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“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, [...]

Smoke and Clouds

In Poetics, Termite on 30 December 2008 with 1 comment

The artwork as a field of potential meaning. Frustrating for some, exhilarating for others. An interview with Diane Williams in elimae. elimae: …. Is it your aim, as much as you may be able to describe your aim, to allow the language of your fictions to achieve some semblance beyond which you intended, to become, [...]

Novelty and Authenticity

In Novelty, Poetics, Termite on 19 June 2008 with 1 comment

Six months away from the vlog. There is a lot going on behind the scenes – personal/professional/national/global – but really I have been thinking, reading and absorbing. Where to go with one’s extra energy? Being a contemporary “media worker” is all about stops, starts and about-faces. Mark Deuze’s Media Work lays out the opportunities and [...]

Cinema Gardens

In Loop, Termite on 28 November 2007 with 2 comments

Listening to the many great speakers on the Seminars About Long Term Thinking podcast. Here is Brian Eno speaking with Sims creator Will Wright about asynchronous loops: “Instead of trying to design a piece from the top down, which is what you normally think of as composition – you know, you sort of build it [...]

Now What?

In Poetics, Termite on 8 October 2007 with 4 comments

A recent podcast interview with Adrian, gets me thinking about what he calls “minor video” or “minor cinema.” The value of the miniature in a networked world. The battle for attention, screen space, hits, ratings as modeled on youtube will, Adrian predicts, subside within six years. We are experiencing the growing pains of a new [...]

Professor VJ

In 'Pataphysical, Handmade, Poetics, Ritual, Termite on 10 August 2007 with no comments

In bed with a bad back and consuming the archives of Mark Amerika aka Professor VJ. He is making cinema and modeling a spontaneous, intuitive way of working through his blog. Mysterious, body-centered, "not-me" explorations with actors, landscapes, camera and editing tools – nutritious fodder for ambitious art vloggers. And not to mention an important [...]