Found this on a wired site… http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/intro.html

Modernism, it’s a hard act to follow. L.H.O.O.Q. or Mona Lisa Marcel Duchamp, 1919 The Fountain Marcel Duchamp, 1917 What are some of the basic tenants of Post-Modernism? How does it differ from modernism? Have them answer from the Jameson Reading. This is included in order to suggest that many of the following art-works helped shape post-modern discourse.

Rose Hobart by Joseph Cornell, 1936 Rose Hobart (1936 USA 17mins) Rose Hobart consists almost entirely of footage taken from East of Borneo, a 1931 jungle B-film starring the nearly forgotten actress Rose Hobart. Cornell condensed the 77-minute feature into a 20-minute short, removing virtually every shot that didn't feature Hobart, as well as all of the action sequences. Played at 16 frames per second, though the orginal was shot at 24 frames and tinted blue. To reference early cinema. Though the film originally had sound the “recut” is accompanied by a tape of "Forte Allegre" and "Belem Bayonne" from Nestor Amaral's Holiday in Brazil, a kitschy record Cornell found in a Manhattan junk store. The relationship should discussed between this film and surrealism. This could be one of the earliest examples of cinematic remix, although it is not well recognized/ did not have a major impact because cornell restricted it’s public screenings. Rose Hobart goes on to be featured in many of Cornell’s later works.

How to make a Dadaist Poem, 1920 Tristan Tzara <------ (so 1337!) *see below OVERKILL "Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next take out each cutting one after the other. Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. The poem will resemble you. And there you are -- an infinitely original author of charming sensibility *even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd." Who knows something about Tristan Tzara already? Founder of dada movement. Wrote Dada Manifesto Sept manifests Dada (Seven Dada Manifestos) (1924). The cut-up method had it’s roots in early Dada sound poems. At a internal linksurrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat. A riot ensued and wrecked the theater. Andre Breton expelled Tristan Tzara from the movement. Activities at Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich) often ended in chaos and violence mirroring the violence of WWI period.

The Cut-Up Method with… Everyone’s favorite guys! Brion Gysin, William S Burroughs and Ian Sommerville. By treating segmented pages of text as collage material, the new arrangements created limitless possibilities of prose. A second seminal technique pursued by Gysin was of a more focused and elegant nature: the permutation. By taking a single phrase and running through all existing possibilities of order, whole realms of implied meanings became apparent. William S Burroughs was a famous novelist, the heir to an adding machine fortune. Also in the 1950s painter and writer Brion Gysin more fully developed the cut-up method after accidentally discovering it. From working on canvas and paper, Gysin took the obvious continuation of his ideas to audio tape. With the help of mathematician Ian Sommerville, cut-up and permutated recordings demonstrated the true potential of those theories. Audio cut-ups presented the startling impact of linking words, sounds and time through juxtaposition. The development of the audio PERMUTATION POEM added variability through spacing and inflection which provided characteristics that were impossible on the printed page. Watch excerpt of Burroughs film where he talks about the Cut-ups.

The Future of the Novel, of the novel future, and William S. Burroughs Wife shooting seems to be the leitmotif of this class Brion Gysin and William S Burroughs the Cut Up Method and the Folding Method The folding method: Burroughs compared this to the flash forward/flash back in cinema. According to Gysin writing was 50 years behind other media like painting, which had long used collage. Burroughs argued that, “…to travel in space is to travel in time-- If writers are to travel in space time and explore areas opened by the space age, I think they must develop techniques quite as new and definite as the techniques of physical space travel--Certainly if writing is to have a future it must at least catch up with the past and learn to use techniques that have been used for some time past in painting, music and film..” The Word Hoard: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Ticket That Exploded, also referred to as "The Nova Trilogy" or "the Nova Epic", self-described by Burroughs as an attempt to create "a mythology for the space age". Naked Lunch: The book follows the adventures of William Lee (aka Lee the Agent) who is the writer of the book and Burrough's alter ego. His journey takes him from the US where he is fleeing the police, into Mexico, Tangier, and eventually Interzone a dystopian world where much of the action takes place. Because of the cut-up technique used to create the novel and the way in which time is portrayed, the plot of is not as formal as most novels and can jump in space and time in just a sentence, this means that the book has many plots, all of which are happening at the same time, the reader only seeing part of the picture - as much as Burrough's wants to share.

