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<DIV ALIGN=center><B><FONT SIZE="6">Aluminium</FONT></B></DIV>
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<DIV ALIGN=center><FONT SIZE="2">Beauty, incorruptibility, lightness and abundance, the metal of the future</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV ALIGN=center><B>The Rest of Now, Manifesta7, Bolzano, Italy, July-November 2008</B></DIV>
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"Aluminium" is a futurist graphic book and film about the social history of aluminium. In 2009 it will be 100 years since Marinetti set out the Futurist manifesto in which advocated the consumption of metal bolts and engine oil to turn men into machines. Marinetti believed in speed, machines and violence, values that for him were epitomised in the recent invention of aluminium. Drawing on archival footage from the aluminium industry, Harwood derives algorithms from the Futurist Manifestos to create the books cells by recording only the differences between key video frames. Caption texts are gathered up and edited together by issue crawlers as they search across the Internet. "Aluminium" takes the futurist logic of the 20th Century and turns it back upon its self. <BR>
“We have been up all night, my mates and I, beneath the hum of the microwave transmitter, electricity piped in through high-voltage aluminium conductors. Transported here by motors, alloy rims with deep polished lips, fat pipes and chrome spinners, bright as our souls. Like our machines, we are ruled by the internal glow of electric hearts. Trampling underfoot, the earth, we wear down the heels of violent Chinese pirates: Nike-faking factories slaving along the Cambodian border, we have been discussing right up to the limits of our programming and scrawling across filthy keyboards to create these demented writings.” Filippo Rossi
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“The extraction of value from any material, place, thing or person, involves a process of refinement. During this process, the object in question will undergo a change in state, separating into at least two substances: an extract and a residue.<BR>
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Coffee beans and coffee grounds, coffee grounds and a coffee pot, a coffee pot and a cup of coffee, a cup of coffee and a shot of caffeine, a shot of caffeine and a slight spike of energy, a spike of energy and a decision, a decision and its consequences, the consequences and a fragment of history, a fragment of history and an aluminium factory, an aluminium factory and aluminium, aluminium and a coffee pot, a coffee pot and coffee grounds, and so on..." Raqs Media Collective <BR>
Aluminium was produced for The Rest of Now, Manifesta7 (Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 2008 ) Curated by Raqs Media Collective<BR>
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The film and book Aluminium are showing at Alumix building Bolzano/Bozen until November 2008 <BR>
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www.manifesta7.it<BR>
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For more information about the book see - <A HREF="http://www.grahamharwood.org/aluminium">www.grahamharwood.org/aluminium</A> or<TT> </TT><A HREF="mailto:emailcontact@grahamharwood.org">contact@grahamharwood.org</A>
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