Scanning Deep

Scanning Deep

Date: 
29.01.2015 14:30
Edition: 
2015
Format: 
Screening
Location: 
HKW
HKW - Lecture Hall

The fascination of the mechanical-optical-chemical Capture All has long been eclipsed by that of imaging modalities.

With works by Martin Rikli, Jean Painlevé, Gary Hill, Patrick Lichty, Emily Pelstring, Semiconductor, Arash Nassiri

"I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see." (D. Vertov about the camera, 1923) The fascination of the mechanical-optical-chemical Capture All has long been eclipsed by that of imaging modalities. A scan does not look at the world, it samples it, penetrating deeper into the material and altering it.

Röntgenstrahlen by Martin Rikli, de 1937, 18 min
Cristaux liquides by Jean Painlevé, fr 1978, 7 min
Electronic Linguistic by Gary Hill, us 1977, 4 min
Subterranean Homesick SSTV Blues by Patrick Lichty, us 2014, 9 min
Doing My Rounds, Checking Some Rounds by Emily Pelstring, ca 2013, 6 min
Some Part of Us Will Have Become by Semiconductor, uk, 2012, 4 min
Tehran-Geles by Arash Nassiri, fr, 2014, 18 min
 

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