-Empyre- in January: Mechanisms of Exposure

-Empyre- for January 2003: Mechanisms of Exposure: Cyberpresence and the
Poetics of Spatialized Film



-Empyre- welcomes in the new year with two European performance and sound
artists, Maria Tjader-Knight of Finland and David Knight of the UK to
discuss their work, "Mechanisms of Exposure".

Based in Brussels and Helsinki, Maria Tjader-Knight and David Knight create
film like spatializations in cd rom and installation. The sheer enormity of
the disparity between the scale of content expressible by code versus the
scale of content experientially and cognitively recognized through human
contextual and analog processing makes us long for perfect code, that is to
say, a complete unified field ideology and syntax. Beneath the nostalgia for
coherence and developmental controls one feels the cold winds of the
totalitarian past, when in the mid twentieth century another obsession with
the topdown comprehensive code of development - comprehensive planning and
development - a unified field- as the mode through which architectonics,
place, and human presence locate and are determined led to much violence.
Humans and their sense of the local and particular themselves became the
OEsublime