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==Katarina Boeming – ''I am telling you a story, home 1996-2006''== | ==Katarina Boeming – ''I am telling you a story, home 1996-2006''== | ||
==Matthias Breuer – ''Reconstructing the Truth''== | ==Matthias Breuer – ''Reconstructing the Truth''== | ||
[[Image:Reconstructing the Truth.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Reconstructing the Truth]] | |||
Nowadays reality is a highly constructed body made up of many different ideas, desires and influences. The biggest reality producing machine, the media with all its different distribution channels, confronts us with a huge moving colourful mass made of countless pictures and sounds. The question about whether what we see is real or not is neither asked nor encouraged. The catchphrase of modernity is see it and believe it, a critical discourse is never held. While in ancient times, following Plato's ideas, reality to some is the dancing of shadows on a cave wall, for us it is the play of many differently coloured pixels on flat surfaces. Screens are our viewfinders to the world. Our perception is created by artificial interfaces. The connection between reality and man is created by copper wires and silicon plates. A very fragile umbilical cord highly dependent on those who feed it thus holding the ultimate control. | |||
Two movies dealing about the question of what is real, [[wikipedia:The Matrix|''The Matrix'']] (1999) by the Wachowski brothers and [[wikipedia:Welt am Draht|''World on Wires'']] (1973, orig. title ''Welt am Draht'') by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, are left to the electronic brain of a computer to create, with its countless circuits instructed by a programmer, a reality partly constructed partly real to explore reality and its constructed nature. The outcome is a formal critique of (mass-)media's reality. | |||
[[GMU:Breaking_the_Timeline/projects/Reconstructing_the_truth|Full documentation]] | |||
==Olivier Delrieu-Schulze – ''Underactuation''== | ==Olivier Delrieu-Schulze – ''Underactuation''== | ||
==Angelica Piedrahita Delgado – ''VideoRed''== | ==Angelica Piedrahita Delgado – ''VideoRed''== |
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