I am in a sesshin, a 2.5-day short form of intensive Zen meditation. Thoughts and images about the artificial general intelligence (AGI) that we are currently creating keep coming to me. More and more people from the fields of humanities, psychology, or team organization are showing themselves to be impressed, surprised, or anxious regarding AGI's capabilities. It seems the Turing test was passed some time ago, and we are now watching an intelligence develop that seems superior to us. This intelligence...
Retinal Art and the Ruins of Representation: Revisiting Plato’s Cave and the Notion of Rasa in the Natyashastra Christoph Kluetsch “Something in the world forces us to think. This something is not an object of recognition, but a fundamental encounter.” Gilles Deleuze – Difference and repetition p. 139 “Minds exist only in relation to other minds.” (Mihai Nadin) “even those elements designated as „basic“ or „proto-elements“ are not primitive but are, on the contrary, of a complex nature.” (Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art)
(this is an old text of mine, found in the archives. It is strange to read it again, as it shows to me how desperately I tried to get out of the trap of representation and the urge to embrace a philosophy of immanence. I went through so many ideas, looked at so many artists – I never did anything with the text, as my self-critical voice didn’t consider it to be any good. I have to say I like...
Manifest Dance-film festival July 28, 2023 to July 30, 2023 https://auroapaar.org/festival/ What actually manifested there? The moving images, which emerged from latent images and are ‚brought to life‘ in their sequence of at least 24 images per second, these images of dancers, who were already at the beginning of cinematography according to their genre, these images were shown at the Dance-Film Festival Manifest from July 28 to 30, 2023 at the Alliance Française in Pondicherry. During the 2.5 days of the festival…
This text deals with the theory of art in classical antiquity, in particular the concepts of mimesis and aisthesis and their significance for the representation of works of art. The relationships between subject, object and language are also discussed.
Exhibition „Roots From the Sky“ by Cedric Bregnard at Centre d’Art, Auroville March 2023 Cedric Bregnard is an artist in residence at the Centre d’Art in Auroville. Over the next 2 months, he will take a photograph of the Banyan tree in the Matrimandir garden. This photograph will then be scaled to the size of a wall (approx. 3x7m) in the gallery. Residents of Auroville are invited to trace the light and shadows on the bark, leaves, and roots in ink onto the wall. What lies behind this process...
Why do we need a biennial? I have often asked myself this question. Before COVID-19, I visited many places with international cultural events. During lockdown, I co-organized an artist residency program to reflect on the impact, threats and opportunities of COVID-19 for cultural workers. Everything went differently than expected. Now everyone is trying to get back to normal. Have we thoughtlessly spent trillions of euros and dollars to maintain a system that desperately needs a change?
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