User:Inge Hoonte/Notes Luis

Luis presentation 10/10

Illustrate several parts of the process.

Micah Rothenberg. Lots of stuff going on, one product, many people part of this. How do you convey this?

Simon: system thinking, how systems interlock. Form for proposed piece is quite classical, not associative or linked.

Sebastian: what if you would create a social machinery? In your process you can see entire process.

Not fixed to four-screen installation form. Is it interactive?

Cash machine at Venice Biennial.

Renee: Our Daily Bread. Doc on food production. Detail and pan out. Simon: BBC-Watched over by machines of love and grace. Alan Greenspan. Ayn Rand.

Manufactured Landscapes.

Laurier: your own voice missing in proposal. What's your angle on social production?

Luis: society wants us to think our actions are meaningless.

Dusan: cybernetics. Systems control.

Phil Niblock. The movement of people.

Netherlands history of documenting industrial processes. Rotterdam in 1940s, work ethic. Wederopbouw.

Harbor.

Notes on text

Machine movements, choreography of urban life.

Response to 5 questions - Kinetic art, and sculptural movement installations, in which one moving object excites the next, act & response. More in one place, Moholy-Nagy of course, wikipedia suggests "A Sequence of Sensations", 2001 Sal Maccarone.
I've only seen a few larger ones, room-filling, video documentation, I believe, but I can't recall names right now... Maybe Amy knows, there was one on view earlier this year at Roodkapje. This is not the mechanical detail and sound you seem more interested in, but might offer something else.

Koyaanisqatsi.

What you describe also reminds me of minimal music, when you hear and see Phillip Glass perform for example, you just see machinery, repetitive movements in a factory, city life.

- Don't be too afraid to make a cool choreography. It can be a very powerful one. Take a look at Candice Breitz, she did a recording of the entire Bob Marley album, The Legend. It's a multi-channel video, on one big wall, with a multitude of people singing the album, song by song, as a haunting choir. So simple, so captivating.
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- 'social machinery' reminds me of phones or the back end of facebook or something, not the types of machines you seem to investigate. Your term 'Society as a machine' seems more accurate to what you're talking about.

- Superior organism, society as a machine. A car door slamming >> a person jumping into a train while the doors are closing >> a faucet dripping or rain falling into a puddle, or something bigger, like the water coming out of the back of a big boat, gushing back into the river >> washing clothes by hand on a board >> close-up of hands playing a stand-up base.