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The Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest) and the Soros Foundation C3 Center for Culture & Communication, in collaboration with the Orokmozgo Filmmuseum of the Hungarian Film Institute, have the pleasure to invite you to the screenings of David Larcher including a discussion with the author within the framework of the Projected Perspective screening series Friday, 9 July 1999, from 6.30 pm at the Orokmozgo Film Museum, Budapest, Erzsebet krt. 39, tel.: 36.1/ 342.2167 David Larcher Granny?s Is (GB, 1989, video, 78?) Remembering an old woman in fragmented and alienated associations. The attempt to find one?s own history in the image of the late grandmother. An attempt also to bridge the gap between a sentiment and its linguistic form with the means of video aesthetics. A radically experimental work. VIDE�VOID: Trailer (F, 1993, video, 33?) From the trace produced by a single drop-out is created a series of digital landscapes that provide the backgrounds for the flight of the Zenonian arrow towards void. The absence of information in a drop-out creates the space which defines a coincidental arrow on a collision course with the proverbial flying equation asymptote. The central � interfaces the French word vide with the English void? these meet in the real world of the River Vidus as if flows through Void the town. The tape is spun off the top of a monopole and folded into cypher space; a simulation referenced to the occasional Elysian field magnet as it tries to attract that electron you?re not seeing before it gets to the hypothetical target of your mind? reflection of its virtuality rather than anything real. VIDE�VOID: Text (GB/F, 1993, video, 29?) The video surfs on the interface between sense/nonsense. The point of departure is the space between an unsynchronized signal. From here it produces itself through the mirror effect of self-reflection. The ?Deadline? takes its last breath, which is just enough for the transit of a floating significant. Through their conscious use, the ?void? of such phenomena as drop-outs and misguided chromonance signals suddenly turns into an image ?texture? that constitutes meaning. Out of the hiss of false information universally known effects spaces and landscapes of a dark, novel beauty take shape. ?I will make a poem of pure nothing.? David Larcher ICH TANK (F/D, 1983-97, video, 50?) Psychobabble in a bubble In a loose sort of way it focuses on psychoanalytic forms and procedures. Lacanian ideas, schemas, underlie much of what goes on in the tape. His categories of Symbolic, Imaginary, Real translate particularly well into video, whilst his formulas and diagrams often rely on visual analogies. His seminars, ?The eye and the gaze?, ?The line and the light?, refer directly to optical phenomena, and his later concerns with topology and knot formation lend themselves to illustration in a visual format. These ideas will not be referred to directly; rather they will be made implicit. The tape will conform to the analytic hour (50 min.), which would coincide neatly with the TV hour of 52 minutes. The presence of the 3 Fish, Ich, Analyst (once again Symbolic, Imaginary, Real) will reinforce the illusionary nature of I-dentification, my interpretation being seen to derive from a common sense Euclidian version of space. The aquarium acts as a framing mechanism. The analyst will in principle remain outside the frame. He will play the role of supervisor, security camera, lecturer/teacher, etc. There will be visual ambivalence in the fact that I will look 12 years older a different moments of the tape. - Rudolf Frieling, after David Larcher ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest) and the Soros Foundation C3 Center for Culture & Communication have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture of Martin Kemp and Antonio Criminisi a special presentation of the Perspective on Perspective scientific symposium Monday, 12 July 1999, 6 pm in the lecture hall of the Mûcsarnok Perspective by Hand and by Computer Martin Kemp has, over a number of years, been investigating the perspectival construction of Renaissance paintings, using a range of visual and written evidence, including technical examination of paintings and drawings. More recently, Antonio Criminisi has been devising programmes for the reconstruction of 3-dimensional data from 2-dimensional images. The intention of the paper is to conduct a dialogue between the two modes of analysis, in such a way that the historical is informed by the technological, and the technological is undertaken with full awareness of the historical realities. The material will range from hand-drawn analyses to animated images on computer with special studies of Masaccio?s Trinity and Piero della Francesca?s Flagellation. MARTIN KEMP was Professor of the History and Theory of Art at the University of St. Andrews, British Academy Wolfson Research Professor (1993-8) and is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci. The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man (1981, winner of the Mitchell Prize), The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (1990), Behind the Picture (1997, winner of the President?s Prize of the Italian Association of America), and Imagine e Verita (1999). He is currently writing a regular column in Nature on art, science, image and culture. He is completing From a Different Perspective: visual angles on art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest), Budapest XIV., Hõsök tere Adele Eisenstein Perspektiva/Perspective Symposium/International project coordination C3: Center for Culture & Communication Pf. 419, H-1537 Budapest, Hungary (Budapest 1014, Orszaghaz u. 9) Phone: +361 214 6856 Fax: +361 214 6872 http://www.c3.hu/perspektiva ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <[email protected]> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe [email protected]