University of Oregon

Spinoza: Axioms

This film was shown at:

„Bilder – Sehen - Denken“, Chemnitz, 2009

The Art of Research, Helsinki, 2009

Interrogations: Creative Interdisciplinarity in Art and Design Research, Loughborough, 2009

EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DESIGN CONFERENCE, Aberdeen, 2009

Film-Philosophy, Liverpool, 2011

EVA (Electronic Visualisations and the Arts), London, 2011

Soundcheck Philosophie, Halle an der Saale, 2011

etc.



This film is concerned with a short passage by Baruch de Spinoza from his book: The Ethics. In this passage he defines his axioms.



This film belongs to the series Language-Cinema from 2008. It is part of an research project on the relationship between pictorial media and theoretical language. Each films tries to establish a form of analogy between the content or formal aspects of the original philosophical text and the animations. It was published as part of the book and DVD "Sprachkino" (Language-Cinema).



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