Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction)

To second of third dinner? :D

Allegedly, it's because of European GDPR and DSA. Really? European moviemakers were huge part of Vimeo community. And which privacy data were in question for you to just skip it, "too tiresome, let's close it for Europe". Thinking about cancelling my membership.

Ehm, @Vimeo, what's going on?
As a paying customer I don't only use it to host my videos, but I've used Vimeo since 2008 to discover new cinema people and video art (which was way better than Youtube). Are you serious? That's how my fav page looks like: vimeo.com/home/feed

John Cage about advertising:

"Advertising's discredited itself. When they advertise something, we avoid it"

From: John Cage, A Year from Monday, 1967

I can relate. Advertising for profit, without self-convinction, will fail in modern times. I avoid ads and products they sell.

Call me old-fashioned, call me stupid, call me European. Just call me.

Watching absolutely mesmerizing "Jane B. par Agnès V." (1988)

Varda re-creates Birkin in completely fantastic way. The time is an onion, being dissected by a camera's knife and you see the layers of our meta-fictional reality.

CUT! 🔪

John Cage about future of multimedial communication:

"Effect of videophone on travel? That we'll stay home, settling like gods for impressions we'll give of being everywhere at once?"

From: John Cage, A Year from Monday, 1967

Still in awe by @Magnific_AI. It can restore photos perfectly. Here is me (on the left, with a friend) in my early years, 1980ies, as always in a theater. I spent my childhood in theaters, sweet memories. Left - Magnific-restored, right - original damaged photo.

Fun fact: The shelf with books and magazines that I wrote or contributed to fell off the wall. It was probably too heavy. I've now used stronger screws. I feel kind of honored.

Confusing and absurd copyright story around Mondrian's "Composition II with Red, Blue, and Yellow” (1930).

"The estate’s legal argument is more Dada than De Stijl" Aaron Moss
copyrightlately.com/...

#MerzmenschPresents:
POSTLIMEN

Coming 2026

#MicroMERZ (2023)

“Hi, my name is VVA-5400, and this is Tom, my imaginary friend.”

In our reading "Maschinen stimmen" about Poetry of humans and machines, we'll also mention you, dear poets - here a small selection - and we are thinking of you whose books are missing here.

Heute!

maschinen stimmen
Gedichte zwischen Mensch & KI.
Franziska Ostermann & Merzmensch in Lesung und Gespräch
Morgen, am 3.3.2026 im Literaturhaus Kiel.
Franziska Ostermann @merzmensch.bsky.social @landesbibliothek.bsky.social

Yep, it's an upscaled Plato's Cave going on right now...

Oh ja! 😀

maschinen stimmen
Gedichte zwischen Mensch & KI.
Franziska Ostermann & Merzmensch in Lesung und Gespräch
Morgen, am 3.3.2026 im Literaturhaus Kiel.
Franziska Ostermann @merzmensch.bsky.social @landesbibliothek.bsky.social

Ist doch wunderbar! Ein Dada-Kit zum Selbermachen! 😀

Computational poetry! A prominent place in "Cybernetic Serendipity" (1968) is taken by poets! Alison Knowles, Nanni Balestrini, Margaret Masterman etc are using programming and algorithms to unleash poetic power, or to stumble upon wonderful system bugs. Bugs? Or more than that?

Stop the war.

And with "war" I mean this war.

And that war too.

And that over there as well.

Stop all wars.

And that one you oppose.

And this one you defend.

Stop all wars.

On all sides.

Get rid of guns.

There is only one thing to be exterminated: hate. In yourself.

Kommentarathletikdisziplinbeherrschungsnachweis.

Guten Morgen!

ありがとう！実は、４月５日にきます、一番最後ww

Yep, foreigner (?) here as well. I emigrated as teenager from Russia to Germany in the 1990ies. Now meanwhile with German citizenship. And I ask me: am I foreigner just for not being born here? Studying German literature, writing books in German, doing lectures meanwhile. What is "foreignness"?..

Dada DIY!

Cabaret Voltaire Bausatz Nr.11

(legendäres züricher Gründungslokal der internationalen Dada Bewegung)

Idee Writing Prompting AIart Realisation

Meister Jeder, Dadaist und Modellbauer 3/26
#dada #CabaretVoltaire #Zürich #Blister #Dadaismus

いいですね、その通り！🙂 東京Nodeの攻殻機動隊exhibitionで買えるかな？私は四月に日本へ旅行をします:)

すごい！欲しい～！

Jahrgang 1988: Nichtrückkehr von drei Sängern des Dresdner Kreuzchores Nach dem MfS vorliegenden Hinweisen haben im Rahmen einer Gastspielreise des Dresdener Kreuzchores in der Zeit vom 25. Oktober bis 13.

Faszinierendes Dokument über drei Sänger des Dresdner Knabenchors, die in Tokyo 1988 zur BRD Botschaft übergelaufen sind und nach Asyl baten. Liest sich wie ein Krimi!

#MERZslop #0020
Unfinished slop.
I began with this drawing, but then I had an idea for a short video-poetry film. So I'm off to use my AI tools instead).