Main Entry: os·cil·late
Pronunciation: ‘ä-s&-”lAt
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -lat·ed; -lat·ing
Etymology: Latin oscillatus, past participle of oscillare to swing, from oscillum swing
Date: 1726
1 a : to swing backward and forward like a pendulum b : to move or travel back and forth between two points
2 : to vary between opposing beliefs, feelings, or theories
3 : to vary above and below a mean value
synonym see SWING
- os·cil·la·to·ry /’ä-s&-l&-”tOr-E, -”tor-/ adjective
February 21, 2007
Postmodern Flanerie
Hi everyone…
Just to add an art historical element to the lab, I’ve been looking into Surrealist theory, particularly Breton’s concept of ‘Automatism’, his auto-biographical ’Nadja’, Baudelaire’s ‘Forest of Symbols’, Aragon’s ‘Paris Peasant’, the idea of ‘profane illumination’ and other writings on the Surrealist City. The flaneur is the key theme…which led me onto placing it within the twenty-first century context, investigating how the modern day ‘flaneur’ navigates the cityscape visually, but more interestingly, aurally…not only within the confines of the city, but all that extends beyond it.
a few thoughts and references…
- Aural ‘forest of symbols’? How sounds govern/guide everyday existence.
- “Qui suis-je?” ..Modes of self-exploration: mentally investigating the private whilst physically inhabiting the public.
- Psychological spaces.
- Achieving a sense of ‘place’.
- SOUNDS IN THE CITY – see The Auditory Culture Reader for texts by Fran Tonkiss (Aural Postcards: Sound, Memory & The City), Les Back (Sounds in the Crowd), Jean-Paul Thibaud (The Sonic Composition of the City), Caroline Bassett (How Many Movements?) and Michael Bull (Soundscapes of the Car)
- Paris as ‘lieu de memoire’ in twentieth century…modern day equivalents?? See False Urban Memory Syndrome by Austin Williams http://www.futurecities.org.uk/archive/arch_essay03.html
- The ‘ non-place’… Head Out on the Highway: Anthropological Encounters with the Supermodern by Samuel Collins http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.996/review-2.996
- The Cyborg Flaneur? – see Passage of the Flaneur by Gaylene Barnes http://www.raynbird.com/essays/Passage_Flaneur.html
- Postmodern flaneur? http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=34&page=1#1031
- Data-flaneur and data-dandy http://www.mith2.umd.edu/teaching/courses/s06/engl758a/?p=29
February 13, 2007
net art / software art links
Hi, found these links in my arhive. some of them might be interesting for our project.
NET ART:
A classical early 90s work by the duo Jodi: Jodi – failure and aesthetics…
Carlo Zanni: eBay Landscape – a landscape based on real-time informations on the internet; fx eBay, CNNs ect. Made me think of Tomo…
Jimpunk: 1n-0ut takes control of your computer…take care!
SOFTWARE ART (these are the most interesting for our guidance theme – resistance of softwareguidance…):
Adrian Ward: Auto-illustrator – shows how software programs controls/influence creativity
Peter Luining: Formulas and Plug-ins Revised. A plug-in to your softwareprogram – here it’s photoshop – you have to download. Then you have the opportunity to use a Michel Foucault-filter on your pictures in photoshop…
hope you enjoy the readingweek… sidsel
February 13, 2007
net art / software art links
Hi, found these links in my arhive. some of them might be interesting for our project.
NET ART:
A classical early 90s work by the duo Jodi: Jodi – failure and aesthetics…
Carlo Zanni: eBay Landscape landscape based on real-time informations int the internet; fx eBay, CNNs ect. Made me think of Tomo…
Jimpunk: 1n-0ut takes control of your computer…take care!
SOFTWARE ART (these are the most interesting for our guidance theme – resistance of softwareguidance…):
Adrian Ward: Auto-illustrator – shows how software programs controls/influence creativity
Peter Luining: Formulas and Plug-ins Revised. A plug-in to your softwareprogram – here it’s photoshop – you have to download. Then you have the opportunity to use a Michel Foucault-filter on your pictures in photoshop…
hope you enjoy the readingweek… sidsel
February 8, 2007
theory
Ian Penmann (in Undercurrents): Voice and the microphone
Steven Connor : On ventriloquism
Alvital : The Telephone Book
Agamben : The State of Exception
Derrida : on copyright
Michel Serres : Les sanc sens (Empire of the Senses, essay by Steven Connor)
Deleuze :
Foucaul :
Andre Breton : The city
Aragon :
February 8, 2007
Keywords
Sampling, citation
Ventriloquy
Politics, voice, bare life
Voice and the microphone – how to talk in the microphone/megaphone
William S. Borroughs : Tony and Bill
Science and travel – positive science
Law and travel – related to subjective experience
Language, law and science
Kancelli – law language
The societies of control – relates to the temporality of guidance – guidance is for beginners, continuity (the subject moves from institution to institution, each of them having its own rules. When people move to a new institution they need guidance). Language is important – as guidance of guidance.
Disciplinary societies, discontinuity – Foucault
Continuity and discontinuity
Lifelong learning
Selfgouvernmentality
Guidance through senses
Visualisation of sound.
Dopplereffect – situating oneself by the sound of something passing by
Alarmsystem
Civil Defence Siren
Audioevacuation
False alarm
Revolutionary slogans
February 2, 2007
Guidance
Guidance can refer to many things, although it is generally understood as an activity related to our senses: smelling, hearing, touching, seeing, tasting and even the sixth sense. With regard to this, guidance is both exterior to oneself like using tools or codes of guidance but also interior with respect to decisions, feelings. I believe that although guidance is too much related and controlled by power, the same guidance for different people have a differentiating effect in every individual. For the reason that, every experience contain a potential individuality which will constitute a potential for guidance to be different, failure or success.
