Re: Hollywood Hallucinations

Mmmm. This is getting bothersome.


Geert
http://nznl.com


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> From: Rhizome News <[email protected]>
> Date: 8 April 2006 9:48:41 AM
> To: Geert Dekkers <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Hollywood Hallucinations
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> mailia
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> Geert Dekkers <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> My macosx universal build flash player 8 won't play the movie on my
>> (intel) macbook. Any thoughts?
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>> Geert
>> http://nznl.com
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>> On 7/04/2006, at 8:09 PM, Rhizome News wrote:
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>>> April 7, 2006
>>> Hollywood Hallucinations
>>> In what is, perhaps, a pun on Microsoft's operating system,
>>> photographs of actual windows form the navigation system in
>>> Sarajevo-born artist Maja Bajevic's new web-based work. It's a
>>> fitting motif for the artist, who is known for her installation/
>>> performance pieces that focus on the soft boundaries between public
>>> and private spaces. Commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation,
>>> Bajevic's first new media work, 'I Wish I Was Born in a Hollywood
>>> Movie,' combines photographs of said windows, facades, and a few
>>> interiors taken in locales as diverse as Mexico City, Paris, and
>>> Venice. Clicking elements in each image opens another series of
>>> photos, creating an immersive labyrinth of atmospheric spaces.
>>> Despite the disparate sources of the images, Bajevic weaves them
>>> into a singular gloomy world that gives the impression of a
>>> brooding film noir. The result is doubly uncanny: on one hand the
>>> images of actual places seem literal and familiar, but on the
>>> other, the mise-en-scene evo! kes film cliches–as if someone is
>>> walking through a real space while hallucinating about the movies,
>>> adding a level of Hollywood stylization to the banal and everyday.
>>> Climb through the window, into her dimly-lit world, to see so for
>>> yourself. - Bill Hanley
>>> http://www.diaart.org/bajevic/
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