The City of Fear (the short film)

Posted by virtualfirefly on May 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Fictions about invasion are already invasions. – k punk

Category CITY OF FEAR, HYBRID OBJECTS, MINI-RIOTING, PERIPHERAL WORLDS

Video Files Rioting

Posted by virtualfirefly on March 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Video files subvert control systems causing malfunction and suppuration. Boredom? Excess of data? Conspiracy? The most plausible hypothesis points towards a case of mini-rioting. It’s funny to see a surveillance camera puking. A device originally designed as a cleaning device, aiming at the production of controlled realities, goes dirty and out of control. Even within … Read more

Category CITY OF FEAR, MINI-RIOTING, PERIPHERAL WORLDS

Practice of Mini-Rioting

Posted by virtualfirefly on February 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

The practice of mini-rioting consists on the deployment of troops of mini-warriors. I started working with this idea last year when I was trying to establish contact with the City of Fear. The first troop I deployed was a troop of parachutists. The parachutists were loaded with the fiction of invasion; they are hybrid entities, … Read more

Category CITY OF FEAR, MINI-RIOTING, PERIPHERAL WORLDS

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    Olga carries practical and theoretical research in the field of media arts. She works as a co-editor with Furtherfield.org while she pursues a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths. Her research project looks into assemblages of sunlight, human bodies and machines. She is particularly interested on subtle modes of communication across bodies of radically different nature. She looks at the ways in which electronic circuits, computational systems, endocrine processes and neurological happenings intermingle. The tools she develops are speculations about the undercurrents of body communication.
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