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Video clip of the exhibition Moving Through Time and Space, 2021, Dazibao.

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© David Tomas, documentation of the performance Les incubateurs, Dazibao, 1998. — © David Tomas, documentation of the performance Les incubateurs, Dazibao, 1998.

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In 2001, David Tomas published The Encoded Eye, the Archive, and its Engine House, the first three-dimensional Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) e-book in Canada. — In 2001, David Tomas published The Encoded Eye, the Archive, and its Engine House, the first three-dimensional Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) e-book in Canada.

Past work: End of the line (2001).

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Contemporary Art Auction Research Group, Stagnating in Obscurity, Awaiting Discovery (2021).

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The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was fought during the First World War from 1 July to 18 November 1916. In the summer of 1916 the British launched the largest battle of the war on the Western Front, against German lines. T… — The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was fought during the First World War from 1 July to 18 November 1916. In the summer of 1916 the British launched the largest battle of the war on the Western Front, against German lines. The offensive was one of the bloodiest in human history. Over the course of five months, approximately 1.2 million men were killed or wounded at the Somme. The Canadian Corps (see Canadian Expeditionary Force) was involved in the final three months of fighting. On the first day of the offensive, the First Newfoundland Regiment, which was not part of the Canadian forces, was nearly annihilated at Beaumont-Hamel. The Battle of the Somme produced little gains and has long been an example of senseless slaughter and the futility of trench warfare (see also The Somme).
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-the-somme
World War I, during which the Battle of Somme took place, marked the first time that a war would be documented by film or cinema and used for propaganda purposes.

Vertov, the documentary and the mechanical eyeOne of the particularities of Vertov's cinema is that it detaches from any narrative structure while trying to make the world around it as neutral as possible by relying on what he called the mechanical …