Moving Layers - Contextual Video in Art and Architecture | Ladaga Manteiga - EGAR Lab

"Given the media saturation of our society, video is the ideal medium for the public sphere. The neophyte, at his first experiences of contemporary avant-garde artistic works, will find himself more at ease with video works, finding them more seductive than other expressive forms."

"Public Art strengthens the oscillation between ordinary object and work of art. And this oscillation, this constant movement between two spheres that are visually almost identical, surely constitutes one of the most difficult themes confronting contemporary art."

"Video brings public places to life and transforms them in a reflection of the unconscious. In a time in which magic seems to have been lost and a hyper-realistic media regime bombards our daily life and our consciousness, video’s challenge is to cling to its reneged spirit and awaken us from the torpor enveloping us."

"Welcome to an elastic world. In a cyberspace which – to quote Gibson of Neuromancer – resembles a 'consen- sual hallucination', that aims to single out 'that point in which the media flow together and encircle us'."

"Starting with the experiences of the avant-garde, the architect is one and the same with his new means of representation. Having freed his hands from the most important artistic tasks, he transforms himself into a sort of cyborg that moves its cinema eye in the physical reality of modern times."

"Just like a bricoleur, the creative process uses intellectual and technological instruments as though they were travel notes, jotted down by a metropolitan flâneur of the global era."