Re: <documenta X><blast> Visual Commodity/Kernel
Philippe Codognet (Philippe.Codognet@inria.fr)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:33:24 +0200
> Several years ago in Vienna was organized the exhibition wich provided
> for the viewers totaly different experience with the screen of Vision,
> the experience of blindness. In the darkness of the exhibition visitors
> lost their ability to be guided by eyes. They could orientate themselves
> only by means of common knowlege about various sounds and tactile
> experiences. They literally became membranes.
> Guarded by Golems of Con-sciousness visitors nevertheless sliped
> through the 'plane' projection of Ca-voir to the spiral space of the ear.
> (Olessia)
Also Gary Hill's installation currently shown in Munster at the
"Skulptur Projet 97"
is an interesting experiment related to darkness/blindness.
But we should give the original credits of darkness as the radical end
of retinal experience to our dear Guy Debord in his first movie in 57 or 58.
Could it be also interpreted as the true cyberscreen gaze of a turned-off
monitor ?
Philippe