Thinking as you watch, is different from thinking about what you watch.

“visual philosophy” is a term/concept suggested by Japanese video artist Masayuki Kawai. The term is in contradiction. Because thinking require language but seeing not. One must “do philosophy” by thinking with help of words/language.

But this contradiction may be a key to deepen video aesthetic. There is link between vision and language. Some prehistoric studies claim our present language can be traced back to pictorial language and mythologem.

Can I “do philosophy” in mythologic way? Or can we turn the “visual” into something like be a pictorial language and phonetic alphabet? This will be a topic of tomorrow.

date: Saturday, May 10th 2008
time: 6:00-7:30 pm
fee: free
place: Apple Store Ginza　3F theater
(3-5-12 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 03-5159-8200)
http://www.apple.com/jp/retail/ginza/map/index2.html
*84seets. No booking necessary.

Organized: ref lab.
http://www.ref-lab.com
Supported: Harvest Firm Inc.