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THE WINDOW PROJECT – AULab 2024: SESSIONS 5 & 6

Pre-session texts: [13/06, 12:55] Emilio’s email: My idea is based more on video than live intervention, but of course this is only one of the possible proposals. I think of a meeting where we can present and see our videos well.  We decide on a theme. For example: Peace.  No words, just videos. We each

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VISUAL LANGUAGE: POLITICAL AND ETHICAL IMPACT – AULab 2024: SESSION 4

Pre-session text: [02/05, 21:14] Emilio’s email: How to be author and spectator at the same time? How can an author control his or her ego without limiting imagination and creativity? How to be a spectator by exceeding our expectations and trying to grasp something that does not belong to us, that is far from our

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AUTHOR / VIEWER – AULab 2024: SESSION 3

Pre-session text: [07/04, 15:30] Emilio’s document on drive: Following the thread that led us to investigate time and perception, we are going to consider the relationship between author and viewer. It is always a matter of time and perception, but also of sharing. Screening can determine a non geographical space of identification determined by two

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PERCEPTION, SENSES AND CONSCIOUSNESS – AULab 2024: SESSION 2

Pre-session text: [20/2, 15:30] Emilio’s email: Sorry for the raw material but I wanted start the process… Waiting for your observations, comments, modifications The theme of perception is directly linked to the one of time, so it is the continuation of the discussion we started in our first AULab session. My last comment before we

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INNER TIME VS CINEMATOGRAPHIC TIME – AULab 2024: SESSION 1

PRE-SESSION TEXT (The following is the exchange-conversation that Emilio, Camilo and Marlene (The Ecoversities Audiovisual Lab (AuLab) facilitators) had by email and whatsapp threads, as an initial input and example for the 1st session, that happened on Wednesday February 14th 2024) [2/9, 17:59] Emilio’s email: We have prepared some inputs for reflecting about some aspects

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Ecoversities Turtle Island Regional Gathering | Atlan Center Cascadia July 2024

An audiovisual memory from the first Turtle Island Regional Gathering of Ecoversities hosted at Atlan Center, July 2024 A midsummer gathering of education heretics, story weavers, sacred clowns, seed planters, & many other human and more-than-human friends. The Atlan Center and the forests of Cascadia welcomed us to sleep among the trees, under the apricot

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University of Community Development – Balochistan

Balochistan is amongst one of the most drought-prone regions in the world, where a change in weather patterns due to climate change has only exacerbated the problem. In the first episode, Safdar Hussain, the co-director of the University of Community Development, tells us of an ‘eco-friendly campus’ that has been set up to show people

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AUTOREFERENZIALE – Emilio Fantin on Art and Logic

This video documents a foray into a logic class to present from an artist’s perspective. The presence of an artist in such a context means that a link between art and logic has already been achieved. In the past, I have tried to bridge these two different worlds that are so far apart, but what

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Centro Amazanga

Centro Amazanga is a natural sanctuary in the tropical jungle of Ecuador in the province of Napo. It is a place of connection with and learning from nature. We have dedicated our hearts to the conservation of traditional knowledges, to the native communities (kichwa) and to the tropical jungle. The principal purpose of Amazanga (which in kichwa mythology

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What my grandma left me/ Ce mi-a rămas de la bunica

More than ten years ago I was on my way to become a chemical engineer, studying at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania. But then my grandmother died and her death radically changed my path in life: that’s when I finally started to live according to my own values. “What grandma left me” is my story

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