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Stolen images, bended script codes, distorted web formats, ready mades non-objects, and poetic trolling - the constant flow of "Dimensions Variable" from ultra prolific Dimitris Papadatos expends, crystalizing the beauty of a supra contemporary world, as perishable and ungraspable as "here-and-now".

Straight at the top of the rising wave of open source formatting and web scripture, which provides everyone with the advantage and embarrassment of a new pair of clumsy powerful harms that can reach globally, Dimitri Papadatos has walked in the virtual world with the arrogance, the sharpness and lucidity of a romantic enfant terrible - the curiosity and perseverance of an artiste paysagiste, feeding himself with everything perishable in an aborted eldorado, occupied until recently solely by gold seekers and anonymous rioters.

The recipe of his tour de force: - An absolute commitment to intangible forms - anti-matter that can't be bought, nor categorized or explained. - A constant disdain for the Ego, powered by the contemplative attitude of an erudite. -The conviction that by brain processing the output of all processors -and which ever algorithm is in use - the message fucks the medium.

During this Week Boom-Wow! explores in a single post the latest works from the constallation Dimitris Papadatos.

And as a starter, Boomwow meets Dimitris on one of his favorite battleground at the occasion of his closing day on #000FF online gallery. Here is the transcription of his interview. Enjoy

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INTERVIEW BY BOOM WOW, STATUS UPDATE,COMMENTS, DIMENSIONS VARIABLE, 2012

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#0000FF It all depends on the way you look at it. And by the way I actually mean the medium and format.

Saturday at 14:13 · Like

#0000FF I never use quotes such as : ‘It’s all in the eye of the beholder’ or ‘it’s not about looking but understanding’

Saturday at 14:13 · Like

#0000FF For this show ,what I tried to do was to keep a steady pace of posting and maintaining a natural process of being present. What you are looking at is a momentum of an avatar, the relics of time spent through endless browsing and an abstract illustration of a user, drawn by the self referential mechanics of online society systems.

Saturday at 14:15 · Like

Boomwow Theblog What about the ' Super- art' term?

Saturday at 14:16 · Like

#0000FF The ‘Super-art’ term does not apply to this volume of work, given the fact that what I am using here is not an extended overflow of computer graphics to create a wonderful ,never the less, image.

Saturday at 14:17 · Like

Boomwow Theblog Yes, I understand that, but would you ever use a term?

Saturday at 14:18 · Like

#0000FF I guess a theatrical term would be more appropriate. ‘Optimized realism’ and ‘super- theater ‘ could do the work. :)

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Boomwow Theblog  Will you define briefly few concepts that your recent work has unleashed?

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#0000FF Ok!

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Boomwow Theblog Greece vs the world

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#0000FF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW_O__uBHtA IT'S AN ORTHODOX XIAN THING.

greeks + serbs vs. new world order

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greeks + serbs vs. new world order greece serbia greeks serbians brothers

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Boomwow Theblog Virtual vs physical

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#0000FF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqQZIejCIVg WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ?

David Hockney: Fleurs Fraîches ...... Dessins sur iPhone et iPad

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Video of film from exhibition at Fondation Pierre Bergé et Yves Saint Laurent, December 2011

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Boomwow Theblog Dimensions Variable

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#0000FF Yes please.

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Boomwow Theblog Elitist

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#0000FF http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.gr/

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Boomwow Theblog Facebook online gallery.

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#0000FF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33TbR_1Mx7g WITCH HUNT

Warlock - Burning the Witches

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This is how metal is supposed to sound kids. Evil dies by fire! Doro rocks!

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Boomwow Theblog Nation

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#0000FF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6aS2NWcC6Y

Diavolitsi-panigiri-kagkoures!

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Funnn!

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Boomwow Theblog Copyright

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#0000FF https://vimeo.com/48043838

CHANGE,VIDEO,DIMENSIONS VARIABLE,2012

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Boomwow Theblog Middle class

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#0000FF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f224OWYcaAY

14 Human Design Generator Aura Type

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Hawaii's John Martin returns to explain the Human Design 'Aura Types' and how to...

live your design. Deepen your understanding of the free Human Design persona...

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Boomwow Theblog Haters

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#0000FF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ0xpAVcQRc

Man who killed 12 students in Rio left video (english subtitle)

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THE POLICE JUST RELEASED A NEW VIDEO. IN THE NEW FOOTAGE THE KILLER, WITH LONG B...

EARD, SPEAKS MORE AND INCITES HIS "BROTHERS" TO COTINUE HIS WORK - WATCH HERE...

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#0000FF AND THIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuIoWt5yiKw

Justin Bieber Elaborate Prank Shocks Fans

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http://bit.ly/Wdsnsw - Click to see the full music video! http://Bit.ly/SubClevv...

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Boomwow Theblog Format vs message

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#0000FF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdzXkuTJFSQ

myopic cycle test

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Boomwow Theblog China

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#0000FF https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=uInbq5BcMzw

Chinese "eye exercises" not working

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Despite daily "eye exercises" Chinese kids still have some of the worst eyesight in the world. The solution? Let's drive the clinic to the school!

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Boomwow Theblog 3 w 8

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#0000FF 6 6 6

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#0000FF https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150689957047494.458764.572047493&type=3

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Boomwow Theblog Is a total event availabe in the age of online communities and multiple ‘events’?

