From: "Prof. Philip Pocock" <pocock@zkm.

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Date: July 27, 2008 6:29:15 PM GMT+02:00
To: pocock@zkm.de
Cc: philip.pocock@gmail.com
Subject: aland prologue 6pm
Reply-To: pocock@zkm.de
alan&#8706; prologue
federico: and for the white wall of spain!
alan&#8706;er: do not say i have to see the bulls!
moses: he said that the water had been changing.
muhammad: water received then another form, superadded to the water.
federico: o white wall of the full moon.
alan&#8706;er: do not say i have to see them. pictures look at pictures!
muhammad: water is the ancient cause producing them.
moses: those who assume two spheres in their turn are again reduced to water.
alan&#8706;er: a desert island emerges undersea spewing images.
moses: he said that the water had been changed.
federico: like the white wall of my hand like an off-white wax lemon.
muhammad: time was one of them to eat.
alan&#8706;er: a desert island mirrors its picturesque flood offshore.
moses: this is taken from the time of the sense of touch.
muhammad: and with his fingers, he smelled nothing.
federico: what needle of pain in my hands.
alan&#8706;er: at least let me climb, please, up to the water.
federico: free me from the olive groves, sunken sky and a hand of sand.
muhammad: in inanimate bodies there is no existence?
moses: this is the result of the world.
alan&#8706;er: a sun without rays spills on the glass of the moment.
muhammad: right up against this first receptacle of the beginning.

muhammad: and so whatever in the world was supereminently bountiful and

exceedingly gracious.

muhammad: the hand of the necessarily self-existent being and not just as
well as dead.

until he understood those sports very well.

alan&#8706;er:

muhammad: and from this body ad infinitum which is next to me.

alan&#8706;er: to the south of my eyes I saw her hands.

moses: the water of the ancient peoples when they mourn are angry or are
similarly affected.

muhammad: not that the world stands in its place, it would move in orbit
as the rest.
alan&#8706;er: what a coincidence.
-alan&#8706;ers - philip pocock | yunjun lee | alex wenger | julian finn |
jayoung bang | daniel burckhardt | linus stolz | lorenz schwarz | markus
zielke

federico - feder&#8730;&#8800;co garc&#8730;&#8800;a lorca *selected

poems* (synthespian)
moses - moses maimonides *the guide for the perplexed* (recoded)
muhammad - muhammad ibn tufail *alive, son of awake* (simulated)
alan&#8706; aka academy al an&#8706;aluz is a collaborative crystal-image
(c) deleuze magical mosaical media tour that begins with the act of
looking and never ends. synthespian dialogue based on the philosophy,
poetry and prose of 11th and 20th c. andalucian protagonists - moses
maimonides (the guide for the perplexed), muhammad ibn tufail (alive, son
of awake!) and federico garca lorca (selected poems) - acts as a semantic
engine, spewing words that find pictures from flickr,from anywhere. blind
to its own narrative or documentary content, such a seed image searches
for images from andalucian bloggers and user-generated content portals
that are similar in palette and pattern, corresponding and coincidental
with an abstract informatic aesthetic. the resulting set of images
andalucian in origin for the most part, hover between a contemporary
imageability and virtual isolation and this investigation presents a
meta-narrative that emanates the spocic regmie of contemporary uncertainty
in visual realm. this never-ending stream of collages or mashups from
virtual andaluca are looked at, spied on, magnified, observed by 12 scope
objects, spotting scope, telescope and webcam hybrid objects, that capture
fragments of one screen and produce mashups for others, so that what
usually is the end of an art work (c) duchamp that is looking,
spectating, is reversed and is the beginning, or before the beginning.

bios:
jayoung bang holds a literature degree from inhu college seoul, a masters
in aesthetics from the Sorbonne and a masters in communication from the
karlsruhe academy of art and design.
Jayoung Bang is currently artist-in-residence at zkm. Holding degrees in
literature, communication and aesthetics (MA), her research interests
include user visualization and web2 aesthetics
Jayoung Bang is currently artist-in-residence at zkm. Her research
interests include user visualization and web2 aesthetics.
yunjun lee is a korean-born europe-based painter, sculpture and media
artist. he is a founding member of raining animals art collective.
julian finn is a student at hochschule karlsruhe, cultural activist an
artist focussing on free culture and the borders of culture, technology
and society.
alex wenger, computer scientist and father of five, creates media art
objects and displays, and restores historical electronic art works.

linus stolz co-architected zkm island in second life while studying art
and design at hochschule pforzheim.
lorenz schwarz and markus zielke are both media art students at the
karlsruhe academy of art and design.

special thanks to GMS Display Sytems, Villingen, Germany.