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Immanence
in the Pixel: Traditional Cultural Origins of Math and Technology
An
evening of film video and web screenings curated by Laura
U. Marks
Presented
Saturday, May 11th at 8 pm
Islam and Eugenics
Hakim Bey and Mongrel,
U.K., 2001, web, 5:00
"Why not introduce into 'Western Culture' the virus of
a critique of the tyranny of the image - an iconoclastic breath
from the desert?" Islam and Eugenics mocks the immediacy
of information on the web as real and fake web sites-the International
Monetary Fund, "www.taliban.org"-shimmy across the
screen then disappear permanently. The value of iconoclasm,
as Islam intended it, is that it invites you to contemplate
the infinite.
http://www.mongrelx.org/Project/Natural/Hakim/
Hakim
Bey - Biography
Hakim
Bey, a self-described "anarcho-sufi," generously distributes
concepts like the "temporary autonomous zone" and
"poetic terrorism" through books like The Temporary
Autonomous Zone and online. An American, he lived for many years
in Iran in the 1970s, became a member of the Moorish Orthodox
Church of America, and has otherwise steeped himself in a radical
hybrid of Islam.
Mongrel
Mongrel
is "a mixed bunch of people, machines and intelligences
working to celebrate the methods of London street culture. We
make socially engaged culture, which sometimes means making
art, sometimes software, sometimes setting up workshops, or
helping other mongrels to set things up." Core members
are Matsuko Yokokoji, Mervin Jarman, Richard Pierre-Davis and
Harwood. www.mongrelx.org |
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