DIRCK MÖLLMANN:
DIFFERENCE OF MEDIA?
The medium video is characterized by a
continuous flow of electronic signals processing
instable images. The electronic
image is generated by the simultaneous
play of emergence and disappearance. Its
generic instability usually remains unnoticed.
Film knows the illusion of the moving
single images, video invented the
simultaneous operation of receiving and
transmitting electronic signals and the
computer offers the infinite manipulation of
the pixels. The perfection of the technical
apparatus darkens the distinction between
reality and virtuality. Hence occultism
meets the media inasmuch both methods
use process-related, transformative techniques
of simultanity and manipulation for
transmission and reception.
ROMEO GRÜNFELDER:
MEDIA AND DIFFERENCE
According to the documentary excerpts as
well as staged examples on film, shown at
the Machine-Raum Biennale for Video Art
and Digital Culture, the deduction of the
term “media“ reflects the coincidential
relationship between borderline affects
and difference itself. On the one hand
there is always some psycho-pathological
impact associated with the phenomenon,
but on the other hand “the medium is the
message“ signifies being “in-between“ any
difference. The mediumistic talent crosses
these – superficially loose-seeming –
boundaries in special situations (e.g.
trances) to cope with the traumatic difference
in a more elaborate way than Joe
Public ever could bear. Meanwhile the
screen as revelation of this kind of difference
is just the frontend of the virtual
behaviour. Furthermore and according to
Ferdinand de Saussure, the media itself
introduces differences as a temporal relational
play between the imaginary significants.
Romeo Grünfelder and Dirck Möllmann
organized OKKULT, a program at the Hamburger
Kunsthalle to explore the inexplicable.
The research is to be continued. |
