Babel Fiche

Dave Griffiths is a filmmaker who thinks seriously about history, and who has clearly been affected by Flusser’s thought.  He is the kind of practitioner I’m sure Flusser meant by the term Einbildner (I translated it “envisioner”).  The term is developed in Into the Universe of Technical Images, where it forms a counterpoint to “artist”. The difference refers, as I understand it, to one between documentation and projection, between the sense of “capturing” the meaning of what already exists in the world (artists), and projecting a meaning on to a world with no inherent meaning (envisioners).  Griffiths is just finishing a work called Babel Fiche, the centerpiece of an exhibition that will open at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester, UK, on 10 August.  I am hoping to provide the gallery with some thought-provoking text.