Inquiries in visual memory no. 7 - October 2011

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Nov 1, 2011, 7:14:09 AM11/1/11

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Hey,

This is no. 7 release of projects in my »Inquiries in visual memory«.

This time two different projects are presented. The Release_Project about the exhibition of the iconic ‘Black Square’ painted by the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich – and the Discours_Project presenting an exhibition of Speaking Places.

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Bruno Ingemann

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The Release_Project [10]:
The Last Futurist Exhibition ‘0.10’, 1915 scrutinize the surface of everyday culture. This is an exhibition photograph showing the context and the design of the exhibition room where the famous suprematist black square is presented.
What does the room tell about the time of creation and exhibition?

http://www.visualmemory.dk/projects/r-p[10]/index.html

The fourth Discours_Project is the exhibition Speaking places, places speaking presented at a small exhibition room at the Roskilde University in relation to a research seminar dealing with gazes on the specific site of Paris trying to reveal more than the ordinary from a popular site.
The whole project had generated sixteen large photographs but for this exhibition, only seven of them were selected to present the variety of the basic idea namely what can be called Parisian or French? This quest for identity was contrasted to the photographic document of the 1950ties and the golden age of after-war epoch.

http://www.visualmemory.dk/projects/d-p[4]speaking_places/places_speaking.html

Inquiries in visual memory no 6 – April 2011

Discours_Project [2] – The Romani in the waste disposal site 1972

Discours_Project [3] - Drifting Sand - memory of three hundred years - a multi-screen interpretation

Inquiries in visual memory no 5 – October 2010:

Border_Project [6] – MoMa, New York 2010

Border_Project [7] – GeoCenter, Moens Klint, Denmark

Release_Project [9] – The Kitchen-Debate in Moscow 1959

Discours_Project [0] – Introduction

Discours_Project [1] – Painting Memory

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'Visual culture and performance design' (visper)

Communication Studies,

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As a researcher and associate professor of visual communication at Roskilde University, Denmark and as a designer and media artist in his own right, author Bruno Ingemann, PhD, also represents an intersection. A pioneer in Danish museology and in visitor reception studies, he co-edited the anthology New Danish Museology.

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Information Environments,

University of the Arts London

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University of Pittsburgh

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