The word spectrum derives from the latin for ghost.
The spectrum is also a kind of trace, an operation in which a parameter (frequency, mass, etc) is displayed and analysed within a continuum.
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Trace and audio walks
Janet Cardiff’s audio walks
a kind of conceptual blend in which a layer of sound is overlain an urban walk.
Is trace a fundamental aspect of intermedial processes – that which is passed on as a trace?
Paul Sietsema is a good example of an artist using intermedial processes
Camberwell New building- low residency survey
rough edit of video from visit to new building which is just about to be fitted out.
Photograms workshop
David Claerbout
David Claerbout – Algiers – sections of a happy moment. Projected slideshow
A kind of conceptual blend in which a single moment is constructed from multiple pictures taken from different viewpoints and projected as a slide show.
Turns out to be ‘impossible’ because even with 100 cameras around the scene the cameras themselves would appear in the pictures. In the actual slide show no cameras are visible.
The work is in fact a digital reconstruction, each photograph references the other and is constructed from a series of composited elements.
Agamben- articles and books
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Agamben’s take on Time – to be read later
10-aby-warburg-and-the-nameless-science
Agamben on Warburg. Links directly to Notes on Gesture and his theory of the image.
5-on-the-possibility-of-formless-life-agambens-politics-of-the-gesture
4-gesture-time-movement-david-claerbout-meets-giorgio-agamben-on-the-boulevard-du-temple
Janet Harbord (see also book on Agamben) discusses Claerbout in the context of Agamben and film philosophy.
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2-in-a-messianic-gesture-agambens-kafka
Good treatment of Agamben’s Kafka
2-difference_and_repetition_on-guy-debords-films
Main Agamben article on film.
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One of two or three essays on gesture
Short essay on early photography – ref by Harbord
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1-chapt-5-the-homeland-of-gesture-art-and-cinema
Alex Murray’s book. Need to read it all, but this deals with Gesture and film.
1-agambens-cinema-psychology-versus-an-ethical-form-of-life
Janet Harbord – to be read, along with the book.
Chelsea pop-up show 2nd-8th February
Introduction to 3D sound workshop
INTRO TO 3D SOUND workshop at C&R –
Just did this – the ambisonic recordings of sounds around Deptford were interesting
great for soundscapes..
Course info
This 2-day course is aimed at artists who are interested in producing work using multiple loudspeakers to create immersive aural environments. We have recently purchased a Core Sound Tetramic Ambisonic microphone and a 3Dio binaural microphone so participants will be able to get some hands on experience with capturing their own 3D recordings.
You will learn techniques for multichannel diffusion, compositional strategies, field and close-microphone recording techniques, spatialisation and diffusion, psychoacoustics and installation practice.
The weekend will be led by C&R co-founder Tom Slater
Trace-gesture and Agamben
Just read Agamben’s Notes on gesture, also his paper on Aby Warburg.
also Jill Bennets -the gesture of intermediality. link to follow
These papers seem to provide a way of thinking about the intermedial gesture and media in general.
Trace – figure/ground
Trace – evidence, detection, objectivity. also hunting and survival.
Figure/ ground – pareidolia, imagination, subjectivity, playing.
These oppositions seem to form a dialectic in our relationship to images.
Odradek's Journey 