FLAT OUT: Interworld
Michael Filimowicz
VideoSeptember 22 - October 8, 2011
The flux of experience is typically characterized by artists and thinkers as an undifferentiated continuum of sensuous particulars, haphazard, unorganized, a “raw stuff” to be ordered and structured by our sense organs and the cognitive structures of the mind.
Michael Filimowicz’ video is named after Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the ‘interworld’ and seeks to counter the traditional notion of flux. It is based on a phenomenological investigation in which flux is explored not as a random sequence of unstructured percepts, but rather as a concatenation of rhythms.
About the Artist
Michael Filimowicz is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher working at the overlapping boundaries of media forms. He is founder of the Cinesonika International Film Festival and Conference of Sound Design, and Editor of The Soundtrack academic journal. His research area can be broadly construed as the phenomenology of mediation and informational semiotics. He is also Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs in the university’s Lifelong Learning unit.
FLAT OUT is a bi-weekly rotating video series curated by Nicole Bebout. For the series, new works by emerging and experimental artists from across the globe are displayed on a LCD screen mounted at the entrance of AC Institute.