Just give him the chance… John Cage and the music of changes John Cage - chance compositions , I-ching What is I-Ching? also called “Book of Changes” or “Classic of Changes” one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts.[1] The book is a symbol system used to identify order in chance events. The text describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy that centers on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change (see Philosophy, below). Music of Changes for solo piano in 1951, to determine which notes should be used and when they should sound. The score consisted of lines, running horizontally and some vertically across the page of all different length. The performer must determine the speed, pitch, clef, and length of each note based on what he perceived the line to instruct. He used chance in other ways as well; Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) is written for twelve radio receivers. Each radio has two players; one to control the frequency the radio is tuned to, the other to control the volume level. Cage wrote very precise instructions in the score about how the performers should set their radios and change them over time, but he could not control the actual sound coming out of them, which was dependent on whatever radio shows were playing at that particular place and time of performance. Such pieces as the Variations series paradoxically placed great responsibility in the hands of the performer in the demands the music made in terms of realizing indeterminate (chance) procedures. When applied to the often-conservative infrastructure of the symphony orchestra, in pieces such as the Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958) and Atlas Eclipticalis (1961), Cage’s radical demands resulted in markedly hostile performer reactions. Music of Changes for solo piano in 1951

Example of instructions for the Music of Change

Nam June Paik Prepared W.C. 1963 at Galerie Parnass Nam June Paik «Random Access Music: Exposition of Music – Electronic Television» In this tape installation, Paik went one step further: the visitor can use the sound head, which has been detached from the tape recorder, to interactively run through the tapes glued to the wall, and constantly vary the sound sequence according to location and speed. This random access to the musical raw material enabled visitors to produce compositions of their own.

Going where no man has gone before… Star Trek and the invention of the fanzine Star Trek - fanzines the Star Trek fandom and fanzines published in the 1960s. The first Star Trek fanzine, Spockanalia, was published in 1967 and contained some fan fiction. Many of the early 'zines were produced by chapters of the Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans and included fan fiction inspired not only by Star Trek but also Mission: Impossible, in which Nimoy co-starred for several years after Star Trek was cancelled. Most of these fanzines were reproduced via mimeograph, and a few (such as Babel) by offset printing. The 1970s saw an expansion of fan fiction distribution and laid the foundations of the modern subculture surrounding the genre. Grup, the first Trek fanzine oriented toward sexually-explicit fan fiction, was originally published in 1972. In 1974, Grup #3 published "A Fragment Out of Time", the first known "slash" (homoerotic) story to be published in a fanzine. This is important to note in the development of the remix, because it denotes a specific cultural moment where popular culture began to be remixed/remashed by the general public. Spockanalia, was published in 1967

Animal Charm is Computer Smart (and TV) Animal Charm Videoworks: Volume 1 Compilation 00:19:00 This compilation is a fresh, witty, and compelling addition to video's rich legacy of media deconstruction. Through appropriation and reassemblage, these intriguing works upset the hypnotic spectacle of TV viewing by displacing its logic and forcing viewers to make new connections among its codes and conventions. While this disruption is playful, it also reveals the tragic underbelly of corporate message-making—the way it appropriates and suppresses nature and "unpredictability," the way it preys on human vulnerability, and the way it shamelessly celebrates mediocrity and distraction. Total running time 19:00. Animal Charm is the collaborative project of Rich Bott and Jim Fetterley, sound and media artists. Assuming a deconstructive take on propriety, Animal Charm began creating videos as an act of Electronic Civil Disobedience. Diving the dumpsters of video production companies and scrounging through countless hours of industrial, documentary, and corporate video footage, Animal Charm often edits the tapes in live mix performances. By re-editing images derived from a wide variety of sources, they scramble media codes, creating a kind of convulsive babble that disrupts conventional forms with subversive messages.

Give me the Mermaid egativland and Tim Maloney "Gimme the Mermaid" Quicktime video, 2002, 5 min. A new short from the band Negativland, with help from Disney animator Tim Maloney, who created this using his employer's equipment after hours. "Mermaid" combines the sound of a music industry lawyer with the voice of the Little Mermaid and Negativland's helium-tinged cover of Black Flag's "Gimme Gimme Gimme." The video appears on the band's release, No Business, available via Stay Free! Also check out the band's website.

Word Star! Welcome to the digital age! Use this to introduce the digital remix… very popular digital cut-up editing is introduced to a mass audience By the mid-1980s WordStar was the most popular word processing software in the world. But IBM dominated the "dedicated word processor" market with its "DisplayWrite" application, which ran on machines dedicated to writing and editing documents. There were many dedicated word processing machines at the time, but IBM's main competition was Wang Laboratories. Such machines were expensive and were generally accessed through terminals connected to central mainframe or midrange computers. Also maybe note demoscene - Word Star! Welcome to the digital age!

What’s the difference? Remix in the digital age? Discussion and maybe look at… DJ spooky - http://www.djspooky.com/articles/errata.php http://www.djspooky.com/art.php http://www.moca.org/museum/digital_gallery/pmiller/opener.html Anemic Cinema http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8307191714722163759

I can haz new materpiece? This work was exhibited at Inman Gallery Annex, in Houston, TX as a new artwork by Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan He has been called the duchamp of our time. The first, they said, should be sweet like love; the second bitter, like life; and the third soft, like death La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour)

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The part of the class we enjoy! History is so boring, good thing we made it to the present. Now we can watch Youtube! http://www.thetrailermash.com/shining-romantic-comedy/ http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z11B9L2awVA Note that in a way these represent mashups of mashups because trailers are re-edits of films to begin with. Following this I screened Craig Baldwin and we talked about the intent of the work, and how it was informed by the process.