Pocket cinema: Maquinas & Almas (Souls & Machines) – Documentary
Maquinas & Almas (Souls & Machines) – Documentary is an accompanying film of 33 minutes length that covers the synonymous exhibition held two years ago in the National Museum “Centro de Arte Reina Sofía” in Madrid.
The exhibition and documentary cover high tech and low tech aspects, including innovators and makers such as Theo Jansen and his Strandbeests, media design by John Maeda, robot by David Hanson, or Sachiko Kodama‘s Ferrofluid, among many…
Theo Jansen: Strandbeest (c)
Pocket cinema: Reactive Books by John Maeda
You know, my digital dad is media artist and designer John Maeda… of course, he doesn’t know that I even exist… I mean, he has lotsa digital kids scattered around the cyberspace…
Oh, how I like his work, because his books are like the Tao Te Ching for us, digital natives trying to find a glimpse of nature in rows and rows of pixels…
Photo: John Maeda, taken from karagatan.wordpress. com
Body cinema: Merce Cunningham’s solo dance in Good Morning Mr. Orwell
Here is an excerpt from Nam June Paik’s TV program called ‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’ (1984) featuring choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham dances with satellite-delayed images of himself, overlaid with crawling text about George Orwell’s time in Spain.
Video still from Good Morning Mr. Orwell by Nam June Paik (c)
Borut Savski’s Strained Structures
Borut Savski’s artwork Strained Structures (2008) is deeply rooted in Slavic culture and it’s an intuitive linguistic journey through English, Slovene and Croatian… Let’s see how Savski connects etymology with electronic mechanisms…
Strained Structures by Borut Savski, photo: Nada Mihajlovic