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* consider turning G-Zi into a live performance with storytelling
* consider turning G-Zi into a live performance with storytelling
* G-Zi should be more thicky and syrupy, form reflecting the content
* G-Zi should be more thicky and syrupy, form reflecting the content
= 17.10.22 Project Mentor session =
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Revision as of 16:18, 17 October 2022

31.01.2022 - David Haines

  • Blake 7 bbc sci fi 80s
  • many signals coming together
  • not making the link of fossils
  • interesting to think of other ways of seeing
  • the directness of the language - so powerful, so many connotations - hard to disassociate from the orignal context - so strong dominant
  • certain langauges are so loaded its a battle to displace it from the context
  • awful lot of information - layered and complex
  • artist Constant Dullart - giftshop, airport lounge, GAN imagery
  • trying to interpret - two i's - the speaker and the artist naviagting the agency
  • double screen is very rich - ways of seeing
  • GAN has deep philosophical connotations
  • Hito Steyerl - new exhibition - Stedelijk
  • Ed Atkins - clashing registers
  • text speaking from - media bombardement
  • Computer summarising meanings - reckoning
  • Next steps: contingent on where your interests lie; continue deep learning see that in its context; assess the words, work with the words; GANs whats the meaning behind them; dealing with the content the transmission of the context; taking the lizard character futher; the double screen, anamorph; could be part of visual language; deanthropocentrising, deanthropomorphising.

07.02.2022 - Cihad

  • machine learning longer
  • build AvP into sound installation
  • 'Production of Space', Bachilaard; mystical spaces Henri Lefbrever
  • Poetics of Space, Bachelard
  • quite didactic - testing different language methods - engagement
  • human - non-human relationships - the text - VR experience - motion capture - in the form of a server - stuck in the screen, trapped in the server - placing them vertically
  • Anex, artist duo, server cages - bonfire art piece
  • content + form = how can the final form refelct the idea

22.02.2022 - Barend (Bubble Tours)

  • What's your specific perspective? What will I get out of it as an audience? What would you want the audience to take away from it?
  • Tell me something I don't know
  • What's my specific position in this
  • Can you make it your own? It's such a general subject
  • What's it a symptom of? What's the broader systemic shift this sits in.
  • Identify the underlying concerns - what's the bigger issue at play

22.02.2022 - Baremd (Lizard Larry)

  • motion capture - speak to Chihad
  • face + body done separately
  • model a liazard (weeks/months) - motion capture and targeting the model - refining the animation -
  • motion capture - real time rendering - Unreal/Unity

07.03.2022 - Ine (Bubble Tours)

  • Is this important to you? What's your message?
  • How much is it science fiction?
  • It was in an industry in Amsterdam - selling hotel rooms that don't exist
  • it would be spooky if he had a neighborhood
  • bubble - surveillence
  • Vladimir Nabokov - The Eye
  • unfindable photo - 90s - strnge still lifes -
  • metaphor - privacy
  • men in white suits - Chernobyl / Belmar
  • Can the removers be in service to the Bubble?

07.03.2022 - Simon (Bubble Tours)

  • The bubble has to have consequences
  • What happens when the bubble arrives?
  • You've got the central image and character. How do people respond to it?
  • Cause and effect
  • Kafka literalizes metaphors
  • Is it in/visible? Does it have a smell? Can people see it?


21.03.21 - Barend

  • black of book reminds obituary
  • cinema 4d light / blender - the donut - displacement maps
  • sphere - 3D noise -

21.03.21 - David (TPDE)

  • abject
  • uncanny - self-disgust
  • Blade Runner - imposters
  • Murakami -
  • Kyodhi Kurosawa 'Pulse' (2011)
  • grim

11.05.22 - Steve Rushton

  • Ant Fram - media burn - The Eternal Frame
  • OLIVER LARIC Versions (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMjsJgTfZok
  • Liebach - Slovenian rock band art group - relates to Zizek's 'overidentification'
  • develop a more embodied mode of address for Purge

23.05.22 - Simon P (G-Zi, V01)

  • interesting level of detail
  • surprised to learn it's a performance - not a VO
  • speaking of mongrels - Jews/cosmopolitanism
  • Trade import/export
  • Are there many documents or photos of the family?
  • The language sounds metaphorical but it is of course literal - incredible amount of drama in the real stories e.g. '...underground networks to sing in the house of worshio'
  • encouraged to do a long research process and travel to Iran + to create objects building up to an exhibition

23.05.22 - Rosella (G-Zi, V01)

  • pacing is different or inbalanced - could be more consistent or intentional
  • seems to be propelled by action - what if there's more non-space e.g. like the saucepan boiling, there's a lot of overlapping information
  • it's described as a performance - what if the video was a one shot lasting the duration of the cooking?
  • is moving away from first person perspective necessary? It disrupts the immersion. Can it be a more extreme disruption?
  • possibility that this is a prolonged period of artistic research and documentation leading to a work which is more 'mediated'or formally considered


