Everything you read is hollow and and is an attempt to fool you. If the text you read is fragmented and reassembled, it will still make as much sense as it does now - which is nothing at all. Because we understand the situation, the meaning that we want to convey is configured for different configurations already. You can read the same text in multiple arrangements and it still makes sense. When we blur and shuffle the text that you are reading, you could either get confused or you get…
Lenses change the character of the optical experience they offer. There is a deliberate addition of noise to the simple window that a piece of glass is. This noise may magnify, may compress, may selectively highlight or maybe just create different kinds of focal points of attention. Lenses are used more often to see than to read. If you can see sharply you can read. The other way round is true as well, if you can't see you definitely can't read. If there was a way to read without seeing the…
Letting light pass, letting lines of sight penetrate the surface and re-emerge at the other end without noise or distortion is transparency. In a different system of ethics and social dynamics, transparency also means letting internal compulsions and vulnerabilities show. It also means to not sculpt and curate one's public persona. To let things stand where they stand. In the environment we live in, transparency is almost universally acknowledged as a positive value. Transparency is always…
Media have needed to be transparent for a long time. But now there is a request floating in the air, a request to have media letting its dim light shine. With this request getting processed and the luminosity in our general scenography increasing with the aggregated spotlight of all the dim lights of all the media, we need to understand this light more. Back when the spoken word or rhetoric was all that there was, the people yearned to have a common flux for them to let go of their nightmares.…
Seeing was supposed to be a facility, a sense, a privilege. It wasn't supposed to be an action. Actions can be performed casually, as casually as moving a limb, moving an arm up and down. They do not need to be processed or cued or packaged within performance anxiety, as something that needs preparation. Vision is today posing as an action, inviting people at large to engage in passionate casual play. Forgetting that by doing so, it weakens the claims of its own advertisements. For many years…
