But they're too grounded in space and time, too organized and linear, too collaborative and professional to deliver the synaptic frisson available from the stream-of-consciousness image blog.
Interspersed with abstract passages from paintings, these seemingly stream-of-consciousness images are played off against one another in arrangements that allow for multiple readings on the part of the viewer.
The sky-scraping tower teeters between utopia and dystopia in the collective consciousness, an image either of attempted unity of purpose or of oppression and failure.
One cause is people's own internalization of the oppressor consciousness [or "image," as Freire says at one point (Ibid, 61)].
The possible intellect which, as defined by Aristotle, can become all things (cf. De anima III 5, 430a14 15)—is able to know either as ordinary consciousness (in images, species of things) or as self-consciousness through self-knowledge (without images, free from images).
Rouch and Morin create a cinematic stream of consciousness, joining images of her solitary wanderings through Paris to her anguished recollections (murmured live into a hidden mic) of her family's wartime sufferings and her father's death.
The strike, the only one in the department's 138-year existence, proved the unthinkable: that the covenant between rescuer and civilian -- until then seared in the city's collective consciousness through images of burly men carrying victims from smoky tenements and tales of volunteer firemen brawling in the streets to be first to put out fires -- could be broken.
The more complex and imbedded in consciousness the images of ubiquitous technology become, the more this unholy and yet ever so luscious art + machina merger demands our careful sorting: as viewers (now users) of images; as makers of representations; as those of us who comment on same.
Her magnificent new video installation, "Women from Antwerp in November," at the Marian Goodman Gallery (24 West 57th Street), can be seen as a variation on a pair of themes by Godard: personal identity as a theatrical construct, and the inseparability of self-consciousness from images seen in movies.
What role do social media, which encourage relentless image consciousness, play in our shopping choices?
As a comment on American might, entitlement and image consciousness it is as effective and as two-dimensional as a political cartoon, but like everything else in their exhibition, it has an unsentimental harshness that is something of an accomplishment.
