Project DO NOT ERASE

		Do Not Erase .... wait for Meaning ran from 2004 through 2008 and was produced at the University of Amsterdam. Leitmotiv was the complex relation between object, subject and reality that we seek to understand, we wonder about and will never be able to survey completely. It is the drive and reason for us making art as well as doing science and philosophy. In order to come to some sort of an understanding - be it temporally and never fixed - we make systems of certain aspects of the world, diagrams, theories, works of art and the like. We try to condense complex phenomena into for us comprehensible (re)presentations of those phenomena. Or to say it in Wittgensteinian terms: we make übersichtliche Darstellungen - perspicuous (re)presentations. In this project, the übersichtliche Darstellung was examined and compared to the notion of installation in visual art. In a sense, both provide a perspicuous overview of a particular part of our complex world, but the nature of the overview differs. Although both generate knowledge, philosophy via the übersichtliche Darstellung gives us a view of how things stand for us, while the installation shows an unexpected, exciting point of view. The obvious we tend to forget and the ambiguity of reality are related to each other in a dynamic way. It is in this 'reflexive dynamics' that we constant remodel reality.
		Doctoral committee Supervisor: Martin Stokhof. Members: Renate Bartsch, Peter Goldie, Michel ter Hark, Michiel van Lambalgen, Ruth Sonderegger, Michael Craig-Martin, Liam Gillick

Artist book & PhD thesis Remodel[l]ing Reality An inquiry into Wittgenstein's notion of übersichtliche Darstellung and the phenomenon of installation in visual art.

Concept and production: Tine Wilde Dimensions: 30.1cm x 21.3cm Specifications: 210 pages, hardcover + loose booklet/poster and sheet with photos and text, laid in rear behind string tie, English. Edition: 350 copies Printer: drukkerij Mart Spruijt bv. Binder: Boekbinderij Patist B.V. Publisher: Wilde Oceans Publications ISBN: 978-90-804240-3-6 Publishing date: November 2008 See also: rere2008

		12.11.2008		photos: Thomas Lenden
				Promotion ceremony, defending dissertation Remodel[l]ing Reality, Old Lutheran Church, Singel 411, Amsterdam
		21.6-13.7 2008		Exhibition: Do not rase. Installation covering four rooms. Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.

18.2 2008

Conceptual analysis & Reflexive Dynamics. Wittgenstein workshop at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK).

2.8 2007

Lecture: Knowing-that, Knowing-how, and Knowing detached. International conference The Value of Knowledge. Department of philosophy, Free University Amsterdam.

		1.7 2007		Letter to the Future. Lecture within the scope of Hotel New York-Inquiry in Location. Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam.
		24.6 2007		Discussion: Genesis. Debate on science, technology and art. Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
		2006		Article: Normativity and Novelty in Cultures: Conflict-Analysis-Dialogue. Eds.: Gasser, G.C. Kanzian and E. Runggladier. Papers of the 29th Wittgenstein Symposium. Contributions of the Austrian Wittgenstein Society, ALWS 2006, pp.370-372. Also published online in the Agora-project of the Wittgenstein Archives of the University in Bergen (N).
		November 2006		A0 booklet/poster, providing an overview of the previous InstallationPackages. Amsterdam: Wilde Oceans Publications.
		5.11 2006		Performance De Taal en haar Broekje (Language and her Tighty-whities) and presentation of booklet Remodel[l]ing Reality, Arti et Amicitae Amsterdam.
		11.8 2006		Lecture: Normativity and Novelty. The 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel (AT).
		31.3 2006		Lecture: Rule-following and the problem of novelty. V.A.F.-I conference, Department of Philosophy, Free University Amsterdam.
		13.3 2006		Presentation: Een kunstenaar op Kennispad. Berichten van het kennisfront. Maagdenhuis op Maandag, Spui 21, University of Amsterdam.
		11.3 2005		Remodelling Reality. Lecture/performance at the conference on the Philosophy of Information, Cristofori, Amsterdam.
		2004		Article: Reflexieve dymaniek in het latere werk van Wittgenstein. Een onderzoek naar verbanden tussen zijn opmerkingen over de kleur, aspecten zien en zekerheid. In: Algemeen nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte: Volume 96, no.2, pp.85-113.
		10.1-1.2 2004		Exhibition: The Cave. Mixed media. Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
		17.8 2002		Lecture: The 4th Dimension. Wittgenstein on Colour and Imagination. The 25th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Kirchberg am Wechsel (AT).