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RECODING VISUALIZATION IN THE TIME OF WEB: THE CASE OF I LOVE YOU BY JACQUES PERCONTE (2004-2015)

by Bidhan Jacobs

Designed and published online on October 14th 2004, restored for The Wrong (Again) – New Digital Art Biennale on November 1st 2015, the website I Love You by French artist and net-art pioneer Jacques Perconte is not only a wonderful achievement of his research on image files visualization through the Internet, but also a fundamental piece in his artwork, and this for three reasons: first, it crystallizes a history of audiovisual technologies in the web age; next, it allows the analysis of his singular inventions on plasticity which are shaped by the offensive processes and techniques Perconte has developed until 2015; finally, it makes explicit the artist’s constant will to put the body to the test of digital technologies (in this case the partner’s body) and to literally inject life (each and every thought, interest, feeling, emotion, excitement, and desire aroused in him by the beloved body).

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2016.05.02
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NICK BRIZZ. UNFAMILIAR CHANGES: ACTIVATING GLITCH

By Tara Judah

Nick Briz, whose ‘how to glitch art’ hypermedia essay/tutorial/video I’ve taken as this article’s opening quotation, creates new media art, organises new media art events and works as a professor in a fine arts college in Chicago where he and his students discuss and produce experimental new media art. He also co-organises a conference interrogating the politics, progression, aesthetic and movement of glitch art called GLI.TC/H

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2016.05.01
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RGB XYZ BY DAVID O’REILLY

Por Mónica Delgado

En RGB XYZ (2008), el irlandés David O’Reilly compone un universo salido del Paint, así de amateur en su trazo como dislocado en su estética, y observado desde un amago de drone endemoniado, que subvierte todo el mundo, rompiendo la gravedad y que permite el gobierno absoluto del pixel gigante y en completa ebullición. Como en sus trabajos posteriores, existe una fusión extraña, en la necesidad de romper con una convención de los límites de la animación propia de Hollywood, aliada a una sensibilidad punk para arrastrar a sus personajes a submundos decadentes y de crisis existenciales.

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2016.05.01
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ON LAB LABA LABA (SPIDER LAB) AND THE PLAYFUL REINCARNATION OF THE PROPAGANDA FILMS OF NEW ORDER ERA INDONESIA

By Lauren Bliss*

In early 2015, the Indonesian experimental film co-operative Lab laba laba (Spider Lab) restored for exhibition a large number of propaganda films that had been produced in the abandoned film studios of the State Production Film Centre (PFN) in Jakarta. Having been left to the elements for nearly 12 years, the PFN was once the central film production house of New-Order era Indonesia.

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2016.04.24
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GOD’S LEFT INDEX FINGER: ON JONATHAN DEMME’S “THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS”

By Victor Bruno

Over the last few months—starting with the release of Ricki and the Flash (2015) on home video—I developed an interest in Jonathan Demme’s cinema. As I watched his films, I developed a few ideas and scratched some notes on them about his ideas, interests and general style. That, by coincidence, happened to coincide with shifts on ideas of my own. Some of these notes were abbreviated and became my entry on MUBI’s Notebook fantasy double-feature pool.

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2016.04.24
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EDWARD HOPPER: THE MIRROR EFFECT

By Vica Smirnova

Since the 1930s Hopper has been quoted endlessly: De Mille and Siodmak, Hitchcock and Lynch. Hopper’s infinite stylizations reproduced the same effect of subtraction of the human, priority of space over its character. In his Victorian cottages, deserted cafes and hotels, a character was present only to point out his own insignificance. Hopper invented an absent America, and having fallen in love with its own reflection, it forgot about the author, as if this landscape had materialized out of thin air and had existed from the start.

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2016.04.23
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BERTOLUCCI’S “FAKE OPHELIA”

By Luke Scerri

It is an unfortunate undeniable occurrence that in film criticism, the importance of the musical contribution to the transformation of the art form is quite often overlooked, or underestimated because of several other factors that seem to strike the viewer at first glance. Bertolucci’s Last Tango In Paris is certainly no exception.

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2016.04.22
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ABOUT “JE M’APPELLE HMMM… “

By Claudia Siefen
In all this passivity, ignorance and awkwardness wrapped up in cotton wool, Céline (Lou-Lelia Demerliac) is such a strong character almost inappropriate for a child. The camera and framing (Jean-Philippe Bouyer) stays close to the protagonists that you literally feel the cramped confines. Here the so called grown up world means not to mention certain things, to play the game of not talking.

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2016.04.19
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BEAUTIFUL YOUTH BY JAIME ROSALES

By Rebecca Naughten

Ostensibly a social realist drama, Beautiful Youth follows Natalia (an impressive performance by Ingrid García Jonsson) and Carlos (Carlos Rodríguez), two working class twenty-somethings each living with their respective mothers and caught up in Spain’s economic crisis with little hope of employment or future security. Natalia’s pregnancy becomes the central focus of the narrative as the demands of familial responsibility impact on the pair differently and push the couple to breaking point.

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2016.04.12

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