Jakub Jernajczyk (Poland)

The circle of knowledge (2008)

Programme: Willa Lentza, Filia 13 muz, Wojska Polskiego 84 Saturday (21.03) Start 18:00

Jakub's Circle  (a fragment of a review )
The title of Jakub Jernajczyk's project itself – The circle of knowledge – is perverse and ironic, it smells like paradox, it makes you sensitise.
Starting from Quine's growing circle the author offers, on one hand his own original model of human knowledge development, and on the other hand he knows that – paradoxical exactly – the finale of these efforts will take us again – seemingly – back to their starting point. I say seemingly, as, in the aspect of quality , it will be neither the same point nor the same original condition.
Jernajczyk replaces Quine's growing circle with a circle of constant area. It is surely a readable symbol of the Platonic ideal of full knowledge, finite and absolute.  The limited, although progressing knowledge of humans is represented by a figure built from pixels. The synonym of evolution of the knowledge is
a process of smoothing the figure out: the pixels become smaller and they reveal the shape of a circle. What is more, the pixels are dynamic. Each of them is a small TV screen, which contains its own, separate narration. We can see hundreds and then thousands of pieces of information, events, stories. But we are not able to follow each of them separately . The narrations, chosen at random,   sum up and create a totally new quality . A new picture is created from multimedia atoms. Maybe some of them are memories, or maybe even infected software of our brains.
Jernajczyk seems obviously to be saying that: there always awaits us an infinite number of problems to be solved, and knowledge development will last orever.
There may be many readings or interpretations.
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Giovanni Sartori's followers may reach for his terms  homo videns or  video – child, or for his statement that  Television creates pictures and destroys ideas; thus it weakens our ability of abstract thinking and together with that our whole ability of understanding.
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Robert Gawłowski  
managing director of Feature Film Company
in Wrocław