[KineJapan] Manei in Minecraft

[David Blair]

hi, revered KineJapan list,

here is something odd for you,

a recreation of Manei [the Japanese colonial studio in Shinkyo, 
Manchuria, recently demolished] from photographs and some memories,
made in the sandbox 3-d world of Minecraft [a sort of online lego game, 
popular at the moment]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkQqlGO-760

Not procedural, those are all honest clicks, one after the other, brick 
by brick....

this was made for an exposition I have at the Museum of Contemporary Art 
in Antwerp, Belgium,
which circles around Manei in various ways...

the other building is the Museum, frame in a frame, and there is also a 
minecraft copy of a steam powered praxinoscope, etc.just to id what you 
see if you look.

just to be complete, here is a description of the exhibition:

On the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, MuHKA, is a 
banner for a 4-dimensional movie: "The Telepathic Place: from the Making 
of The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES. This movie takes 
place in 5 rooms, and combines 22 screens, each with an hour of video, 
placed within an active pre- and post-cinema film studio, where are in 
play various useful movie objects such as Magic Lanterns, the famous 
Lumiere Cinematographe #12, Manchurian Film Projectors imported from 
Germany, and various instruments used by narrators and directors of the 
Telepathic Cinema…. Including a 15 meter static moving panorama, 75 
telepathic paintings, and other amusements associated with the 
production of the silent sound film. Here the audience is told and makes 
the movie at the same time, while wandering in space for 10 minutes or 
two hours… one flexible advantage of a 4 dimensional presentation.

If your geography, time, and interest will permit you, then I would to 
invite you to visit the exhibiton of this film, which is playing all 
summer [June 7 until Sept 7 2013], 6 days a week, indoors, during 
daylight hours.

This exhibition is a project by David Blair, curated by Edwin Carels 
(KASK/HoGent), and made in cooperation with MuHKA, using the Museum's 
Vrielynck collection of historical cinema apparatus, which the fortunate 
Mr. Vrielynck collected during his life as a Notary, and now, after that 
life, is a cultural property located in the city of Antwerp.

best,
David Blair




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