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          salon: Jordan Crandall, Thursday, 30 May 2002, 20.00 hrs | 
| Podewil, 
          Klosterstr.68-70, Berlin-Mitte, tickets: EUR 5 / 4 'Trigger'  In recent years, 
          the New York artist Jordan Crandall has become well-known for his interactive 
          and video installations which are dominated by discourses of violence, 
          control and psychological tension. Military and surveillance technologies 
          play an important role in Crandall's work which investigates their cultural 
          and psychological impact.  Crandall will present background notes, storyboards, and structural diagrams for his new project 'Trigger.' He will use these materials as tools for looking at larger cultural issues, particularly those that are fueled by technologies of combat and control. Emphasizing the new formats of representation that arise within contemporary perceptual battlefields, particularly in the context of the new global 'war on terror,' he will discuss his aesthetic strategies, positioning them within broader issues of militarization. As eye, camera, and weapon combine in new morphologies of battle, Crandall will emphasize the 'status of the seer' and the changing constitution of the human as it plays out along spectrums of the manned and unmanned. In contrast to 
          more purely technological or economic approaches, Crandall adopts a 
          military lexicon, but his work is couched within this vocabulary in 
          a creative and manipulative way. It points at the flows between militarization 
          and the organization of self, tool, and culture, as these play out in 
          a contemporary landscape of power. It deploys new imaging technologies 
          and control formats that are writ large in the military, in order to 
          implicate emerging agencies of seeing, whether in terms of domestic, 
          individual, or self policing. It moves toward a new literacy of control 
          systems, one that taps into the psychological, interpersonal, and symbolic 
          dimensions of "armed" conflict and the underrecognized dynamics of invasion 
          and defense at the level of individuals. It seeks to understand how 
          these phenomena are filtered into new logics of representation.  In cooperation 
          with Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, which is showing Crandall's 
          exhibition 'Trigger Project' (until 9 June). [www.edith-russ-haus.de] 
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          salon: Jordan Crandall, Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2002, 20.00 Uhr | 
| Podewil, 
          Klosterstr.68-70, Berlin-Mitte, Eintritt: EUR 5 / 4 'Trigger'  Der New Yorker 
          Künstler Jordan Crandall hat sich in den letzten Jahren vor allem durch 
          seine interaktiven und Video-Installationen einen Namen gemacht, die 
          von Diskursen über Gewalt, Kontrolle und psychologische Spannung bestimmt 
          sind. Eine dominierende Rolle in Crandalls Arbeit spielen Militär- und 
          Überwachungstechnologien, die auf ihre kulturelle und psychologische 
          Wirkung hin untersucht werden. Crandall zeigt exemplarische Video-Arbeiten 
          und diskutiert seine ästhetischen Strategien im Kontext des aktuellen, 
          nicht-erklärten globalen Krieges.  In Kooperation 
          mit dem Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, das bis zum 9. Juni 
          Crandalls Ausstellung 'Trigger Project' zeigt. [www.edith-russ-haus.de]  |