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Translation Format #1: Powerpoint for Global Art Forum 6 at Art Dubai 2012, by Kari Altmann, at the request of Victoria Camblin
PowerPoint is omnipresent. From bored boardrooms and continuing education seminars to military briefings at the Pentagon and in Kabul, with art fairs in between. Editor/art historian Victoria Camblin has curated a special series of PowerPoints, created collaboratively by contemporary artists, writers, creative entities and duos, that celebrate, critique and creatively exploit the medium’s strange, story-telling familiarity. Featuring Douglas Coupland (Keynote), Ayshay + Kari Altmann, Goldin & Senneby, LuckyPDF and Alexander Provan (Triple Canopy). Available to browse in the Forum-Forum.
Through the abstracted framework of a promotional corporate slideshow, the product of “Jemsheed,” a devotional love song by Ayshay (Fatima Al Qadiri), is revealed. The nonsensical glyphs created by human response to touchscreen interfaces are presented as a new, hybrid, and alien language—unearthed from beneath the system of screens and images that technology uses to demonstrate and sell itself.
The repetition of the name Jemsheed in the song, like the repetition of hand movements onscreen, is an expression of devotional desire. The Powerpoint, made as a response to the music by Kari Altmann for Global Art Forum, posits this devotional yearning toward a technological system that aims for bodily control. The result of this new interaction creates a new language, whose glyphs appear like remnants from an unknown civilization, and suggest a relationship that is both distant and intimate.
Text source: http://karialtmann.com/work/2012/jemsheed/
Good morning and wwwelcome to the first installment of WWWorld Click, where I’ll report on the vagaries of online behavior, bravely click through links of spurious interest, and act as internet interlocutor in the meta-minstrelsy of logged-on linguistics. First up, for those of us—and we are legion—who can muster neither the effort to visit much-talked-about exhibitions nor the guilt for having missed them, a poem by esteemed writer and Rhizome staffer Brian Droitcour: And here,… [read more »]
Tracklist Arca – Bar Fight Arca – Little Now A Lot Arca – Return Bilal – All That I Am (Arca Remix) Arca – Betelgeuse Wash Arca – Body Effects Arca – Is This Love Arca – Manners Arca – Boyous Craig David – Fill Me In (Arca Edit) Arca – Osiris (Killing) Arca – Security Arca – 2 Blunted Arca – Resistiré Arca – Body Rush MeLo-X – Xtra Drop (Arca Edit) Arca –… [read more »]
In an economy that’s globalizing faster than you can say 是, everyone’s flailing to find a common linguistic ground on which to exchange ideas and goods without the crucial information being lost in translation or in pronunciation. One YouTube user has set out to compile a primer on How to Pronounce some key phrases in American English. Here are our favorites—words that speak volumes about America in the twilight of the English-as-lingua-franca(confusing Italian reference to… [read more »]
DIS/dump was a week-long collaboration between DIS Magazine, dump.fm, and you. During the week of August 8–14, users participated in an image-enabled visual conversation, dumping the latest in image/fashion/art/lifestyle/branding/whatever. By hotlinking images, uploading from their hard drives, or using their webcams, DIS/dump users visualized funny, beautiful, and profound combinations of ideas, expressing NEW STYLE OPTIONS in real time. The images below, rather than a “best of,” represent several waves of topics that arose during the… [read more »]
Tomorrow night, Club Infinity returns for a special release party for beloved NYC producer and DJ Kingdom‘s new That Mystic EP (we’ve heard it, and it’s incredible), out on Night Slugs on Monday, July 26th. Joining Kingdom are Brooklyn’s Dre Skull and Nadastrom’s Dave Nada with what’s certain to be a bangin’ Moombahton set. It kind of has to be; he literally invented the genre. And if that’s not enough to get you out, trust… [read more »]
Not sure why Europe has its culottes in a twist over burqas. Julie Andrews is covering up completely—sealed in, even—and she looks like the opposite of oppressed. Nevermind those Cole Porter lyrics! Could sexy Snuggies be a future DIS winter trend? Julie’s got our “faux modesty” trend down pat.
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