{"id":267,"date":"2012-10-31T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T07:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2016-10-09T13:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T13:43:22","slug":"babel-fiche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Babel Fiche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/STILL29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-269\" title=\"STILL29\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/STILL29-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/STILL29-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/STILL29-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/STILL29.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave Griffiths is a filmmaker who thinks seriously about history, and who has clearly been affected by Flusser&#8217;s thought.\u00a0 He is the kind of practitioner I&#8217;m sure Flusser meant by the term <em>Einbildner<\/em> (I translated it &#8220;envisioner&#8221;).\u00a0 The term is developed in <em>Into the Universe of Technical Images<\/em>, where it forms a counterpoint to &#8220;artist&#8221;. The difference refers, as I understand it, to one between documentation and projection, between the sense of &#8220;capturing&#8221; the meaning of what already exists in the world (artists), and projecting a meaning on to a world with no inherent meaning (envisioners).\u00a0 Griffiths is just finishing a work called <em>Babel Fiche<\/em>, the centerpiece of an exhibition that will open at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester, UK, on 10 August.\u00a0 I am hoping to provide the gallery with some thought-provoking text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Griffiths is a filmmaker who thinks seriously about history, and who has clearly been affected by Flusser&#8217;s thought.\u00a0 He is the kind of practitioner I&#8217;m sure Flusser meant by the term Einbildner (I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[74,73,71,75,72,7],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity","tag-babel-fiche","tag-castlefield-gallery","tag-dave-griffiths","tag-envisioner","tag-film","tag-flusser"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}