Word: surrealisme
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Which other artists did he resemble? Not many, it turns out. Miro, in brief flashes. You could think of Westermann's strand of buckeye Surrealism and make him out to be a wood-butchering cousin of Joseph Cornell's, except that he didn't have Cornell's haunted preciousness, his...
Few experiences rank as high on the surrealism meter as being asked to judge a robot dog contest. In following the cyber-pooch in question - AIBO, or Artificial Intelligence 'Bot - for two years now, I've seen Sony's high-end consumer toy go from a $2,500 limited-edition...
The play then launches into a scene where two onlookers are watching their friend get beat up by a mean-looking guy in a leather jacket. Though this mix of incongruity and surrealism creates confusion, it does not detract from the piece, but rather intrigues the audience.
The intricately structured screenplay by novelist Guillermo Arriaga keeps reverting, ever more intimately and horrifically, to that crash, not merely showing it as the major figures in three intertwined stories experience it but also letting us see their lives prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates...
That was in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now it is 2001. The changes are in our nervous system now, reworking the pathways by which narratives find their way in. Surrealism? Shock edits? Every rock video uses that stuff. But the people we profile in this month's chapter of Innovators...