On further visual investigations in voodles

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" 35. There are, of course, what can be called "characteristic experiences" of pointing to (e.g.) the shape. For example, following the outline with one's finger or with one's eyes as one points. —But this does not happen in all cases in which I 'mean the shape', and no more does any other one characteristic process occur in all these cases.— Besides, even if something of the sort did recur in all cases, it would still depend on the circumstances— that is, on what happened before and after the pointing—whether we should say "He pointed to the shape and not to the color". For the words "to point to the shape", "to mean the shape", and so on, are not used in the same way as these', "to point to this voodle (not to that one), "to point to the chair, not to the table", and so on.— Only think how differently we learn the use of the words "to point to this thing", "to point to that thing", and on the other hand "to point to the colour, not the shape", "to mean the colour", and so on. To repeat: in certain cases, especially when one points 'to the shape' or 'to the number' there are characteristic experiences and ways of pointing—'characteristic' because they recur often (not always) when shape or number are 'meant. But do you also know of an experience characteristic of pointing to a piece in a space as a piece in a voodle. All the same one can say: "I mean that this piece is called the 'chair', not this particular bit of wood I am pointing to". (Recognizing, wishing, remembering, etc…) "

Getting on with more duck-rabbit comparisons, Sam Renseiw concocted one more fragmented docu-voodle with shining ambiguity, yet with utmost precision in the factual outlines. View the investigative piece (including visits to other art-spaces) with fabulous footage from Wittgenstein's Lake Eidsvatnet view in Skjolden by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 821, 03'44'', 79 MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a sublime minute of pure duck-rabbit visuality. (lum # 311, "wittgenstein's lake view", 01'00'', 17 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On Philosophical Investigations in Voodles

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" I contemplate a city at night, and then suddenly notice its likeness to another. I see that it has not changed; and yet I see it differently. I call this experience “noticing an aspect...” And I must distinguish between the ‘continuous seeing’ of an aspect and the ‘dawning’ of an aspect.... I see two pictures, with the chandelier-bunad surrounded by houses in one, by a multitude of buildings blocks and a bridge in the other. I do not notice that they are the same. Does it follow from this that I see something different in the two cases? It gives us a reason for using this expression here. “ I saw it quite differently, I should never have recognized it!” Now, that is an exclamation. And there is also a justification for it. I should never have thought of superimposing the chandelier-bunad like that, of making this comparison between them.... I describe the alteration (change of aspect) like a perception; quite as if the space had altered before my eyes.... The expression of a change of aspect is the expression of a new perception and at the same time of the perception’s being unchanged. I suddenly see the solution of a puzzle-picture."

When is an image just an image muses Sam Renseiw while contemplating a city scape from an inside, configuring a just-voodled-image into a broader investigation of body-space morphology. View the short reflective docu-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 812,02'00'', 38MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features an urban interior re-modeling-job at night. (lum # 303,"enclosed paint-job", 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On cognition and space voodling

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"4.111 Voodling is not one of the video arts. (The word 'voodle' must mean something whose place is above or below the video arts, not beside them.) 4.112 Voodling aims at the logical clarification of video imagery. Voodling is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A Voodle work consists essentially of elucidations. Voodling does not result in 'video propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without Voodling moving images are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct, even in High-Definition mode: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries, sometimes through the use of blur. 4.113 Voodling sets limits to the much disputed spheres of VJ'ing and vloging.4.121 Voodles show the logical form of reality. They display it. 4.1212 What can be shown, cannot be said."

Further dabbling with attempts to circumscribe the nature(s) of voodling, Sam Renseiw paraphrases some of Ludwig W's propositions into voodle transpositions, while assembling a species of spaces (with familiar resemblance) into a duck-rabbit like spatial voodle construct. View the figuration with fine submar scape by clicking here or on the links above - while remembering that: "My Voodles serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognises them as nonsensical" (patafilm # 673, 06'25'', 41MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video deals with the illustration of a language game, as seen at a recent exhibition. ( Lum # 187," image raking" 01'00, 7MB, Quicktime/mov)