on the attacks with little space for the news elsewhere apart from French military strikes. 

Best,
Dale


On Nov 20, 2015, at 22:36, Michael Takeo Magruder <m at takeo.org> wrote:

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> Many thanks to Dale and Patty for inviting me to be a part of this week's
> conversation.
> 
> The artworks of mine that Dale referenced in his introduction are still
> online and working (even though they were created around a decade ago). They
> can be accessed here:
> 
> "[ FALLUJAH . IRAQ . 31/03/2004 ]", 2004
> http://www.takeo.org/nspace/ns011/
> 
> "{transcription}", 2006
> http://www.takeo.org/nspace/ns017/
> 
> Both projects are aligned to my longstanding exploration of global news
> media. This thread of my practice certainly relates to examining the
> contextualization/decontextualization of information flows, and how history
> is formed - or even fabricated - in the present data-driven age. Within this
> context, I am particularly interested in how the notion of 'truth' is
> derived and then propagated or subverted by systems of "freedom and control"
> (linking into Robert's thoughts from his last post).  
> 
> A few years ago Jo-Anne Green (co-director of Turbulence.org) authored a
> very insightful essay - entitled "Parsing Truths" - about this area of my
> work. In it she writes:
> 
> "Frequently, Takeo arrests this often instantaneous, sometimes contextless
> 'reportage' and re-mediates it within a 'contemplative space' in which
> deeper truths stand a better chance of being revealed and understood. He
> captures headlines and articles about worldwide, often catastrophic, events
> from the 24/7 'space of flows' (Manuel Castells), demanding that we see,
> read and listen. He juxtaposes/opposes multiple media streams - image, text,
> sound - within single works, bombarding our senses until we are able (if we
> are able) to separate the 'signal' from the 'noise': 'narratives are like
> temporal filters whose function is to transform the emotive charge linked to
> the event into . units of information capable of giving rise to something
> like meaning.' (Lyotard) While Takeo rescues some of these events from
> potential obscurity, he does not pretend to present them factually. He does,
> however, want us to experience them authentically."
> 
> The full essay is available in my 2012 monograph "(re)mediation_s" -  a free
> PDF version of the book is available to download here:
> 
> http://www.takeo.org/projects/remediations/
> 
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> Michael Takeo Magruder
> www.takeo.org
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