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Phantom Ride senses the boundaries of the landscape-image. With a simple rearranging algorithm, the image production-chain (camera-computer-screen) stops with representing and starts presenting a new reality. By applying a perspective change not with the camera but in the data-file itself a new sensibility to the awareness of space, shape and motion in the landscape-image develops…

Representational realism, related to indirect realism, is a philosophical concept, broadly equivalent to the accepted view of perception in natural science. Unfortunately, the meaning of the theory is dependent on the user’s interpretation of words like ‘perceive’, ‘reality’ etc. such that in the longstanding debate between representational (indirect) and naive (direct) realists each side will…

Direct realism, also known as naïve realism or Common Sense Realism, is a theory of perception that claims that the senses provide us with direct awareness of the external world. In contrast to this direct awareness, indirect realism and representationalism claim that we are directly aware only of internal representations of the external world. And…

    Martens subjects are the normal cast of characters in every war; heavily armed soldiers on border patrol, civilians lining up for food, civilians trying to get on with it, civilians suffering before their destroyed homes and lives, refugees, but also all manner of NGO employees with their food programmes and journalists with their…

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Fall – Patrick Jolley. 16mm. 2008 Tedium breeds its own reverie. Here becomes like there becomes like could be anywhere. This forms a coincidence with the generic: Repetitions erode sense of place and make buildings seem less substantial. The logic of these displacements causes things to come adrift. Little houses sink and burn. Furniture smashes…

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