[Nettime-nl] Kraft - Let's Go!

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

From: officeR@ubermorgen.com

A while ago we made a rather adventurous trip to the Karoo desert in  
South Africa. The whole project was inspired by the TV-Show Lie to me,  
dealing with Microexpressions and fueled by the global fight about  
fracking & theoretical astrophysics.

Microexpressions are involuntary facial expression. The only possible  
way to hide microexpressions is by taking valium or injecting botox.  
Microexpressions express the seven universal emotions: disgust, anger,  
fear, sadness, happiness, surprise, and contempt. They are very brief  
in duration, lasting only 1/25 to 1/999,999 of a second.

After visiting a remote place called Sutherland we investigated  
Shell's intention to frack up the desert by analyzing microexpressions  
in infrastructure and landscapes, we went to see and calculate stars  
at the SAAO (South African Astronomical Observatory) and subsequently  
created an installation for our solo show at the Goethe Institut in  
Johannesburg, larger than life gif-animations and a broad collection  
of research material to be browsed & zoomed into while sitting in  
former Apartheid school-benches drained in blood & sweat from hundreds  
of students.

Only the gif-animated pixel is absolute and universal. The pixel does  
not move or change, it is an illusion, it can not abuse botox or  
valium and there is not a whole lot of information and certainly there  
is no depth of information available. The pixel is the past. The pixel  
is like a star in the universe.

Vienna, The Hague, Johnnesburg, October 31, 2012

More info http://leeeeeeets-go.nl

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Kraft - Let's Go! is part III of our Kraft Series - http://kraft-series.com 
 - and preceeds part IV, our upcoming show School of Energy at 3331  
Tokyo.



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