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TUESDAY, JUNE 14TH – 7:30 PM • $10
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Spectacle is pleased to welcome filmmaker and media philosopher Mitra Azar for a one-night-only presentation investigating how processes of gaze disembodiment/virtualization related to new technologies of vision can be addressed as an emerging political-aesthetic battlefield – marking new regimes of visibility and, in parallel, new regimes of truth.
Azar deploys a post-phenomenological approach to connect the use of POV in cinema to: mobile technologies documenting uprisings, Google gaze circuit (Google-based technologies of vision such as Google Maps, Google Car, Google360, Google Glass), drone technologies, virtual reality devices and neural network for robotic visions. His research investigates these processes as they pertain to subjectifation, de-subjectifation and trans-individuation, envisioning their social, aesthetic and political consequences.
MITRA AZAR is a self-described eclectic schizo-nomadic video-squatter and “ARTthropologist” with a background in aesthetic philosophy. He admits to be haunted by images and by the relational-performative-philosophical aspect of doing them. The idea of borders as fluid, flexible, amorphous entities – and the political role of art and digital technologies within the frame of an aesthetic of crisis and of mass events – have been the framework of his practice-based research.