14.6.16

Harun Farocki Serious Games


Harun Farocki Serious Games Excerpt 1, 2 and 3

Harun Farocki, Parallel I and II-V - materiality, boundaries, borders and the edge of worlds

Very engaging film critiquing the world building in computer games, with interesting discussions about crossing borders, boundaries and what happens when the world runs out and we are off limits?


This is part of the series Parallel I-IV also exhibited at the Whitechapel in 2016.

27.4.16

Imaginary Spaces in Painting

Georgio De Chirico and Roberto Matta



Massaccio Trinity, 1425 Santa Maria Novella, Florence the implication of the viewer in the work



Immersion: Janet Cardiff and Mike Nelson

While thinking about immersion and engagement here are egs from Fine Art: Mike Nelsons Coral Reef Installation from 2000 (shown more recently at the Tate Britain) and Forty Part Motet, an installation by Janet Cardiff from 2001