"There are two big wrongs in the world – one is money and the other is fame"
"Celebrity is created solely from capitalist causes – an attempt to extract huge sums of money from – well, a human being, who – you know – represents tremendous beauty or other qualities that we in Western culture regard as status. But we are all equal, and it is modern bullying when famous people are pursued by crowds."
A conversation with Nick Knight.
INVISIBLE SPACES
“I have begun to photograph landscapes, which might seem far afield from my previous work. I think it’s a reaction to the fact that people today are so overly conscious about presenting themselves for the camera that a certain kind of innocence – the mystery that I was once so drawn to – is not so readily apparent.”
FOTO: Ken Schles, from the series Invisible City / Night Walk 1983-1989, 2014
traumatised humanity
“I’m interested in the human condition – or rather the edge of it – the peripheral areas of both the individual and the landscape. That which civilisation has violated, its cracks – all that, which lies behind our stereotypes, like an ever-present reminder that we are mere mortals”
FOTO: Nadav Kander from the series: Bodies 6 Women. 1 Man , 2013 in Pan & The Dream #1, 2018
EXPOSED REPRESSIONS
“I am interested in concrete memories only to a certain degree; I am way more interested in the manipulation of those memories. This is where imagination comes into play. How can you get to something else from a memory you have? I find that more interesting. There are however, some memories I have from the war, for example, that can be seen in some of my films. Very specific images that are fixed in my memory and I have tried to reconstruct in some of the films.” A conversation with Carlos Saura
in the borderlands of robotics
He deals in constant deconstruction of art, entertainment and technology. He is among the pioneers who developed the Burning Man phenomenon. Kal Spelletich is a robotics genius who commutes between Hollywood and Silicon Valley – and also the uncrowned king of t he hi-tech underground.
Who controls the technology controls the truth - A CONVERSATION WITH NOAM CHOMSKY
“If you are trying to convince a particular person about something – the more information you have about that person and their interests and vulnerabilities, the more possible you will succeed in convincing them,” says Noam Chomsky referring to Big Data and propaganda in a digital era.