Soluble Fish :: digital poetics

Collage

Film of Sound

In Collaboration, Collage, Handmade, Narrative, Remix, Text, Video on 6 February 2012 tagged film of sound, hazel smith, roger dean, will luers with no comments

Having forgotten and then remembered why I once started blogging, I am now going to make a sincere effort to keep my own record of things going on. One of the things going on is that I have a new video work that is out and about, currently awaiting replies from various venues. Film of [...]

“ambience is a novel with a logo” by Tan Lin

In Collage, Poetics, Practice, Termite, Uncategorized on 17 March 2011 tagged ambient, tan lin, writing with no comments

After being gently knocked over by “Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking”, I ordered “ambience is a novel with a logo.”. I recommend you scroll through my little video reading to get acquainted with Tan Lin.   click to play Lin remixes networked and print reading/writing practices into something dense, beautiful, [...]

Practices of Construction

In cinema, Collage, Practice, Theory on 26 May 2010 tagged blake_butler, cinema, Collage, david_shields, experimental, fragment, htmlgiant, michael_robinson, Practice, raul_ruiz, reality_hunger, video with no comments

This year I have been doing a lot of listening to the now all-inclusive field of “digital media art.” I regularly read the blog HTMLGIANT for insight into how fiction and poetry writers are adapting to the changes digital culture brings to literary form. In a recent conversation between Blake Butler and Matthew Simmons about [...]

Abigail Child – Mayhem (part 6 of Is This What You Were Born For?)

In Collage, Poetics on 22 April 2009 with no comments

via Ubu Mayhen 1987, by Abigail Child Part 6 of Is This What You Were Born For? Film (16 mm, b/w, sound, 20 min.). This whole series will require some deep attention if I can find it.

Story vs. Collage

In Collage, Novelty, Poetics on 11 March 2009 tagged Barthelme, cinema, Collage, fragment, movies, novels, story with 1 comment

None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew (or thought one knew) what it did. -Susan Sontag,  Against Interpretation. The 3-minute pop song has it’s roots in the [...]