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<nettime> Jordan Crandall: Drive |
Drive is a seven-part video installation that combines traditional cinema with military tracking, identifying, and targeting technologies. Incorporating old and new, analog and network, civilian and military, Drive moves toward a post-cinematic language - one that has specific historical and political resonances. Jordan Crandall writes: "Cinema has helped to establish the set of conventions through which the world of movement has come to be represented. In computerized tracking and targeting systems, however, movement is indicated differently. It is represented by way of its processing through databases. The format of the database is superimposed upon the cinematic image-field, fusing with it to generate a new kind of moving image. Harnessed to escalating new technologies -- embedded within warfare complexes both national and corporate -- these new images do not so much represent movements as track them." As Peter Weibel describes, they mark a shift from presentation to processing. Moving from the cinematic paradigm to that of the visual database, Drive emphasizes the militarized complexes within which contemporary images are embedded, their emerging formats of regimentation, and the particular ways in which they 'arm' vision. It marks the ways in which these forms and processes are deeply connected to changing patterns of perception and embodiment. Alongside this militarized 'strategic seeing,' Drive registers an exhibitionistic impulse -- a 'seeing back.' This impulse is bound up in new processes of identification, integration, and incorporation as sources of erotic pleasure. Drive looks at the new erotic worlds that open up within what can otherwise be seen solely as a technics of control. These involve new couplings of humans and machines; new senses of intimacy and invasive pleasures that usurp private space; and new forms of simultaneously seeing and being seen - which are helping to change the contours of the body, its desires, and its sense of orientation in the world. Accompanying the exhibition is a 256-page book, including an introduction by Peter Weibel, which serves as both a catalogue of the exhibition and a collection of Crandall's writings from the years 1994-99. A symposium will also take place during the exhibition. Jordan Crandall: Drive Curated by Peter Weibel 27 January - 12 March, 2000 Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz Sackstrasse 16, A-8010 Graz Austria tel +43 316 82 91 55 fax +43 316 81 54 01 email post@neuegalerie.stmk.gv.at http://www.neuegalerie.at Drive has been produced with the support of Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum; Eyebeam Atelier, New York; and Filmmakers Collaborative, New York. Additional support has been provided by ZKM, Karlshrue. DVD production has been provided by Zuma Digital, New York. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net