 Das Medium Religion (Religion as Medium), 2006 In these two video lectures, the media theorist and philosopher Boris Groys combines an item on the role of religion as a medium and on modern visions of immortality with a collage of selected historical as well as contemporary film extracts. These videos shows both the correlation with and the gap between what we hear in the media and what we see there, and in this way it furnishes insight into the relationship existing between image and word in our media-managed world. So the audiovisual medium of video does not here serve, as is usual in mass media today, the effective distribution of information or of propaganda for ideologies, but much rather makes an issue out of video itself as a medium. The difference between the private and the public use of video becomes visible, as well as endlessly looped video as the contemporary form of a ritual and as a topical vision of immortality.  Unsterbliche Körper (The Immortal Bodies), 2007 Boris Groys, * 1947 in Berlin (D), lebt und arbeitet in Karlsruhe, Köln (D) und New York (USA)  Boris Groys, Das Medium Religion (Religion as Medium), 2006 video lecture (colour, sound) 25 min., loop courtesy Boris Groys Production ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2006 Commissioned by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Boris Groys, Unsterbliche Körper (The Immortal Bodies), 2007 video lecture (colour, sound) 29 min., loop courtesy Boris Groys Production ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2007 In cooperation with Associazione Culturale il Vento del Cinema Roma Use of a 3-minute excerpt of: Nekromantik (D, 1988) directed by: Jörg Buttgereit screenplay: Jörg Buttgereit, Franz Rodenkirchen production: Manfred O. Jelinski
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