A Play of Books
Computational Object in a World of Data
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PROLOGUE
DRAMA
From Singapore With Love
written by Petra Tomljanovic, Miro Roman
published in Oris magazine/95
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“Interviewer: The greatest invention of this century must be…?
Lee Kuan Yew: The air-conditioner, for me.” (Kuan Yew 2008)
In Singapore, everything simply works. The air …
A Quantum City or How to Talk about Cities?
review by Petra Tomljanovic
City. Divided tensions, expectations; new images, mastery of orientation skills, the jitters, the fear of the unknown. A new city, your city, for a couple of hours, couple of days, infinite, unfathomable, foreign, extensive, dirty, creative, …
Globally Independent
Self-sustainability, Sanctions, Islam, Iran
May 30, 2013 – June 5, 2013. Iran, Tehran
Iran most definitely is not what the Western media show us. No big surprise. What is astonishing, however, is the easiness with which distorted media images generate …
Potemkin Metropolis I will Learn to Love You
11/05/2012 – 11/06/2012, Singapore
Singapore is a country / a city of no contradictions. Everything is working, and everyone is happy. Somehow it reminded me on ”Logan’s Run” – sf movie from 1967. Here are some narratives and facts surrounding …
Midnight in Thailand
25.03.2013 – 30.03.2013. Ko Phi Phi Islands, Thailand
By: Petra Tomljanovic
vizkultura.hr
I’m on Thailand in search of the mythic Beach! My grandpa’s Volvo Penta boat is transformed into a long-tail boat, a local Thai sea vehicle powered by oversized …
Java – two cars, two smartphones and no reservations
22.02.2013. – 26.02.2013. Java, Indonesia
Jakarta/Bogor/Gunung Salak/Pelabuhan Ratu/Bayah/Serang
Java, a continuous agglomeration (a city?), a ”habitat” of different landscapes, an island with more than 130 million people, area of 1/3 of the size of Japan. Java is one of the …
Dystopia, Utopia, Past and Present
Mao, if you had only been relaxed…
20/12/2013 – 03/01/2014 Taiwan
By: Petra Tomljanović, Miro Roman
Three hours ago our plane landed in Taiwan. A new country, a new city, and we are on a train leaving Taipei. Everything is entirely new and unknown, …
Urban Diptych
bifold reading of the generic city through photographic mosaics
Photographic diptych by Panagiotis Kotsidas and Miro Roman is a part of three week exhibition-event in Singapore organized by The Mill x WeJungle and thematized with concepts of Destruction and Rebirth.…