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VIDEO-DRONE: Sound in Bill Viola’s Early WorksMedia art is – in most cases – considered to be a visual form. Yet, even video art, visual by definition, has its roots in sound. Not only some of the most important video artist (including one of the pioneers – Nam June Paik) were influenced by John Cage. Some of them were also trained as musicians, composers or thoereticians of music. Bill Viola, especially...
The Listening Eye. Radio Works of Juan MuñozIn this article the author tries to analyze the radio works of Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz in the context of relations between image and voice. How do these co-relations affect one another and change the way look and hear? The text begins by trying to connect Muñoz’s radio works with his sculptures (images) through the analogy of the ventriloquist dummy,...
Nowoczesność jako doświadczenie. Analizy kulturoznawcze, red. Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska, Ryszard Nycz, Barbara Giza, Wydawnictwo SWPS „Academica”, Warszawa 2008, 188 ss.
Dlaczego tak się dzieje? Bo ludzie „nie są spontanicznie skorzy do pracy”, a „namięt- ności ludzkie nie są podatne na siłę argumentów”2. Trzeba więc zmuszać ludzi do two- rzenia społeczeństwa. Chciałoby się rzec: trzeba ich siłą skłaniać ku ludzkości, mając na względzie to, że przynajmniej od czasów Arystotelesa założenie, iż istoty ludzkie odróżnia się od zwierząt i aniołów po tym, że mogą istnieć...
Recenzja:Grzegorz Godlewski, Słowo – pismo – sztuka słowa. Perspektywy antropologiczne, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2008, 440 ss., Seria: „Communicare”Ekrany piśmienności. O przyjemnościach tekstu w epoce nowych mediów, red. naukowa Andrzej Gwóźdź, Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, Warszawa 2008, 348 ss., Seria: „Cyberkultura – Internet – społeczeństwo”
Dwie rozprawy Przyszłość pewnego złudzenia (1927) i Kultura jako źródło cierpień (1930) umożliwiają z pewnością takie odczytanie Freuda, jakie zaproponował Zygmunt Bauman1. Antagonizm zasady przyjemności i zasady rzeczywistości zdaje się odpowiadać na pierwszy rzut oka konfliktowi między pragnieniem wolności a potrzebą bezpieczeń- stwa. Zgodnie z tym odczytaniem kultura narzuca jednostce system...
RecenzjaBlanka Brzozowska, Spadkobiercy flâneura. Spacer jako twórczość kulturowa – współczesne reprezentacje, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2009, 227 ss.
How to do Things with Sounds? Music as a Mode of Communication from the Performance Studies PerspectiveThe main task of the article is to consider musical education of children as an idea of developing communicational skills, comparable to the linguistic competences. The subject of an analysis in this case is an educational project “Music and play”, which has developed for over than decade in the...
We wstępie do książki Płynny lęk Zygmunt Bauman stwierdza, że wbrew optymistycznym zapewnieniom XX w., że człowiek wkrótce pozbędzie się wszystkich nękających go przez wieki trosk i obaw, wciąż żyjemy w epoce lęków. Wbrew oszałamiającemu rozwo- jowi nauki, która jest o krok od osiągnięcia wymarzonej doskonałości życia ludzkiego zarówno w jego aspektach zewnętrznych (technika), jak i wewnętrznych...
Music and Literature Inspirations in Films by Derek Jarman and by Sally PotterBritish film historians argues that both Derek Jarman and Sally Potter belong to the group of “excluded artists” constituted by either queer or feminist avant-garde authors. They have been consistently expressing themselves in such an original form, that can be called “the hybrid film”, combining performance art, video,...
Audiosphere in the Contemporary Culture. Attempt of bringing closer NotionThe vast array of modern recording and processing equipment available nowadays allows us to obtain and employ most subtle sounds. In musical composition it is now possible to use anything which emits sound, thus making us more sensitive to the diversity of audio phenomena never recognized before. Many modern artists exploit...
Music and Drama. Together or Separately?The traditional methods of research into relationship between the music and the literature (also the drama) concern place of the music in literary work (in form of the sounds and the shape of the composition including the musical genres) as well as the music as subject.This kind of studies conducted by philologists doesn’t include new musical forms, being far...
Disturbances in Art Communication and Noise Possibilities in Visual Aspect of Human LifeIn the text I make an approach to an aesthetics theory in which a main category is noise. For me this category is a synonym to a disturbance in process of human communication. My investigation is based on series of examples taken from history of art of last two centuries. In this text I scrutinize a field of image...
Knowledge about culture – as an unfinished projectSince 1972 there is a unique faculty in Poland, dedicated to learning about culture. It was created by professor Stanisław Pietraszko (1928–2010) at the University of Wrocław, and now it is present on over forty Polish universities together with relevant scientific institutions (which publish i.a. this journal). Nevertheless, the aim of Professor’s...
Composing the World while Listening – Sound as CommunicationIn this article, the notion of acoustic communication is being examined. The author propose the thesis that shift toward meditational qualities of sound environments as well as the main strategies of minimalist aesthetics (with the example of John Cage being the most exemplary) can be seen as the radical reconfiguration of traditional communication...
Towards Philosophy of Media: Media as BiotechnosystemMedia introduce a parallelism of the process of experience and substitute biologically, linguistically and culturally coded mediation with one of network type. Connectionist narrations program our ongoing experience, freeing it from the control of language. Technical non-lingustic connections free the human being of humanity. We face a technical...
Universalism of Communication in an Electronic EnvironmentThis article concerns communication that is transferred from the physical world into an electronic environment. In the physical world non-verbal communication, which is limited in an electronic environment, is sometimes important. This leads to the following question: when non-verbal means in mediated communication are reduced, is there a reduction...
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