A thunderous introduction by Film + Design called ‘Modern Worship’ shows a time-lapse video image of a dancing King of Pop impersonator in full glitterati, refracting the stage-lights in a multitude of sparkles and starbursts, while slo-mo moonwalking across the black nothingness. Cue the airplane. First the nose of the plane cuts through the left cadre of the projection,
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Stijnie Thuijs
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21 September 2011, 5:23 pm
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tags: Bernhard Rieder, culture, David Bohm, Deleuze, East, Eastern, Enfoldment, genealogy, google, Guattari, historical, history, image, Infinity, information, Islam, Islamic, Islamic art, Laura U. Marks, modern, parallels, pixels, quantum physics, West, Western
What are the parallels and relations between Islamic art and New Media art? That is the main question Laura U. Marks poses in her book ‘Enfoldment and Infinity. An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art’. The title of her book is just as alluring and bold as her topic. During the first two chapters her motivation of the…
