remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from: the devil’s rope journal + janus + _thing

source files: janus2010_CS3.fla or janus2010_fl8.fla (2.9MB)

remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from: dr ted orion morrow’s business card + Worx + Fitting the Pattern

flash8 source: sizingUp_fl8.fla (204 KB)

remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from: rawVamp + Blood And The Moon + The NPAC/OLDA Visible Human Viewer + sound by dagading

flash source for remixing: couplings_fl8.fla (3.2 MB)

remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from: classy joint + Toni Lebusque + recycling bellini

My friend Toni Lebusque is an artist who makes images with pen and pastels as well as digital media and lately she’s been inscribing her wonderful drawings into her flesh. I’ve never been tempted to get a tattoo myself, I’m far too variable, but I can relate to that desire to embody, to embolden the body, to flesh out, to be art in the flesh. It feels somehow connected, although diametrically different, to what draws me in much of my creative work – bringing viscera and flesh into the virtual, see: rawVamp, rawLorem Ipsum, IntraVenus or couplings.

So what do I do? I turn Toni’s tattoos electronic. Well, there’s no ‘arm in it, is there? (sorry;-)

flash source for remixing: bananarma_CS3.fla or bananarma_fla8.fla

Above are thumbnails of the R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX set I presented at ePoetry 2009 in Barcelona. A combination of still images and animations accompanied by a playlist (see below) of music, ambient sound and spoken word pieces from the remix, plus a live reading of two poems from reVamp to end reUser.

I was on a great panel with Brian Kim Stefans, Serge Bouchardon and Jody Zellen, who all gave impressive presentations – very enjoyable too! Chris Funkhouser chaired the session, which was particularly fitting as far as I was concerned because later he presented a stimulating paper about ‘Creative Cannibalism’ – the way many electronic poems, remixes and mash-ups eat other texts and/or digital data. This kind of cultural anthropophagy (cannibalism) was first practiced by Brazilian artists nearly a century ago and for 50 years has been a feature of much computer-generated poetry. Funkhouser maintains that:

in recent years the potential content and media of such cannibalistic approaches to creativity has expanded wildly with the growth and capabilities of the Web.

Since R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX is a particularly cannibalistic beast, I hunted down his paper from the previous ePoetry 2007 symposium, where he first put forward these ideas, Le(s) Mange Texte(s): Creative Cannibalism and Digital Poetry (download). Here’s a brief section from it:

Transformative expression appropriates given data then warps or reconfigures it to new ends. Such a method certainly corresponds, or perhaps responds, to Dadaist techniques of appropriation, and also corresponds to the type of cannibalism seen in examples of digital poetry. An anthropophagic text, in which the author or authors engage with multiple languages or idioms, devours other texts, icons, and is free to remix discrepant methods and philosophical approaches. Discovery and re-discovery of meaning is reached through the cannibalization of texts, which may then establish alternative perspectives on cultural or personal subjects taken up by authors in textual composition, re-composition, and composting. Through anthropophagy, artists are free to reshape external influences. This open acknowledgment of plurality is what makes the concept still relevant today, as an active principle for the creation of “difference.”

That certainly gives me a lot of food for remixing thought! As I said a year ago in my article about the R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX experience:

the remix machine, of which we are all part, devours whatever is given and regurgitates it in wonderfully unexpected ways.

ePoetry remix audio playlist:
verb
codecs mash
screw
GlassOnBotReverb
Falling
Look Inside
outpost msg
binnorie_babel_beetle
IntraMusicPulse
ambientDigestion
dragonbath2
SwirlBotXXclips
dragobaC-1

remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from: [e]mailart [ first editions ] + cogignition + comment #11349 + GhouLs

source files: emailartstamps-CS3.fla or emailartstamps-fl8.fla (flash 8 version)

remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from rawVamp + loremipsum2 + The NPAC/OLDA Visible Human Viewer + (!) + ode to XL5 + section 1.10.32 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum”, written by Cicero in 45 BC, translated by H. Rackham in 1914, from Lorem Ipsum

source: rawLoremIP_CS3.fla (1.3mb)

remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from reVamped + reVamp to end reUser + comment 11396 + The NPAC/OLDA Visible Human Viewer

flash source: rawVamp_CS3.fla (806kb)

what chance for the characters cloning clouds
at the codecs concrete conference?
and if copulation with a cow, paid for by cowboy credit
makes cyberbaby, who cries for dada daddy?

such a dangerous world of decay and digital debris
only Dirac and the doppelganger dragons from Dresden
laying dynamic Earth eggs
are electronic with emotion exploding

‘oh inevitable eye eye!’ says candy fair
falling for the piano film crew
‘fine print’ replies fritz through his frogs frost fume
‘gimme the gothic graffiti gun, i ice imaginary media’
and so stamps immigrant ink on kung fu Kurt

leonardo with his line dancing lizards in london
is longing for love
but Madeleine and Mark mashup max
under the mondrian money moon
and Mr Jones plays musicals for the mutant Muybridge

narrative on the new screen in the northern hemisphere
lights numbers for Orpheus in his outerspace outhouse
so he plots permutations to pilfer pixelpost planets
before plumbing the poetry of his politics primer

all quiet on the railway, Ralph the reptile robot
ruins runran, saying scratch screw scriptorium!
and seagulls semaphore semiotics for shadow sheep
despite the shenanigans of spaceman and spacewoman
who spam splash splatter the spoken word spook

sshh!

terror text things touch trash
in the underground universe of election variations
and the vendor of verse sells wallpaper
with words x and y

remixed for R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX from the tag cloud 8 March 2009