25.05.22 - Steve Rushton

  • meal as feeding propelling the
  • curiosity about the black limes - acts of violence
  • fishing programme - attempting to
  • in the cook programme - slef confessional identity -
  • idea of fulfilling the apetite -
  • boil it down - stewy
  • character is you but it's also emerging
  • venn diagram - food - vlogging - etc
  • Pages Magazine, gives a voice to the diaspora, based on a healthy cultural life that is discrete and cryptic + Nazeer ; Rib Gallery in the South of Rotterdam, father was a poet - make documentaries that the artist
  • i'd like to know what you do with this
  • visceral things + visceral text - quite tasty
  • domestic - feels isolation - is it an isolate character -
  • see how it's thickening up over time - do more of it
  • text
  • crypted jews - encrypted secret -
  • George Perec - 'W A Childhood War' reading - Jewish lived in Paris during WW2, lived on the coast in plain sight, concelaing their religion - juxtaposed with a fairy tale olympian Utopia the Aryan race - part of alepo wrote 'Life A Users Manual' about moves on a chessboard - 'The Void' without the letter 'E' again exclusion
  • Cryptic Jew - Wandering Jew - codeswitching - shapeshifting - relates to class in UK - disguising how elevated/
  • Bodily movements
  • Restraint/excess controlled
  • embedded history
  • considering your own position in relation to where yuour from - meal as a portal to the past to relate to family - to tell the story of hiding in plain sight - you should do a few more - get richer thicker - connections will start to appear - & the characterisation of yourself will grow stronger as well -
  • you're a medium since you're relaying what you heard in another place - youre channeling something from the past - it's all embodied through the voice -
  • connections - where am i and what's my place - amongst all these conflicting discourses - is it enough just to regurgitate existing text - is it a way to construct an identity - its an exploration of these things - i thin theres something about in/authenticity a very high form of art
  • playing with identity - always more complex than where were from and the religion we were born into
  • 'Argo' with Jon Goodman and Ban Affleck - lots of typecasting etc.


=30.05.21 Cihad (G-Zi)

  • Sebatayism - Sebaty Sevi - a 'donme' or messiah
  • Amin Malouf ' In the Name of Idenity'/'Balthazars Odyssey: The One Hundred Names' about Sebaty Sevi
  • relation of Amsterdam to diaspora - melting pot, Spinoza
  • make a map you carry all this movement in your body - food/cooking as a carrier/vessel
  • how to interview without showing faces
  • how to convery or present research - does it all need to be said - or just the tip of the iceberg

=30.05.21 Tim Leyendekker (G-Zi)

  • share an experience - tactility - material
  • main materials - food and textiles
  • personal - single person perspective
  • body cam obvs close to your body in contrast with surveillance - camera become more synonymous with surveillance
  • contained generosity - sharing but witholding - questioning access to other cultures - reflects anthropological distance even when conducting autobiographical research
  • Claudia Roden 'Jewish Diasapora' cook book

Listening workshop with Etienne Karlos 20-24 Sep 2022

  • Deleuze unthought
  • W - Rossilini neorealist cinema
  • R - Chekhov - interstitial space, liminal space, etc.
  • R - Notes on Cinematography, Bresson
  • R - The Jesus Incident, Frank Hubert
  • Short Stories, DH Lawrence + Willa Cather
  • George Kuchar, Weather Diaries


Visual Abstracts 28.09.22

  • R - Cannibal Manifestoe
  • R - How Forests Think. Latin American anthropology
  • W - Black Audio Film Collective on LUX - 'Twilight City', interview found footage scenes
  • get in touch with Benjamin Cook (programmer) for institution access
  • openbeelden.nl - big image archive
  • R - A feminist counter-apocalypse
  • doc Lisbon - no distinction between documentary and film

03.10.22 Laura (Third Rock)

  • R - Ursula Le Guin, The Carrier Bag of Fiction. essay
  • W - Sun Ra's Space is the Place
  • w - Sohpia Bogadnovich, 'MS Slavic Siren'
  • R - Directing Actors by Judith Weston
  • perhaps find Iran in your locale
  • trigger the archive within the film universe - what cause and effects can it create?
  • importance of improvisation. give the film a more intuitive feel. Feed the fabric of the actor into the character
  • science fiction as diasporic
  • world making
  • film is already like a microscope - so don't necessarily need to magnify it
  • sci fi can be really interesting without stylising - finding the uncanny or otherworldly in everyday material

03.10.22 Project Propsal session

  • finding the third idea between Purge (G-Zi) and Heterotopia (Third Rock)
  • W - Killing of a Sacred Dear
  • W - Journey to the Moon, Kutlag Ottoman
  • W - Nathaniel Mellows, vide artist
  • consider improvisation and shoulder cam in future - treat fiction like a documentary, documenting performance
  • consider turning G-Zi into a live performance with storytelling
  • G-Zi should be more thicky and syrupy, form reflecting the content

17.10.22 Project Mentor session