Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix)
DJRABBI remixes Debord's "
Society of the Spectacle" as
a multimedia installation:
Using hyperimprovisational methods and techniques to invent a provocative style of digital poetics, the artists encounter the immediate presence of terror and fear in both political and media culture. Offering neither a spectacular critique of the spectacle nor an apology for their own tendencies toward spectacularly accidental juxtapositions, the artists behind the SOS remix host a polysensory potlatch of conceptual and material resistance against the official, separatist amnesia of historical practice.
RealTime magazine (according to DJRABBI's site) says the DVD is
a furious collage of black and white images (and sudden flarings of colour) and theory-saturated subtitles that you can only grasp at as they roll by, occasionally recognise, and go with the odd beauty of their flow. It's appropriately playful ("everything is fucked but fun"), pulsing, pop-ish and engrossing-the hypertext crowd stoked on Godard (who is, of course, invoked)
[via
notes from somewhere bizzare]
Posted by johndan at August 17, 2004 12:07 PM
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