Saturday at 14:47 · Like

#0000FF I think it is easier now. We just have to re- explore the norms of non-being. The physical presence has a way to distort reality and be deceiving. My work is all about the spiritual presence that an avatar includes. And the only working transmission process is through repeatedly summoning this presence. In this case it’s like having a ghost party. Maybe better a host party.

Saturday at 14:51 · Like

Boomwow Theblog What is the average date of expiration and price of one of your online works for a possible consumer?

Saturday at 14:52 · Like

#0000FF My online work is not for sale. I was talking to this artist who immediately thought I was working for Facebook when I told him that.

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Boomwow Theblog You release your LP on a record label. What motivates you to print your music on vinyl instead of choosing your usual ‘dimension variable’ immaterial format’ ?

Saturday at 14:55 · Like

#0000FF It is mainly because I want to see the cover of my LP at my friends' collections. Plus I am a collector myself.

Saturday at 14:56 · Like

Boomwow Theblog At ‘Boomwow’ we usually end our interviews with a game…. Hum … what about trolling? Wanna play? Could be fun. So here we go: Say a number between 1-20. Select it on your fb chat menu. Let’s start trolling their wall!! Btw do you think trolling emancipates or kills the political debate?

Saturday at 14:58 · Like

#0000FF hahaha

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#0000FF ok

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#0000FF well

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#0000FF 5

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#0000FF ok i will post the trolling as screen shots :P

Saturday at 15:01 · Like

#0000FF Anyway, what I think about trolling is that its political enforcement is damned to remain biased.Of course it is always a matter of who you troll.The thing is that in a magical way , it can be a heavenly lie detector test.

Saturday at 15:06 · Like

#0000FF We, as species are not ready to deal with confrontation.

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Boomwow Theblog Ok. Thank you for your time Dimitris. Tag me on the screen shots! :)

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#0000FF Ok

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#0000FF Thank you !

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last day campaigning for a candidate that does not exist among people that have no right to vote.

We wonder at Boom-Wow! what Walter Benjamin would have thought of Bruno Latour, founder of The School of Political Arts. The term of "politicization of aesthetics" would have certainly pop out.

On the other hand, the french philosopher Yves Michaud sees Latour as a artist of a new kind -the producers- and thinks of his school as part of a more general trend of "aestheticization of everything".

So, is it one or the other?...Well, at Boom-Wow! we think it's none of the two.

We believe in pragmatism and in diplomacy. Which means today new languages, mediums and forms of communication have to be explored, and new spaces for a political dialog have to be invented. This approach makes Bruno Latour's initiative very relevant to us.

Sciences Po School of Political Arts

Opening scheduled in 2010  Founded by Bruno Latour and Valérie Pihet

“This school is not about science, nor arts, nor politics. No matter the initial calling — research, politics, the arts — the task lies in front of these disciplines, it does not belong to any of them in advance. This is why we will be able to host so many different professions and professionals: what they already know is far less important to us than the trajectory that we will effect with them. We will not join science, art and politics together but rather dissemble them first and, unfamiliar and renewed, take them up again afterwards, but differently.” BRUNO LATOUR, Director of The School of Political Arts

The School of Political Arts is the first course of its kind: combining the social sciences, humanities, and the arts broadly considered, breaking down disciplinary barriers, and overcoming the artificial divide between the arts and the sciences, between the academic and the professional. The School is open to young professionals from around the world—academics, artists, architects, designers, curators, journalists, entrepreneurs, etc.—seeking to hone their skill set, advance their academic expertise, or even actively reassess their careers. The school’s aim is to provide artists with a high-level training in the social sciences (methods for empirical inquiry), and, conversely, to confront social scientists and public or private sector professionals with the qualities and methodologies of the arts. These two fields will not be studied side by side; but rather will converge through teaching experiments and an innovative curriculum grounded in common objects of study. The public sphere will be taken as the focal point of this convergence. For, indeed, the question at the heart of this project is the crisis of representation (in the largest possible sense). This crisis can only be overcome by associating three practices of representation that have as yet been relatively separated: political representation, scientific represetntation, and aesthetic representation. The School’s pedagogical program is grounded in project development and production. Participants will have to work in groups on a specific project throughout the year, with a particular emphasis on fieldwork. A considerable number of the proposed courses will be in direct resonance with these projects; the remaining teachings will provide core curricular knowledge in keeping with the spirit of the school.

The main teaching body will be decisively international, composed of renowned artists, social scientists, art historians, and new media theorists, etc. Their contributions can take on a variety of formats and tempos (periodic or regular teachings, from a one hour master class to an entire trimester’s coursework).

Bruno Latour, born in France in 1947, is a sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher of science. From 1982 to 2006, he was professor at the Centre de sociologie de l’Innovation at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, the London School of Economics and Harvard University. In 2006, he was named professor at Sciences Po Paris and has since become dean of the institute’s Board of Studies. Best known for his contribution to the sociology of science, his fieldwork has focused on the social construction of scientific research. His work has also questioned the exclusive role of "social" materials in the "construction" of scientific facts, overcoming social constructivism with the broader approach of actor-network theory. His most well-known works are Laboratory Life (1979), Science in Action (1987), and We Have Never Been Modern (1991). In 2008, Bruno Latour received the Siegfried Unseld Prize for his lifetime contributions to research. In 2002, he co-curated the critically acclaimed international exhibition Iconoclash, beyond the image wars in science, religion and art at the ZKM Center in Karlsruhe. In 2005, he co-curated Making Things Public. The atmospheres of democracy. In 2007, he was named president of the Fondation de France’s Cultural Committee.

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