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pneuma_software
cooperation with Charlotte Desaga
video
digital betacam
2001
The world appears as scattered grains, more and more evenly spread by the winds of entropy, from which random dunes could form, and man appears to be that very wind, that consciously gathers up those scattered grains to arrange them in improbable clods.
VILÈM FLUSSER, 1990
In ancient Greece Pneuma was perceived as an ethereal and airy substance, which represented the universal principle of life. Christianity introduced the idea of godly breath, which could animate the world and give life and spirit to men, in order to become one with the Holy Spirit. Even nowadays human existence, in the context of the humanistic tradition, is considered to be a dualistic battle between entropy, which grinds down the chaotic world into pieces, and the human spirit, which adheres to principles of order, and takes those pieces and rearranges them into structures.
In opposition to humanistic ideas, our postmodern creations consist of simple surfaces. According to Flusser, there are no backgrounds to illuminate, and the winds of our human spirit still endow the world with meaning, but not any longer as a projector, but as a knot in the tissue of the screen.
So this video itself is pure surface. It's all about observing what happens and how it happens, it has no backgrounds to be understood, it is a surface that we have processed.
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