Month: February 2013

Title thesis:

Procession of the Damned

Life near the event horizon of a postmodern black hole


Subject:

“Sensitivity for the expressiveness of images, and knowledge of literature are strengths of Barbara that come together beautifully in her thesis. The thesis can be read both as a text and picture essay. The text intelligently circles around the first signs of a possible global, literary and philosophical apocalypse. She then isolates poor images from the global digital B-universe feeding them with pleasure to the hungry black hole, black of ink… Admirable thesis, tip of an iceberg … “ [Q.S. Serafijn]


Link to thesis (PDF)

‘When you are young, you always expect the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.’

I have carried this quote in the back of my mind for quite some time now, while trying to make physical sense of our technological and virtual world, and groping my way through the materials and objects scattered around the studio and other people’s backyards.

Title thesis:

Procession of the Damned

Life near the event horizon of a postmodern black hole


Subject:

“Sensitivity for the expressiveness of images, and knowledge of literature are strengths of Barbara that come together beautifully in her thesis. The thesis can be read both as a text and picture essay. The text intelligently circles around the first signs of a possible global, literary and philosophical apocalypse. She then isolates poor images from the global digital B-universe feeding them with pleasure to the hungry black hole, black of ink… Admirable thesis, tip of an iceberg … “ [Q.S. Serafijn]


Link to thesis (PDF)

‘When you are young, you always expect the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.’

I have carried this quote in the back of my mind for quite some time now, while trying to make physical sense of our technological and virtual world, and groping my way through the materials and objects scattered around the studio and other people’s backyards.