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Radio Inferno

April 21, 2007 By Professor Arielle Saiber

radio-inferno-1993 “In 1993, German artist Andreas Ammer teamed up with members of Einsturzende Neubauten and legendary DJ John Peel to produce a radio play of Dante’s Divine Comedy. The result was Radio Inferno, with music by Einsturzende’s F.M. Einheit, and starring Blixa Bargeld as Dante, Phil Minton as Virgil, and John Peel as “The Radio” (the narrator). Caspar Brotzmann played guitar, and the work includes guest appearance from Bootsy Collins and many others.”    —WFMU, February 18, 2007

Contributed by Jenny Davidson

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 1993, Germany, Inferno, Radio

Star Trek’s First Pilot Episode, “The Cage” (1966)

February 1, 2007 By Professor Arielle Saiber

star-trek-pilot-episode

Captain Pike says he feels like he is in Dante’s Inferno.

Contributed by Lisa Peterson (Bowdoin, ’07)

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1966, Inferno, Science Fiction, Television

Dante’s Inferno Cakes

January 24, 2007 By Professor Arielle Saiber

dantes-inferno-cake.jpg

Made by Renee Palma and Sundee Koffarnus for the Edible Books Show

http://www2.colum.edu/centers/bpa/gallery/exhibitions2003/ediblebooks2003/DantesInferno.html
(retrieved on January 24, 2007)

Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2007, Cakes, Desserts, Humor, Inferno

Sandow Birk’s Illustrations of the “Divine Comedy”

January 24, 2007 By Professor Arielle Saiber

sandow-birk-illustrations-to-the-divine-comedy

“A five year project which involved adapting the text of the entire “Divine Comedy” into contemporary slang and setting the action in contemporary urban America. The project resulted in three, limited edition books, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each book contained more than 60 original lithographs and was published by Trillium Press in San Francisco.”    —Sandow Birk

See also: Sandow Birk’s film “Dante’s Inferno” (2007)

Categories: Image Mosaic, Performing Arts, Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2006, 2007, Films, Humor, Illustrated Books, Illustrations, Inferno, Lithographs, Paradiso, Prints, Purgatorio, Translations

Rolando Perez, “The Electric Comedy” (2000)

January 11, 2007 By Professor Arielle Saiber

rolando-perez-the-electric-comedy-2000“Confronting not the papacy but the postmodern world of the Internet and global economics, this collection of satirical poems inspired by Dante’s Inferno explores the comic and tragic realities of contemporary life. At times graphic and abrasive, the language and style in this stirring collection mirrors the violence and social fragmentation that it describes. The imagined thoughts and interests of Dante as he composed the Inferno infuse this edgy, inventive collection that invites readers to participate in the creation of new mythologies that draw from the wisdom of the past.”    —Google Books

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2000, Economics, Inferno, Internet, Poetry, Satire

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