On Vining as space-time continuum

vinecompilation # 5 from sam renseiw on Vimeo.

"Synaesthetic Vining is a space-time continuum. It is neither subjective, objective, nor nonobjective, but rather all of these combined: that is to say, extra-objective. Synaesthetic and psychedelic mean approximately the same thing. Synaesthesis is the harmony of different or opposing impulses produced by a work of art. It means the simultaneous perception of harmonic opposites. Its sensorial effect is known as synaesthesia, and it's as old as the ancient Greeks who coined the term … Any dualism is composed of harmonic opposites: in/out, up/ down, off/on, yes/no, black/white, good/bad. Past aesthetic traditions, reflecting the consciousness of their period, have tended to concentrate on one element at a time. But the Paleocybernetic experience doesn't support that kind of logic. The emphasis of traditional logic might be expressed in terms of an either/or choice, which in physics is known as bistable logic. But the logic of the Cybernetic Age into which we're moving will be both/and, which in physics iscalled triadic logic. Physicists have found they can no longer describe phenomena with the binary yes/no formula but must operate with yes/no/maybe."

Quoting/paraphrasing from Youngblood's seminal "Expanded Cinema", Sam renseiw extrapolates further via a newly compiled condensation of onehundredandsixty Vines from spring 2014 (February - May), giving patalab viewers new insights into the mundanities of recorded quotidian via Vine. (vinecompliation # 5, , 14'44'', 365 MB, Quicktime/mov > at Vimeo)

On [almost] inhabiting the Dolphin Hotel

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" Whatever it is one is seeking won't come in the form one is expecting...Thus I (also) often dream about the Dolphin Hotel. In these dreams, I'm there, implicated in some kind of ongoing circumstance. All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity....It seems more like a long, covered bridge. A bridge stretching endlessly through time. And there I am, in the middle of it. Someone else is there too...Time weighs down on me like an old, ambiguous dream. I keep on moving, trying to sleep through it... Another possibility is just plain voodling. Voodling on and on. Entering the world of voodles and never coming out. Living in voodles for the rest of time...."

Paraphrasing Murakami's dance steps and while taking the Possibility of an Island as just that, Sam Renseiw recalls a recent trip to Fionia by concocting footage left-over into a parabolic space, in triptych form. View yet another voodle-detournement exploring (again) morphologies of body and space by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 784,02'35'',37Mb, Quikctime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a fine Danish shoreline, secured for bathers. [Lum # 280, "ishøj beach" 01'00'', 12Mb, Quictkime/mov)

On the condensation of voodling(s)

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“ Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the Voodler has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.”

Paraphrasing Tocqueville, Sam Renseiw, equally longing for grounding and instability, condensed some (more)of last quarters recordings into a stupendous kaleidoscopic successions of architectural spaces, all the while remembering Valery's dictum of “The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of moving images for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”; View the unfolding ("We have always sought explanations when it was only representations that we could seek to invent") by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 751, 02'43'', 37MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a recent zen like reflection (Lum #251,"double reflection",01'00'',12.3MB,Quicktime/mov) Brittany&Andreas' seminal Lumiere Manifesto continues to inspire!!

On place & memory in a moving image

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" I travelled for four more hours to Belo Horizonte this Sunday morning. The heat & humidity were tropical, while it was freezing cold on my balcony. I stayed indoors, having a long and warm conversation with E. She also showed me her dog, barking in the garden, from the balcony. The fleeting image of the dog kept on lingering in my mind & blended with memory snippets of E. entering the the air-conditioned room & closing the door. "

In the attempt to gather some contours of space and movement, Sam Renseiw, stretched a snippet of skyped Brazilian time and re-framed it. To view the resulting elongated morphology of body and space click here or on the links above. (patafilm # 668, 04'37'', 30,2MB, Quicktime/mov - Other versions on Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another passage, yet, it is not an Embraer (Lum # 182, "passage " 00'31'', Quicktime/mov)

Introite nam et hic dii sunt

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"... A particular feature of this (docu) voodle is the unusual use of some narrative text. Yet, it neither dominates nor is it subjected to the image. Rather it is rhythmically interwoven with it in a crude way, together with the addition of a soundtrack. The original was a booklet, hand printed in only 21 copies... In a way, with this printed work we betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan a long time ago. So there is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening..."

The booklet, an accompanying catalogue to an temporary installation work entitled "Architext" might as well be re-voodled decided Sam Renseiw, more than 16 years later (those where the days). View the crude montage with sound by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 663, 02'44'', 21.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more recent up-lifted endeavour. ( Lum # 178 " towering asbestos "00'44'', 5Mb, Quicktime/mov)