Writing Exercise Re-View

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Mark Ingham

CTS 2 option Writing as Practice

In the next two weeks you are to write a review of and exhibition, film, play or any ‘cultural event’ of between 200 and 500 words,. It must include images and can include moving images and links to other resources.

Reviews of this sort, as with a great deal of writing, are often divided into three distinction sections.

The first section describes what the cultural event’ comprises of. The artist/designer/cultural producer, the venue the objects are described in enough detail for a reader to be able to understand what the cultural event’ is about. In this review you are to use as many images as you like, that are your own or from other reviews.
The second section situates the work on display in a number of relevant contexts. This can be, but not limited to, historical, political, sociological and conceptual contextualisation. You can…

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The virtual is not the immaterial

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Mark Ingham

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On Friday 30 September 2016, at the Iklectic Art Lab near Waterloo, London, the Informed Matters community of practice held its first symposium. It was entitled “Material Others and Other Materialities”. A Storify-cation of the Symposium can be found at https://storify.com/anotherwindle/informed-matters-flusser-and-bec

In the first presentation of the Phenomenological Materialities panel, Ken Wilder in a paper entitled “The Immateriality of Titian’s Pesaro Altarpiece”, posed the question of how the seemingly ‘immaterial’ (cloud) could be represented (in a material medium, that of paint) so that it could serve as the ground (a material metaphor) for the ascendancy of the Virgin Mary from the material realm to the spiritual (‘immaterial’) realm. His talk was therefore densely allegorical, but allegorical as a mode of the critical relation, while also seeking to show that this seemingly ‘immaterial’ ground and this seemingly ‘immaterial’ destination are themselves grounded in the institution of the Catholic Church, which is…

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BOING!

Aside | Posted on October 5, 2016 by Mark Ingham

SYMPOSIUM

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Mark Ingham

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Material Others and Other Materialities

September 30, 2016 12.45 – 6.15pm

Iklectik Art Lab, 20 Carlisle Lane, London SE1 7LG

In their short philosophical fable ‘Vampyroteuthis Infernalis’, Vilem Flusser and Louis Bec compare human existence to that of a deep-sea squid, the Vampyroteuthis Infernalis. In the process they raise questions about the relation of cognition, culture and sociality to corporeal anatomy and environment. Flusser and Bec’s ruminations form the background context and connecting thread for this symposium, which brings together 10 papers to explore questions of materiality and otherness, specifically in relation to art and design and media. All presentations take a point of departure from Flusser and Bec’s text to discuss an artefact in relation to the symposium’s themes.