PAUL GUZZARDO
Psychological Drawings.
“Corpse”. “Ghost”.
Activist praxis.
Litigation.
New media and performance.
Synoptic visions.
Aristotle said ‘depend on large views in the concrete’.
The city is a thinking machine.
Concern about dystopic tomorrow.
How we peer into the droplet.
City of destruction.
I’m not sleeping well these days.
Recursive urbanism.
Platforms of culture.
Platforms for responding to culture.
Change the discourse.
How do we respond to these technologies?
It’s so easy to fall into Spectacle.
Operating tableau.
The spatial consequences of digital convergence.
Cameras on the street.
Process of creation.
9/11. Memorial collages.
Pulling images from the web.
Powerful. Paralysing.
Rethinking memorial.
‘A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time’.
Software evangelists.
Not just us and them.
How do you read the data?
Surveillance vs. exhibitionism.
Hoover. Father of surveillance.
I was terrorised on my last trip home.
Idea frames.
A line in the sand of the post modern world.
The medium is the message,
The unawareness of the environment.
The invisibility of form.
Except by the artist.
Strategies of how to cope with new environments.
The coupling of art and science.
Existential threat of the elites.
Litigation of the design process.
Trying to turn the dial.
But the dial is broken.
What creatures are created by a media environment?
A need for pattern recognition.
Extensions. Machine. Who’s in control of the puppet?
Try to humanise what is coming.
What are the tools for investigating the droplet?