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Poetics

“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, [...]

Sebald on the iPad

In Poetics, Portland, Uncategorized on 3 February 2010 tagged ipad, photo, Publishing, sebald with no comments

Many of us know what to do with a web page filled with different media. There is no longer a “web of attractions” where text next to image next to video carries an inherent fascination. What is left of the web’s mystery is just a weary awe at an expanding network of data. So much [...]

A cinema art market?

In cinema, Novelty, Poetics on 23 April 2009 tagged 1000fans, art, cinema, distribution, indie, market with 2 comments

Digital filmmaker Alejandro Adams, of the original and newer braintrustdv.com, has organized and posted a self-distribution roundtable. Here is my entry: What if cinema art’s economic model shifted from its traditional show business roots to something resembling the art market and in the process helped reconstruct the economics of art–making in the digital age. That’s [...]

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.

life, the universe and art

In Poetics on 30 March 2009 with 1 comment

My apologies to Belinda for not linking to this interview earlier. It is an interview with me about my video work – an exercise and an unexpected pleasure to articulate what I’m trying to do, my inspirations etc. Check out the other interviews on her site. Inspiring work.

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 [...]