Interior landscapes, Carol Inez Charney
Etymologies
Installation artworks by United Visual Artists is a collection of dot-matrix displays that generate ever changing writings algorithmically:
These canvases of geometric shape are illuminated by transitioning text. Algorithmically driven, the text on indistinguishable origin recalculates, reduces and expands, motivated by but not a direct reflection of human instruction. We witness the presence of a co-contributor who while deconstructing the source text, allegorically deconstructs the concept of independent authorship and more importantly, independent readership. This process of deconstruction questions the role of authenticity and the nature of appropriation in the Information Age. Employing the post-structuralist rationale that literary sources lie impregnated with reference, inherently a product of their own authorial context, the text is reduced to pure patterns which in turn, incite the viewer to rebuild order. The words of Roland Barthes resound “the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author” as we engage in a process of inference, seeking out logic and poetry, while simultaneously submitting to the complex, mechanical mind. The unique shape of each canvas serves to highlight how our experience is not only shaped by the content, but by the environment in which it is viewed.
高梁 (by *dapple dapple)
Barcelona, October 2009, Spain
photography by cityhopper2
Two container ships are docked at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. From 1962 until 2002 it was the world’s busiest port, but was overtaken first by the the port in Singapore and later by the facility in Shanghai, China. Container ships such as these can weigh up to 300,000 tons and extend up to 1,200 feet (366 meters).
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www.dailyoverview.comAnd they keep getting bigger
Not for long i think, Maersk is laying up triple E’s and others are scrapping plans for 20k+ TEU vessels.
There are still lots of them on the stocks, but as you said the larger boxboats are getting laid up, and those that aren’t are running with a lot of empty space.
It’s not just containers either, there are a lot of tankers lying idle at the moment.
@aber-flyingtiger why? With so many junk being produced in China. Has the world found a different approach in maritime transport?
They haven’t found an alternative, there’s just less demand for ships with that much capacity so for the moment many of the larger boxboats aren’t wanted.
Hum, so like what’s happening with jumbo jets.
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