[spectre] videophilosophy by Maurizio Lazzarato in Cologne

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Videophilosophie       Symposium and  Videoscreenings   9.  11. November
2001 at April in Parking  Meters, Weidengasse 24-26, 50668 K=F6ln and at the
K=F6lner  Filmhaus, Maybachstra=DFe 111, 50670 K=F6ln   Entry fee:  Per day:=
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10,- All three days: DM 25,- Single entry: DM 5,-   The book
"Videophilosophie"  by the Italian theorist Maurizio Lazzarato will be
published this fall by  b_books Berlin (www.bbooksz.de). Lazzarato lives
and works in  Paris and has published books in Europe, Brazil and the US.
(e.g., Immaterial  Labor and Radical Thought in Italy - A potential
politics, University  of Minesota Press). In Videophilosophie Lazzarato
demonstrates that new  electronic or digital technologies do not actually
simulate or double reality;  rather, video and computers imitate the
functions of perception: a new system of  synthezising duration and the
affective intensity. Image processing as a  technology operates with
specific mechanism that at the same time define the  process of
subjectivation. In this vein, video (camera and editing) are  interpreted
as a technical system that simulates the neurological function of  memory.
Staging an imaginary dialogue between the philosopher Henri Bergson and
the video artist Nam June Paik Videophilosophie analyzes the function of
digital technologies as a "crystallization", a kind of synthesis of  time.
Based on these mediaesthetic analyses as well as contemporary French and
Italian political theory Lazzarato traces an ontological shift in
contemporary  economy from post-fordism to the economy of immaterial
labour.    April in Parking Meters has invited  Jem Cohen, Francisco Ruiz
de Infante, Carlos Nader, Hito Steyerl, Angela  Melitopoulos, Minimal Club,
Irit Batsry and Christoph Keller to show their  videos in the screening
room of the K=F6lner Filmhaus (Maybachstr.111) and to  discuss their concept=
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of working with video in relation to the ideas advanced  in
videophilosophy. The video works of these artists reveal a specific
connection exploring live and moving image production, self-perception of
thinking and memory, the video technology and artistic working methods.
Video as  a medium of time, duration, and memory relates to generative
aspects of  narration. The possibilities of image processing point to a
different conception  of a more fluid, nomadic or 'multiple' subject. =20
Most of those experimental, feature  length videos have received awards at
media festivals throughout Europe. They  represent a coming digital cinema
and a new era of image and sound  production.   During this three day
meeting  Lazzarato will give a talk divided into three intervals, each
followed by  informal presentations of the invited artists. In Parking
Meters, an alternative  gallery space, a round table discussion will take
place every day. The  discussion is open to the public. Wine and snacks
will be served. The  discussions will be recorded on tape. =20
Videophilosophie  Program   Friday, November 9,  2001   11.00  14.00 h
Symposium # 1: at  April in Parking Meters, Weidengasse 24-26 Welcoming,
introduction of Maurizio  Lazzarato: Henri Bergsons ontology of time and
the texts of the  videoartist Nam June Paik.   Videoscreenings at  the
K=F6lner Filmhaus, Maybachstr. 111 15.00 h Wolves  (Francisco Ruiz de
Infante, 92 min, 1995) 17.00 h Lost Book  Found (Jem Cohen, 35 min, 1996) =
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Saturday, November 10,  2001   11.00  16.00 h Symposium # 2: at  April in
Parking Meters, Weidengasse 24-26   -Maurizio Lazzarato: Bergson/Deleuze
(crystallazition of time), Walter Benjamin (labour and perception), Dziga
Vertov  (movement of the Kinoki), immaterial labour  Angela Melitopoulos:
Video, memory  and time: conzeption of the video Passing Drama Hito
Steyerl: Ones and Zeros:  Feminism, economy of information, war. =20
Videoscreenings at  the K=F6lner Filmhaus, Maybachstr. 111 19.00 h b_books
Berlin and the Minimal Club presents Videophilosophie  a book by Maurizio
Lazzarato  Theoretisches Fernsehen (b_books and the Minimal  Club) Videos
and  lecture     >  20.30 h The Empty  Center (Hito Steyerl, 61 min, 1997)
22.00 h Passing Drama  (Angela Melitopoulos, 66 min, 1999) Sunday, November
11,  2001   11.00-14.00 h Symposium # 3:  at April in Parking  Meters,
Weidengasse 24-26:  Maurizio Lazzarato: Thinking in  durations as an
experience of defining all semiotics of subjectivity as  synthesis of time
beyond seperation of body and spirit. >  Videoscreenings at  the K=F6lner
=46ilmhaus, Maybachstr. 111                      15.00 h Videos by Carlos
Nader:                      Trovada, 17min, 1995                   =20
Carlos Nader, 16 min, 1998                      Concep=E7=E3o, 17min 2001
                     Portait of a Serial Kisser, 29 min, 1992       17.00 h
Leaving the Old  Ruin (Irit Batsry, 34 min, 1990)   This event is kindly
supported by  Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse D=FCsseldorf, M7 book store
and the  K=F6lner Filmhaus. Information:    april in parking meters  contact
: Angela  Melitopoulos amelit@khm.de Lichtstr.46 50825 Cologne phone:
Angela Melitopoulos 0221  541735, Anja Dorn 0221 3100239, Alice Koegel 0221
2409080   April is a society for the support of the arts and  culture.The
membership fee is 15.-Euro for 3 months or 50  Euro for one year. =20
Curatorial and editorial board of "April in Parking  Meters":  Anja Dorn,
Gerald Echterhoff, Stephan Gripp, Marc Hartmann,  Olaf Karnik, Alice
Koegel, Angela Melitopoulos.  Curator of Videophilosophy: Angela
Melitopoulos