Dimitar Nikolov's Blog

The movie has a different perspectives, from one side it shows us what is the process of investigation for every art project. It shows how deep in the society, politic, economy thesedays some art projects can be found. The ethical questions that are problems or phenomenon in the society.

Other perspective of the movie is a documentation of an art project. It shows us the stages of the process of research, tests and creation of a project. Sometimes the project involves non standard methods of investigation for the final result like photography mixed with biotechnological installations.
The movie really clear shows us how today’s art projects are not only pure art but they could collaborate experts from the scientific world to achieve its goals.

One of the perspectives of the movie shows us how todays culture is becoming in a big monster and how one projects can be misunderstand from the part of the society because of a single incident. Incident which is connected with the private life of one of the project developers. How one brilliant project can be destroyed from the same society for whom the project was developed to help. The same government, military and industry which are chosen by the people, by us, often do not do nothing good to the society. (5:48 minute of the film)

Something about the media
How one brilliant project can be leaded in a very different direction of its major one – to alert the society for a very big problem. How the media like TV or internet are involved in the project giving it opportunity in one moment and in the second taking its chances of be successful project. It comes to show us what is the power of the media and how harmful can be if we make a wrong conclusions. (26:50 minute)

And finally the movie by itself is a media which was spread though the world by other media — the Internet, to proof the first statement of the artist involved in that art project and to spread the truth out. Today Internet is the most powerful media which combine in herself all of the medias before in one big family. Depends on us how we create it and how we use it.

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Referências:
Strange Culture (2007)
Tilda Swinton, Peter Coyote, Thomas Jay Ryan, Josh Kornbluth e Steve Kurtz. Música: The Residents