On side conquests of foreground

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"Focused on visual imagery and detached from social and contextual considerations, the celebrated architecture of our time - and the publicity that attempts to convince us of its genius - too often has an air of self-satisfaction and omnipotence. Buildings attempt to conquer the foreground instead of creating a supportive background for human activities and perceptions. Architectural projects of our day are often impudent, staged and arrogant, and our age seems to have lost the virtue of architectural neutrality, restraint, and modesty."

Visiting a notorious museum, the day before the next show opening, Sam Renseiw took a stroll in a gangway, crossing, while recording footage. View the resulting voodle-architectural-promenade, suspended between certainty and uncertainty, lure and repulsion, faith and doubt by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 564, 02'49'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08 week 5 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a walled piece of visual public announcement in the act of fine-tuning. ( Lum # 80, "sudoku art board " 00'49'', 5.3Mb, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at the main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video replay-supplement features a contrasting architectural masterpiece interior, with annotated, Beckett commentary. Click here or on the bold text to view (patafilm# 49-back numbered- [03.11.2005 post] ,00'50'', 5.1MB Quicktime/mov)

The impact of modernist architecture

" For the poets of the Noigandres group, the concept of "concrete" was taken in an architectural sense: a structural material of "endless expressive possibilities," the element that not only would free architecture from the tyranny of beaux arts language, but also would enable it to address pressing social needs. This close association of concrete poetry with modernist architecture is revealing. The movement so strongly identified itself with modernism that its own modernity became obsolete; in other words, once the "concrete lexicon" was exhausted, the Noigandres poets were unable to develop their concrete project any further. Moreover, vlog concrete visual poetry also shared with modern architecture ideas that run from the broad social concerns of modernism-- such as utopia, utilitarianism, and sanitation-- to technical and stylistic matters involving structure, modules, form, and repetition."

A Renseiw concrete, material architectural (re)view, with clear links to futurism and Noigrandes. Join here or click in the crypt.

Meaningful, to talk about noise

" Some would say that it is no longer meaningful to talk about noise as something special, since we have finally reached a state in which all sounds are equal. That may be so for certain avant-garde artists and advanced listeners, but I will assert that we still hear a difference between noise and more traditional musical sounds. Noises are the sounds, which used to be denounced as non-musical. To include noise in video thus still has an effect and bears a certain aesthetic power. That power is the topic of this short film. There is a constant discrepancy between the essentially indescribable object and the attempt to verbalize and understand it. It is my hope that the following video is nevertheless able to sketch out an approach to understanding the important part noise plays in the music of today’s vlogs."

IX. tried with reasonable success. Sam R’s visual, paraphrases with some reasonable quotes, to give some insight on the topic. Enter the surprising short walk here, or branch in the picture above (click)