Following text interprets the affective space of Mika Taanila’s record
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Lectio Præcursoria Picture 1. Collagerator In 2000 I finished my master of arts final work Collagerator. It was a CD-ROM multimedia work which created collages, complete with a layered sound collage and the possibility to print the collages. The users selected images for three different layers from predefined image banks, pressed the return key and saw a collage of those...
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The Research Pavilion, hosted by the University of the Arts Helsinki, is or
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Hörst du das Neue, Herr, dröhnen und beben?   (Master do you hear the New, droning and throbbing?)   Rilke, The Sonnets to Orpheus   To leave one’s mark on the pages of history: yes, I did it, you did something, they’re doing this and that; a special kind of presence that does not merely settle with what is being given, but might even change...
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As with all things interesting and engrossing, time is the enemy. It stutters and stops, withholds, races, stretches— until a three-day conference feels like a monumental hill traversed on a single-speed bike, as well as a mere blip in time. The 2019 10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, with its 252 attendees, 31 panels, and 3 keynote speakers, was held in Zurich,...
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