23 April 2015

The Charge of the Light Regard : a timeline

        
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
     
Theatre of the Actors of the Regard saw the light, and it was good.

1919 : The Irish poet W.B.Yeats composes The Second Coming.
It concludes with the lines :

    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
            
1920 : The word robot is relatively recent. From the Czech robotnik "slave" and robota "forced labor", it was first used by Karel Čapek in 1920, in his sci-fi play R.U.R. (Rosumovi Univerzální Roboti with the original English subtitle Rossum’s Universal Robots.)

1927 : The first robot appears on film in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

1933 : The film King Kong in which a gorilla colossus is loosed upon the Modern City colossus.

1935 : Two years later, Melbourne stages the All-Electrical Exhibition. The promotional image shows a robot colossus standing over and over-scaling the great Royal Exhibition Building as it regards the equally great electrically luminous exhibition architecture.

     See : Power and Modernity : A Photo Essay on the Centenary
     All-Electricity Exhibition, 1935  by Robin Grow, 2008
     
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2015 : This 2013 exhibition from London's Hayward Gallery is restaged at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (16 April - 5 July 2015)
         
See the ELECTRICAL MAN :
     


SEE THE ELECTRICAL WONDERS :
                 

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
See your Self (sic) see the Electrical Man see the Electrical Wonders of this bLOGOS/HA HA Light Show :
        
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