| DNA:
Watching a hair for hours doesn’t allow us to identify its
owner, even though
that hair includes much more information than any high-resolution
picture. It’s
nowpossible with a single strand of hair to reconstruct genetically
even the most
intimate details of a person. Knowing that a file as simple as “hair.zip”
has
embedded within it a forest of signs and codes that we cannot see
or read has
produced in us a new sense of myopia or illiteracy.
CNN: Watching the news for
months doesn’t allow us to identify the reality
behind an issue covered by the press. An infinite sequence of simultaneous,
precise, and live reports is not enough to understand the difference
between live
broadcasting and death, between democracy and business. We are condemned
to know more and understand less. This is not a contradictory process;
it’s
semiotic indigestion.
If something moves as fast as a bullet, it becomes invisible and
supersonic. If
something moves as slowly as a minute hand, it becomes still and
uninteresting.
Examining a ream of the best-quality white paper proves that it
is impossible to
find a single absolutely white, silent sheet in 500 examples.
Seeing two pages printed with the same image confirms there are
no two identi-
cal visual experiences. (Even McDonald’s has never cooked
two burgers of identi-
cal shape, color, taste, texture, temperature, and context.)
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Marco Maggi
recently had solo exhibitions at the Fifth Gwangju Biennial; the
VIII
Havana Biennial; the Sao Paulo Biennial; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art; Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Montevideo; the Centro Cultural
de Espana,
Montevideo; Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota; and the University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champagne. Recent group exhibitions include the Museum of
Fine Arts,
Boston; the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires; and the
Museo de
Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chile. In 2005, he was included
in “Drawing
From the Modern 1975-2005,” at the Museum of Modern Art, New
York.
* “Turner, Ted: (born 1938), US
broadcasting and sports executive, born in Cincinnati, Ohio; president
of
Atlanta Braves baseball team and chairman of the board of Atlanta
Hawks basketball team; head of Turner
Broadcasting System, Inc., whose properties include station WTBS
and news station CNN; bought over
3,000 movies to televise and received criticism for colorizing many
classics.” (Source: Britannica Student
Encyclopedia, 2002)
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