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Re: [nettime-lat] Viewing Axolotls ... a visual narrative, somereflections and a game |
AÍ Regina ! Você não para de preduzir coisas sensacionais ! Beijokas & Parabéns, que estes Axolotls vão longe ! PV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Regina Célia Pinto" <regvampi@iis.com.br> To: <nettime-lat@nettime.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:24 PM Subject: [nettime-lat] Viewing Axolotls ... a visual narrative, some reflections and a game > VIEWING AXOLOTLS > ... a visual narrative, some reflections and a game > http://arteonline.arq.br/viewing_axolotls > > by Regina Célia Pinto > > Based on: > > "There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to > see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours > watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am > an axolotl. > I got to them by chance one spring morning when Paris was spreading its > peacock tail after a wintry Lent. I was heading down tbe boulevard > Port-Royal, then I took Saint-Marcel and L'Hopital and saw green among all > that grey and remembered the lions. I was friend of the lions and panthers, > but had never gone into the dark, humid building that was the aquarium. I > left my bike against tbe gratings and went to look at the tulips. The lions > were sad and ugly and my panther was asleep. I decided on the aquarium, > looked obliquely at banal fish until, unexpectedly, I hit it off with the > axolotls. I stayed watching them for an hour and left, unable to think of > anything else." ( from The End of the Game / Axolotl by Julio Cortazar, an > argentinean writer). > > and > > "After 500 years of printing, 150 years of photography, a century of film > and 50 years of television, > reality programming has reached maturity. > Consumers live scripted lives, while reality-creating machines predict all > their movements. > This phenomenon is so powerful that everyone actually has two bodies: one > real and another fictitious (shaped by received data)."* > > How can we change the bundles of pictures that falsify reality? Is this a > desirable "reality"? > > *BERNARDO, Gustavo. A dúvida de Flusser - filosofia e literatura. São Paulo, > Globo, 2002. > > > _______________________________________________ > Nettime-lat mailing list > Nettime-lat@nettime.org > http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-lat > > Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra. > Scan engine: VirusScan / Atualizado em 29/01/2004 / Versão: 1.4.1 > Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://www.emailprotegido.terra.com.br/ > _______________________________________________ Nettime-lat mailing list Nettime-lat@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-lat