Psychick TV

2003-01-22 07:18:09 I'm taking a break from VJCentral and VJForums but will still post here irregularly the stuff I find which are more or less related to VJing, mainly for my personal records (I have this bad habit of losing anything which is not web-based) although it may interest others. I'm not sure it's the way Dave wanted this site to be used but oh well ;) I thought about setting up some kind of blog like greymatter on videKaos.com but finally decided this one was good enough at the moment (if only I could change the ugly font for the entries titles!) I found the (copylefted) text below quite interesting in regard to our televised reality and how we could possibly change/alter this reality. From http://chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/topy/greybook.html People are constantly being titillated through advertisements and other forms ov propaganda by a subtle use ov subliminal seduction and because ov thee one-sided nature ov thee affair thee out coum is inevitably frustration. When pleasures course is inhibited it has thee characteristic ov turning into unpleasure. When in spite ov continual high excitation a person is not able to experience final gratification a fear eventually develops, not only ov thee final gratification but also ov thee excitation which precedes it. This will effectively divorce thee individual from his or her true feelings and instincts. A long exposure to Televisualized Realty will have thee effect ov underlining peoples notions about their own inadequacy and on an unconscious level they will have to deal with second-hand traumas and complexes, a task made all thee more difficult for thee fact that although thee pseudo-experiences achieve their relevance by being linked up with thee individuals own experiences, that link is mostly superficial and difficult to trace. Television has not yet been recognized as man's latest sensory apparatus. Thee manipulation and thee use made ov thee Sexual Instinct through visual media, such as Television and films has turned a large portion ov people into unknowing fetishists: they are investing sexual energy in images and objects without knowing it and are thus unable to reclaim and make use ov it, - as thee magickal use ov a fetish dictates. An essentially magickal act has becoum vampiritic and one-sided. This process breeds a host ov 'Scopophiliacs', people who obtain simulated sexual gratification through thee process ov watching, where thee illusion ov active doing is obtained by turning an other person into an object which is subjected to a controlling gaze. Scopophilia is by definition one ov thee component instincts ov sexuality which exists as drives independently ov thee erotogenic zones. Indulging in scopophiliac activity, and people nowadays hardly seem to have any other choice, can in thee long run result in an unconscious acceptance ov thee separation between mind and body, sexuality being denied its natural course and thee fragmented world view which keeps people from drawing thee right conclusions and seeking active release from their circumstances is reinforced. Over thee last thirty years TV has been thee greatest single factor in thee control ov thee attitudes ov thee people. Even if it was unintentional, which seems unlikely, thee prevailing view ov thee world as seen by thee writers, producers and controllers ov TV companies has becoum thee accepted 'norm', to which thee viewer inevitably compares himself. Ov course thee world presented on TV bears little or no resemblance to reality, and as a consequence thee viewer is left, not only with a feeling ov failure, but also ov boredom with this 'perfect' world on thee screen. Even in thee area ov news and documentary those interests which shape and control TV everywhere assume that 'the public' cannot cope with thee whole truth. It is our intention to revers this trend. We have no desire to ape or emulate thee slick perfection and sterile technical quality ov traditional professional television, perfect focus is not perfect content. We deal in implications, exactness ov flow and image from a subliminal psychick point ov view. It is only by doing this that one can hope to show life as it really is. All media systems devised by man enshrine his own limitations ov development and fulfillment, his inner conflicts, his private fears ov mortality, yet all media, including TV are nothing but thee decisions ov men. Psychick TV will be activist, a positive statement ov faith in thee capacity ov man. To cause things hidden in thee dark to appear and to take thee dark away from them. Psychick TV is not intended to be a replacement for conventional programming, but rather thee first step towards a de-programming, without regard for thee preoccupations ov commercial TV, redundant assumptions about entertainment and value. At Psychic TV we accept and exploit thee way TV is used by our generation, as raw material to be used and manipulated by thee viewer. Dense enough to be interesting over and over yet without punchlines or obvious focal points to becoum familiar and bored with. Thee Transmissions we are now producing are intended to be viewed at night, between thee hours ov midnight and six am. We will not be giving any advance indication ov thee specific content ov thee Transmissions - rarely are people aware in advance ov any momentous occurrence in their lives - but everything in thee recordings will reflect thee way thee world really is. If they seem to be emphasizing those aspects ov life normally suppressed or censored as subversive, contentious, disturbing or too sexual, it is because that suppression is a deliberate attempt to limit thee knowledge ov thee individual. It is our belief that truth and information about anything and everything must be made available in every way possible, if human history is to survive, progress or have any meaning whatsoever.

mu

2002-12-30 10:23:35 Almost Invisible Art Theory

Some more links

2002-12-06 13:14:27 I wanted to upload some pictures of recent stuff I have made but it seems my capture card doesn't work anymore. Oh well :( Anyway here are some interesting pages I visited recently, more or less VJ-related. Technoshamanism http://www.cesnur.org/2001/london2001/green.htm http://www.hyperreal.org/raves/spirit/technoshamanism.html Artists Pages http://we.got.net/~krish/tls/intro.html http://www.paradise2012.com/ http://www.futuresoundoflondon.com Fractals/Chaos http://www.fractalwisdom.com/FractalWisdom/ http://www.fractovia.org/what/what_ing1.html http://www.chaosdancer.com http://order.ph.utexas.edu/chaos/ Fractal Generators http://www.eclectasy.com/Fractal-Explorer http://www.cygnus-software.com http://www.chaospro.de

Some random links

2002-09-22 06:08:19 http://www.sozra.com/cymatics.html - video and painting on music http://www.promoonly.com/polondon/ - DVD mix for DJs? http://www.angelfire.com/ca/X8/Video.html - ambient video (no download) http://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/ - weird videos, culture jam http://www.dandelion.org/videos/source.asp - "videos for mixing" http://www.post-videoart.com - experimental video http://www.railroadvideos.net - video tapes of railroad (!) http://bekow.free.fr/vroom/index_eng.htm - crazy video!

Off for 8-9 days

2002-08-19 04:49:19 Leaving to the Boom Festival today, will finally take the bus from Lyon at 11pm, I'm looking forward! According to the weather forecast, the first few days will be extremely HOT! :D Unfortunately won't meet pixylight there but we'll probably cross paths sooner or later... If the VJCentral server goes down, just wait for me to come back ;)

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