On enigmas of voodle transparency

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"The essential difference between painting and voodles is the difference in the manner in which they, not the beliefs of those who see them, are based on beliefs of their makers. Voodles are counterfactually dependent on the voodled scene(s) even if the beliefs (and other intentional attitudes) of the voodler are held fixed. Paintings which have a counterfactual dependence on the scene portrayed lose it when the beliefs and the visual experiences which the viewer derives from a picture are dependent on the picture maker's beliefs in whichever manner the picture itself is. I order to see through the voodle to the scene(s) depicted, the viewer must have visual experiences which do not depend on the voodler's beliefs in the way film or paintings do. We can leave open the question of whether, to be seeing (the voodle)scene(s), the viewer must have beliefs about it and what connection there might be between his/her visual experiences and beliefs."

Reflecting on the state(s) of visual readings in an advanced digital age, Sam Renseiw montaged bits and bouts from recently recorded footage into a enigmatic docu-voodle; Thus maintaining, in chronological (and slow obssessive-complusive) diary manner, a Proustian pursuit of matter and memory. View the cut-up, filmic document with footage from three cities, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 818, 04'39'', 61MB, Quicktime/mov -other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple, straight-forward scene of age-old activity, re-performed. [Lum #308," sandvikan drummers", 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime /mov)

On over your cities grass will grow

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" A voodling device is less of a machine to produce order than a trap to catch randomness; A trap to transfix those small details that one would find banal, or farcical, or anecdotic, or just plain goofy, but that are, nevertheless, the intrinsic fabric of the voodle on its way to be made. Ultimately, the real enemy is rational intention. To me, voodling is what enables the elimination of all traces of intents. You must understand that I value such concepts as: randomness, serendipity, experimentation. These are things that interest me greatly in what may become, in reverberations, new reflections on the nature of voodles.."

Paraphrasing Labarthe, Sam Renseiw persist with his prolonged obsessive-compulsive voodle experiment, this time with yet another attempt at the repossession of space(s) with recently captured footage. View the discretely cut-up, hastily montaged docu-voodle of documented spaces with distinct songs without words overlay by clicking here or on the links above to realise how randomness and serendipity always seem so intentional after the creative act. (patafilm # 791, 02'14'', 33MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a distictive overview, fair to art .(Lum # 285 "art-fair-art " 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

And, regarding other ways of anticipating space: a special bonus-video, [©],a bookish treat, dedicated, from the patalab archive: abstract space(s) out-layed, cut-up, unfolded. (patalabarchive# 1, 02'32'',39MB, Quicktime/mov)