Super-8 Graffiti
Monday, June 20, 2011 07:03 AM
This 1979 super-8 film, Ism Ism, set to the music of the New York Dolls (on vinyl), was recently found and restored by New York's Anthology Film Archives. It was shot in the vertiginous wildstyle of the time and shows the unique transforming collages graffiti artists perpetrated on ads in New York City and its subway system in the mid-to-late '70s, bless their little hearts. Manuel De Landa, who shot this jaunty horror film, is the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland; a lecturer at the Canisius College in Buffalo; a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia; and an adjunct professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn. He has a BFA from New York's School of Visual Arts, is the author of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002), and A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006). His work focuses on the theories of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and modern science, self-organizing matter, artificial life and intelligence, economics, architecture, chaos theory, history of science, nonlinear dynamics, and cellular automata. (t/y Louis)
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