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Theo Ligthart:
Terminator... About the End as a Beginning
Book presentation and
installation by Theo Ligthart
18.7.2003 at 7 pm
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The unscrewing of the Terminator's skull
In the center of both of the successful Hollywood productions:
Terminator and Terminator 2 - Judgement Day, lies self-generation via
media. An irreversible timeline is overcome; past, present and future
are interchangeable. History becomes a-human. In the martial constitution
of the action genre, personified time concepts fight their battle.
By means of (film) analysis such deposits are sounded out. The technological
basis of such concepts is uncovered and so the movement of ideologization
is foiled. Nothing less than the unscrewing of the skull of the Terminator.
The book "Terminator... About the End as a Beginning" is presented
together with an object. The exhibited object is the replica of a model
which, in the movie Terminator 2, is used for the developement of intelligent
neural processors and therefore allows the machines to take over in the
future. In its manifestation it remains, in turn, an object of minimal
art. Thirty black cubes are arranged on two levels. Three rows, each
with five cubes, form one level. Cylindrical connections link the cubes
to each other and at the same time create a space between the black dice.
The external form of this object should mediate the complexity of the
internal. The geometric structure of the model becomes the icon of artificial
intelligence. This object is the model of a neural processor, is the
symbol for the future world-ruling spirit, is a minimalistic sculpture,
is ...
Theo Ligthart, artist, film director and author, was
born 1965 in the Netherlands.
He currently lives and works
in Berlin.
Further presentation:
Vienna
25.7. 2003 7 pm
Kunsthalle Wien
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
The book:
Theo Ligthart
Terminator ...
Über das Ende als Anfang
Passagen Film
Wien 2003
EUR 14,90 / sfr 23,30
ISBN 3-85165-607-5
Further Information about the book at:
Heidi Selbach Presse PASSAGEN Verlag
[t]: +43.1.513 14 01.11
selbach@verlagsbuero.at
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