Very interesting article about the relationship of early radio and imaginations of the sea by Katja Rothe (now UdK Berlin), unfortunatelly in German. Here you can listen to an interview with Katja Rothe about the same topic at hör!spiel!art.mix in Bayern2, which was broadcasted on Friday, the 2nd of May 2014 – of course in German, too.
Deep reading and understanding – need paper?
Just came across this very interessting article in Wired about Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper. It argues, that especially the tactility of paper might play an important role for our understanding and comes to the conclusion: “ ‚There is something to deep reading and deep thinking that is worth making an effort to preserve.‘ Whether we need paper to do that remains to be seen. For now, though, there’s still plenty of life in those dead trees.“
The Notwist @ Circus Krone Munich
Just coming home from The Notwist Concert at Circus Krone in Munich, thinking of what Tomek Kolcynski said lately about J. S. Bach at the Sound Sorrounds Symposium: If you need a psychiatrist after having listend to an opera of Wagner, if listening to Bach feels like having the psychiatrist included, going to a Notwist concert is like having had a wonderful Shiatsu massage – maybe the best you can do to body and mind nowadays to keep them going.
Credit Foto: Janek Wiechers
Art under Mass Surveillance
„We may not abandon the place“ and „Never let them stop you from working“. These are the two most important advices, Julian Assange gave to the audience, when speaking via Skype from his room in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for one hour to the about 100 people at the Helmhaus in Zurich in the evening of the 8th of March 2014.
Julian Assange via Skype ath the 8th of March 2014 at the Helmhaus Zurich. Photo: Dominik Landwehr Migros-Kulturprozent
Sound Art & Sound Studies – International Seminar in Switzerland, Germany and France
Limits of Control
