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The institutions of Resolution Disputes [iRD] call attention to media resolutions. While a ’resolution’ generally simply refers to a standard (measurement) embedded in the technological domain, the iRD reflect on the fact that a resolution is indeed a settlement (solution), but at the same time a space of compromise between different actors (objects, materialities and protocols) who dispute their stakes (framerate, number of pixels etc.) within the growing digital territories. Resolutions inform both machine vision and human ways of perception. They shape the material of everyday life ubiquitously. They do this not just as an “interface effect”* but as hyperopic lens, obfuscating any other possible alternative resolution from the users media literacy. The question is, ‘have we become unable to construct our own resolutions, or have we become oblivious to them?’ Either way we are in need for another re-“(Re-)Distribution of the Sensible”. iRD intend to impose methods of “creative proble...

The iRD calls attention to media resolutions. These resolutions function as settlements (solutions), but at the same time form a compromise between different actors (objects, materialities and protocols) disputing their stakes in the claim of “new territories” by technological colonization.

INSTITUTIONS OF RESOLUTION DISPUTE [iRD] a solo exhibition by Rosa Menkman March 28th – April 18th, 2015 Detail from ‘Myopia’, Rosa Menkman, 2015 TRANSFER is pleased to present ‘ INSTITUTIONS OF RESOLUTION DISPUTE [iRD] ’, the first NYC solo exhibition from Dutch artist Rosa Menkman. institutions of Resolution Disputes [iRD] “everywhere we imagined ourselves standing turned into a cliche beneath our feet” Naomi Klein , No logo, 1999. RESOLUTIONS INFORM BOTH MACHINE VISION AND HUMAN WAYS OF PERCEPTION. THEY ARE THE MATERIAL OF EVERYDAY LIFE*, UBIQUITOUS, WHILE HUMANS HAVE GONE MOSTLY OBLIVIOUS. iRD STRIVES FOR A RADICAL MATERIALIST re- (RE-)DISTRIBUTION OF THE SENSIBLE** . * Michel de Certeau , The Practice of Everyday Life, 1984. ** Jacques Ranciere , The Politics of Aesthetics, 2004. Even the most glitchy-glitch is just the vernacular of an already present, not evenly distributed future. When we walk inside these futures we find ourselves momentarily stuck inside a pocket of ambig...

Look at that gorgeous photo!  Yesterday my celluloid short film Lunar Storm was screened as part of the  Vertical Cinema  program at  Glasgow Short Film Festival , It looks amazing!  Next week Vertical Cinema is moving continents to  SXSW . Wow.  And I am too, for my solo show at  TRANSFER  Gallery New York!  Besides that, if you are in Birmingham tonight: there will be a screening of  Ways of Something  1,2&3 @  Vivid Projects  (with one minute by me and many more minutes by more  amazing people) Thanks to the wonderful  Lorna Mills ! Oh yes, and next week: the  Symposium Born Digital  in Breda, Netherlands, where I will talk with  Jan Robert Leegte ,  Josephine Bosma   Gerben Willers  and  Rafaël Rozendaal ! The Line-up: 11/03/15 - Vertical Cinema @  GSFF, Glasgow, Scotland 12/03/15 - Ways of Something @ VIVID, Birmingham, UK 17/03/15 - Vertical Cinema @ SXSW, Te...