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HI,

I want to thank to everybody for all support, comments and critics on my first documentary, all of them were and are welcome. (¡muchas gracias!, vielen Dank!)
If you could not be with me during the première and still want to watch the film, I publish here a link to its on-line version, it is the same but in a medium-resolution for a good streaming. The largest file is about 23MB and the smallest around 8MB. I hope you do enjoy it, and I’ll be looking forward to reading your opinions about it.

Watch Sproutbau documentary

Recently I was invited to show my recent work on the: “Muestra Monográfica de Media Art” in the Festival Internacional de la Imagen, I’m proud to say that Sproutbau documentary was selected for the show an it was screened in the Modern Art Museum of Medellín. As well, it was selected to be screened in a event called “Curaduría en nuevos medios”, an international seminar organised by: Espacio Fundación Telefónica de Buenos Aires Argentina, this event is going to happen in Buenos Aires. Here a complete list of all selected works in Colombia.

I want to inaugurate a new section on my blog. This idea come up since A. Clarke passed away, as a manner to share with everyone interested on, one of my little passions: Science fiction.

As starting point I chose one short story written by Clarke: The nine billion names of God written in 1953, which in 1954 won the Hugo award in the category of Best Short story, this story is about a company that sells a computer to a group of Tibetan monks, they use this machine to speed up their holy task: compiling and listing all the possible names of God and by doing so fulfil the cosmic fate of mankind.

The story begins when Dr. Wagner is refining the details of a computer’s sale to a lama from the monastery, then the story moves to the Tibet shortly before the machine finishes its task: to print out all nine billion names of God.

Here an excerpt:

“Call it ritual, if you like, but it’s a fundamental part of our belief. All the many names of the Supreme Being — God, Jehovah, Allah, and so on — they are only man-made labels. There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere among all the possible combinations of letters, which can occur, are what one may call the real names of God. By systematic permutation of letters, we have been trying to list them all.”

With an exciting and typical Clarke’s end is a highly recommend short story, an on-line version can be read here.

I published the following post on sound projects’ blog, some months ago. Even though the time has passed I would like to share with all of you this short playlist. The context of this post had to do with, by that time, the recent death of one of the most influential German composers in the XX century: Karlheinz Stockhausen.

A small playlist I did to complement my previous contribution to this blog, Karlheinz Stockhausen, his contemporaries ( Webern, Boulez, Varèse), and students (Kraftwerk, Can, Hassell). I hope you do enjoy it.

Dear Reader,

Next Saturday 12th of April in Café Kurzschluss, I have the première of a short documentary film, I did during the last 7 months.

Though I’ve been working in digital media for some years, this is my first important video production and therefore my first première. I’m proud, happy and excited to share with all of you this achievement, I’ll be glad to see some of you among the audience.Sproutmovie Documentary film consists of 10 independent short videos united by a interface in DVD format to be navigated and screened in any decided order. It is aimed at giving a view of the atmosphere and sort of projects developed during last summer, in August, on the outskirts of Bremen, in a building near to be torn down. The project was called Sproutbau and here you can follow a thorough information about it: Sproutbau

Date: 12th of April
Time: 8 PM
Address: Lahnstraße 16, Bremen Neustadt: (Yahoo! Map and Google Map)

Yours sincerely

Ricardo.

Ayer en la mañana muy temprano por intermedio de mi buen amigo Hugo me enteré del fallecimiento de Arthur C. Clarke.

Uno de los más influyentes escritores de ciencia ficción dura y una de las figuras que más me han inspirado y cuyos escritos, ideas y libros de divulgación científica hicieron parte de mi niñez en la biblioteca de mis padres. Entre sus trabajos el más recordado tal vez sea 2001: Una odisea del espacio que en 1968 fue llevada al cine por Stanley Kubrick.

Para recordar esa última charla entre HAL 9000 y Bowman:

HAL: I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

HAL: I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you.
Dave Bowman: Yes, I’d like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
HAL: It’s called “Daisy.”

[sings while slowing down]
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you. It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage. But you’ll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.

Hace un par de años por fin pude leer otra de sus obras cumbre, se trató de la tercera parte de la saga Rama, El jardín de Rama, ahora me queda la tarea de conseguir las otra tres partes de esta saga, también quiero recomendarla a aquellos interesados en la literatura de ciencia ficción, a Clarke también le debemos el desarrollo del sistema de comunicación de los satélites (1945), en fin a los 90 años murió una de las grandes figuras de la ciencia, la tecnología y la ficción hecha realidad.

