M Ward



music

Sable Island Poet — Jill MacLean — 44°N 60°W



“curve to your own mortality, see how
grasses grow through an empty hoof
and watch the migrant finch, its feathers
the blue of ocean, intensified
as a lens bends
sunlight to burning”



gps, poet, poetry

Julian Rosefeldt



A film still from “The Perfectionist.”
Julian Rosefeldt, a German artist born in 1965 who lives in Berlin, makes “visually opulent, earnestly political films and videos. His work is high-minded, excessively middlebrow and seemingly bent on tweaking consciousness seductively and without strain,” writes Roberta Smith.



video

Stimmhorn


Border crossers in the Helvetic landscape of sound



affect, voice

ZTOHOVEN



“On the June 17th 2007 our group invaded media and television territory intruded and impeached its trueness as well as its credibility….”

Image of a nuclear explosion broadcast on tv by hactivists.



activist, death

The Architecture of Listening



“MEDIA DETERMINE OUR SITUATION” writes the German theorist Friedrich Kittler, imagining a world where human perception and being are replaced by archives, code, systems, and networks. This is not the stuff of science fiction—to be unleashed on us in some distant future—but rather the present. — Chris Salter



academia, new media, simulation

Rin

Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular – New York Times

Rin, 21, tapped out a novel on her cellphone that sold 400,000 copies in hardcover.



digital poetics, txt, writing

Jan Svankmajer – Food – Breakfast



abstract, animation, fluids

The Secret of the Golden Flower


Rational thought benefits from an enhanced acuity of intuitive perception.



abstract, wisdom

Media Art Net | Weibel, Peter: Video Texte


«Video Texte» (1975)

weibel-videotext

A sequence of video-specific poems. Purely linguistic poems which are constructed on the temporal, sculptural and technical possibilities of the video system. Evolutions of some methods of concrete poetry. The TV set becomes a processual text object.



abstract, digital poetics, poems, video

Bill Seaman

Passage Sets (1995)



academia, digital poetics

Valie Export

Expanded Cinema
as
Expanded Reality



academia, branding, video

Gary Hill.

MoMA.org | The Collection | Inasmuch As It Is Always Already Taking Place. 1990



digital poetics, poets, polyartist, video, vidlit

MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2005 | OWLS AT NOON Prelude: The Hollow Men

“Chris Marker combs a vast beach of images to create an echo chamber in which the viewer can either remember or witness for the first time the reality of a civilization’s self-slaughter.”



abstract, art, artist, video

M. Ward

www.myspace.com/mward



music, video

Steal This Film II



copyright, web 2.0

Jimmy Owenns



photographer, portfolio

zbigniew libera



raster



cruelty, culture, sculpture

Einstein



“This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor… This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.”
— Albert Einstein



advice, military, violence

news – analysis – conspiracies

cryptogon.com :



consumption, military, revolution

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