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"The Invention of Morel"
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1991, 1998
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YAMAGUCHI
Katsuhiro
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Katsuhiro YAMAGUCHI's work is a video pastiche based on a novel "The
Invention of Morel" by Adolfo Bioy Casares, a friend of Borges,
written in 1940, which predicts on freezing and preservation of images
of the reality. Since the modern technology did not exist when the
original story was written, the parody is interestingly and sometimes
frighteningly more realistic than the original. If reality can be
stored in the raw, analog form and thawed as necessary -- for example,
if routine activities are not formed into data but transferred into
a library or museum without processing -- it may be more frightening
than digital technology.
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