Un humilde tributo mio a 2001 aquí

Q.E.P.D

The most exiting exhibition, I watched in the ZKM: Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves.

Our last day, our last hours where just dedicated to this exhibition. A big and impressive overview about the new proposals and waves in contemporary art production in Asia. It was specially focused on the far east, or at least the section I visited. I recommend giving a glance to official web-site, it has a complete documentation in photos, video and essays. It is worth the time. Nam Junk Paik, one of the most influential figures in art during last 30 years, was present there through a homage done by Kyung-Ho LEE, you might identify it in my gallery. A great impression let to me a work I titled as Papiroflexia/McDonald’s, I remembered my good friend Cesar Galan. I want to highlight “CNN” piece, too. Very appropriate for this media-informational times.

Well, I share here 10 of my photos. I hope you enjoy them, and share with me your comments.

Photos

Autumn, November, Karlsruhe, digital art. ZKM.One of the most well known centres in digital media research and contemporary art in Europe. About this city I can’t write anything for I wasn’t really there just a small walk at night and just to reach a restaurant and our hostel. We visited this media-museum centre as part of one lecture. Two days, two tours, two exiting overviews about contemporary praxis on art.

So, I let you with a picture of mine on Flick_ka a project of ZKM, I hope you might find me. The first gallery of two is dedicated to digital approaches in the history of art within the last 40 years, just a here a couple of pics, saved by my good friend Javier after my unfortunately hard disk accident.

Photos
and a short video

Finalmente algo de tiempo para terminar la entrada final sobre Amsterdam, 16 fotos de detalles, de momentos cotidianos y de la imagen con la que me quede de Amsterdam. En mi memoria quedará el color ocre-naranja de sus fachadas y su cielo siempre gris. Sus casas angostas y puentes cortos.Para esta última entrada escogí como personaje principal a Rembrandt, la foto de la entrada es una escultura del pintor en el distrito Rembrandtplein al frente de la escultura está una representación 3D de uno de sus más famosos trabajos Night Watch (De Nachtwacht), obra con una gran influencia en estudios de luz, posición y tiempo. En la galería encontraran más fotos de este arreglo.

Las fotos

HI, within the program for the so-called Hochschultage at the University of arts Bremen, there is space for short, and experimental videos produced by students during the latest time.In the program for this winter term, two clips in which I participated were selected to be screened. This is an invitation for an open and free event this weekend on the Speicher XI, not just for screening but also exhibitions in design and art. I hope to meet some of you there.

However, I offer here the two selected clips, for those who cannot accompany us.A whip, L is a composition on time through pictures, of a devastating and sorrowful moment. We decided to use there a fragment of a poem by Emily Dickinson, whose poetry I personally like, in order to give atmosphere to our desaturated, blinking and unstable photos.Starflyer, one of three different visions of Ischa freimarkt Bremen and Shostakovich music, in this case our assignment was to combine images of this event in Bremen with a certain music. Our piece is rhythm based.

If you want to watch these videos in a better quality (recommended), then follow their divX versions on:

StarFlyer

A Whip, L

Enjoy’em.

Finalmente y felizmente mi ejemplar del libro: El medio es el diseño audiovisual, llegó!
Aquí un par de fotos del ejemplar, en la segunda está la página en la que se publicó mi artículo: Bit-bang Objeto Digital, que está en la página 57, en el primer capítulo: Diseño, ciencia y artes electrónicas.

El medio es el diseño audiovisual. Jorge La Ferla, Compilador. — Editorial Universidad de Caldas, 2007. 702p.
ISBN: 978-958-8319-05-6

A modo de resumen:

El objetivo del texto es desarrollar una reflexión acerca del objeto, como intención humana, dentro de contextos digitales y las transformaciones que el objeto ha sufrido en su significado, en su manera de ser concebido y las relaciones que establece, dentro de estos contextos, tanto con otros objetos como con las personas; recogiendo para ello las impresiones y teorías de diversos autores en los campos de la filosofía, la estética, la tecnología y el diseño.

Breve reseña histórica:

El artículo vió la luz por primera vez, en la cátedra Manuel Ancizar de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, en el año 2000. Luego de varias revisiones llegó a la versión que fue publicada en el libro, y ha servido como conferencia en tres oportunidades: las olimpiadas de diseño (Manizales 2004), El festival internacional de la imagen (Manizales 2005), y Diseño con sentido, el mes del diseño (Cali-Palmira 2005).

Un especial agradecimiento a Jorge La Ferla y Felipe Cesar Londoño, por su apoyo.