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June 05, 2017 @ 17:13 CET
Dear Ivan,I imagine those lines in your images as an installation, as actual layers on the land below, an added context. Altering a site of trauma, a site with nothing left to see, by adding a past...
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Jun 13, 2017 @ 18:31 EST
Dear Anton,I’m staying in a rickety long-term occupancy hotel in Montreal, a room with walls painted too many times, a stink of tobacco, and obscure violence done to the electrical outlets. These...
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JUNE 22, 2017 @ 9:30 CET
Dear Ivan,The irony of the ruins that shall be preserved forever seems to be in stark contrast with the deeply engrained Japanese understanding of an impermanence of things, the circle of life, the...
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Jun 25, 2017 @ 19:14 EST
Dear Anton,Of commemoration strategies, the Ise shrine suggests an algorithmic approach. Create a code for us to reenact and embody, in the way of the pilgrimage or the ritual. The instructions are the...
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JUL 03, 2017 @ 11:59 CET
Dear Ivan,I just got home from driving along most of the Polish-Czech border, trying to find and photograph the blue skies above each of the ninety-five World War 2 concentration camps of Groß-Rosen....
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Jul 04, 2017 @ 11:56 EST
Dear Anton,I’m in rural Pennsylvania, sitting by a window in a fieldstone cottage, in a hollow deep in the woods, in the precise location where my father died, seven years ago to the day. I’ve not been...
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JUL 13, 2017 @ 14:01 CET
Dear Ivan,It seems like a stage has been set in our conversation, in much the same way as Berthold Brecht set the stage in the opera you mention. I’m reminded of the master of all stage setting,...
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Jul 23, 2017 @ 15:23 EST
Dear Anton,A few nights ago I was on a night ferry, crossing a shallow sound below a sky set with stars. The ferry navigated a narrow channel between sandbars and small islands, its way marked by red...
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JUL 30, 2017 @ 18:19 CET
Dear Ivan,Maybe sitting on a boat watching the shore is the correct distance and the correct perspective for things. Most often I find myself too close, wishing for a distance a little larger and a...
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Aug 16, 2017 @ 22:21 EST
Dear Anton,Whether we are in amusement parks contemplating imaginary cities and castles, or in the museums and memorial gardens that commemorate those who died in war, the aspects of our bodies are the...
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Jun 13, 2017 @ 18:31 EST
Dear Anton,I’m staying in a rickety long-term occupancy hotel in Montreal, in a room with walls painted too many times, the stink of tobacco, and obscure violence done to the electrical outlets. These...
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Jun 22, 2017 @ 9:30 CET
Dear Ivan,The irony of ruins that shall be preserved forever is in stark contrast with the deeply ingrained Japanese understanding of the impermanence of things, the circle of life, the passing of...
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Jun 25, 2017 @ 19:14 EST
Dear Anton,Of commemoration strategies, the Ise shrine suggests an algorithmic approach. Create a code for us to reenact and embody, in the way of the pilgrimage or the ritual. The instructions are the...
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Jul 03, 2017 @ 11:59 CET
Dear Ivan,I am just home from driving most of the Polish-Czech border, trying to find and photograph the blue skies above each of the 95 World War Two concentration camps of Groß-Rosen. The difference...
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Jul 04, 2017 @ 11:56 EST
Dear Anton,I’m in rural Pennsylvania, sitting by a window in a fieldstone cottage, in a hollow deep in the woods, in the precise location where my father died, seven years ago to the day. I’ve not been...
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Jul 13, 2017 @ 14:01 CET
Dear Ivan,It seems as if a stage has been set in our conversation. I’m reminded of the master of all stage setting, Charles Chaplin, and specifically The Gold Rush. Seldom has there been a more...
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Jul 23, 2017 @ 15:23 EST
Dear Anton,A few nights ago I was on a ferry, crossing a shallow sound below a sky set with stars. The ferry navigated a narrow channel between sandbars and small islands, its way marked by red and...
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Jul 30, 2017 @ 18:19 CET
Dear Ivan,Perhaps sitting on a boat and watching the shore is a better perspective. Often I find myself wishing for more distance and less speed.Sometimes I stand on the shore, look out to the sea and...
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Aug 16, 2017 @ 22:21 EST
Dear Anton,Whether we are in amusement parks visiting imaginary cities and castles, or in the museums and gardens that commemorate those who died in war, the carriage of our bodies is the same. We...
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A decade of tracking Russian online interference
Profile pictures from a large network of pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts. Image by Lawrence Alexander.With the F.B.I. indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in 2016 United States presidential...
View ArticleInto The Fold Of The True at MIT’s Open Doc Lab
Into the Fold of the True is the working title for investigations into archives of war and conflict at the Library of Congress, where I’ve been a fellow in digital studies in 2017-2018. This talk in...
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Government actions in Sri Lanka Easter bombings raise the question: Is social...
The Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, one of the sites of coordinated bombings that took place in the country on April 21. Photo by AKS.9955 via Wikimedia Commons.As the tragedy surrounding...
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Weapons of Perception
Detail image: Newsreel, Nippon News No. 1, 1940, The Captured Collections, Library of Congress.To accompany the exhibition The Potemkin Project, at the Slought Foundation, Sam Gregory of Witness and I...
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A conversation with Sam Gregory
Photographic interpolation of projected 16mm film, “Ác-mộng Mười Năm, 1954–1964” (Nightmare Ten Years Long, 1954–1964), Vietnam. Ivan Sigal, 2019.This fall, Philadelphia’s Slought Foundation — an...
View ArticleFebruary 28, 2021 @ 7:20 EST
https://ivansigal.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Sequence-02.mp4It’s been several years since I wrote with any regularity. Until recently I put this loss down to a break in my daily rhythms, in which I...
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