Tasks, tasks and more tasks…

7 March 2010 • inner
tags: cinema, dreamachine, events, flicker, rain, sound

Lately I’ve been working a lot. Besides my ‘official’ job as translator and my own projects I’m collaborating (as part of mediateletipos) with the festival Sensxperiment and we have a lot of things in perspective.

Right now we are already publishing some texts on the subject of the festival, Sensory Immersion, but we are also preparing the first exhibition, centred in the Dreamachine. Today I’ve finished the translation of the film FLicKeR, by Nik Sheehan, that will be one of the two stars of the exhibition, the other one will be, of course, a Dreamachine.

I hadn’t translated subtitles before and it’s a hard job, and quite slow. Fortunately, we had the original transcript in English, but still I’ve had to check the film continually.

Is Sunday and I’ve been working all day, and tomorrow the week stars again with its usual rhythm and tasks. Right now it’s raining, but I’m to tired to go out and record this wonderful sound…

Watchings

7 March 2010 • watchings
tags: appropriationism, brain, cinema, comedy, documentaries, dreamachine, economy, fantasy, fiction, flicker, hallucinations, humour, sex, structuralism, television

• Flicker (2008)
Nik Sheehan

• Heroes, Volume 5: Redemption (2009-2010)

• Muchachada Nui, 4ª temporada (2010) [watch]

• The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Steven Soderbergh

• Outer Space (1999) [watch]
Peter Tscherkassky

• Arnulf Rainer (1958-1960) [watch]
Peter Kubelka

Watchings

18 November 2009 • watchings
tags: body, cinema, dreamachine, flicker

• Geography of the Body (1943) [watch]
Willard Maas

• Towers Open Fire (1963) [watch]
Antony Balch & William S. Burroughs

• The Cut Ups (1966) [watch]
Antony Balch

• Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) [watch]
Paul Sharits

• Unrolling Event (1965) [watch]
Paul Sharits

• The Fury of Sneezing (Kurt Schwitters) (2009) [watch]
Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Readings

7 November 2009 • readings
tags: analysis, articles, brain, cinema, dreamachine, flicker, hallucinations, television, video, videoart, visualmusic

• From Stroboscope to Dream Machine: A History of Flicker-Induced Hallucinations
B.C. ter Meulen, D. Tavy and B.C. Jacobs b. European Neurology Vol. 62, No. 5, 2009.

• Décor by Timothy Leary [read]
Mark Alen. The New York Times. January 20, 2005.

• The Touch through Time: Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the Transmission Technologies of the Avant-Garde
Ina Bloom. Leonardo - Volume 34, Number 3, June 2001.

• Gnosis and Iconoclasm: A Case Study of Cinephilia
Annette Michelson. October, Vol. 83 (Winter, 1998).

• Review: Yann Beauvais (ed.), Paul Sharits
Federico Windhausen. Animation: An interdisciplinary journal. July 2009, Volume 4, No. 2.

• The Films of Peter Kubelka
Earl Bodien. Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter, 1966-1967).