26.9.10
GLI.TC/H in Chicago 2010.09.29-2010.10.03
GLI.TC/H BUMP from Max Capacity on Vimeo.
GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010!
GLI.TC/H features: realtime audio & video performances with artists who misuse and abuse hardware and software; run-time video screenings of corrupt data, decayed media, and destroyed files; workshops and skill-share-sessions highlighting the wrong way to use and build tools; a gallery show examining glitches as processes, systems, and objects; all in the context of ongoing dialogues that have been fostered by experimentation, research, and play. GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly which stands testament to the energy surrounding these conversations.
Projects take the form of: artware, videos, games, films, tapes, code, interventions, prints, plugins, screen-captures, systems, websites, installations, texts, tools, lectures, essays, code, articles, & hypermedia.
JOIN THE DISCUSSION ON THE
GLI.TC/H BLOG
web click here
24.9.10
Hacking attitude
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
she said it was not the day before yesterday but the one becoming the tuessssday dayday
Cyberfeminism 101
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Notes on Knowledge Economy from Cyberfeminsm
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities Carolyn Guertin
for the whole discussion click here
... further discussion of Carolyn Guertin's "From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities
"click here
smart mistakes nice new works ... and a prize
Smart Mistakes and the Short List for Share Prize 2010.
2nd?7th November, 2010
Regional Museum of Natural Science
Turin, Italy
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Every year, the Share Festival chooses a special topic to focus on, to
help broaden our minds, sharpen our skills, and inspire creative
expression. So don?t miss this year?s festival from 2nd?7th November,
2010 in Turin!
Smart Mistakes ? Share Festival 2010
ERROR, mistake, mutation, failure, dysfunction, discrepancy, accident,
unexpected change, chance discovery, the aesthetics of error, mass
waste, project failure, abandon project, disaster, flaw, inconvenience,
misappropriation, side-effect, slip-up, flop.
This year, the VI Piemonte Share Festival will be focusing on the
artistic and cultural significance of mistake, in all its broader
senses. The creative potential of analysing and looking into what lies
behind an error is truly great, as it represents the uncovering of an
issue. Which is of particular interest in this year of global
emergencies. The issue uncovered then demands attention, which in turn
elicits controversy, while it is controversy that generates solutions
and innovation.
In the art and culture of our digital age, does mistake still play the
role of instigating change and activating value?
Share Prize 2010
Now are you ready to discover the group of artists called to Turin to
take part in a Share Festival?
Some 270 projects from 20 countries were submitted for consideration for
the Share Prize 2010. The aim of the Share Prize is to discover, promote
and support the digital arts. The competition is open to artists that
use digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all
shapes and formats.
The cultural aim of the Share Prize is to make participation in the
Share Festival open and accessible to all artists.
An international panel of judges consisting of Jurij Krpan (Ljubljana),
Andy Cameron (London), Fulvio Gianaria (Turin), and Bruce Sterling
(Austin/Turin) assessed the submissions. After a very interesting
meeting and a professional, in-depth analysis of all the works, it is
with great pleasure that we announce the six incredible artists who have
been short-listed for the Share Prize 2010.
Read the judges? statement here
The prize winners will be announced at the Share Prize award ceremony on
7th November, 2010 at the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin.
Kuai Auson (EC), 0h!m1gas (2008)
0h!m1gas is a biomimetic stridulation environment, based on the activity
of an ant colony under video and audio surveillance, transforming the
ants into DJs and creating a sound-reactive space which reveals the
connection between scratching, as an aesthetical expression created by
human culture, and the stridulation phenomena produced by ants as a
communication mechanism.
http://kuaishen.tv/0hm1gas
Perry Bard (CDN), Man with a Movie Camera (2007)
Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video shot
by people around the world who are invited to record images interpreting
the original script of Vertov?s Man with a Movie Camera, and upload them
to http://dziga.perrybard.net, where software developed specifically for
this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film.
http://dziga.perrybard.net
Sonia Cillari (IT), As an artist, I need to rest (2009)
The artist is lying still on the floor of the exhibition space, exhaling
through a very long cable, which departs from inside her left nostril
and ends at the centre of the main screen, suspended from the floor. A
digital creature which she calls 'feather' is entirely generated by her
exhaling into the suspended screen. During the performance, Sonia
Cillari exhales 14,000 digital elements and brings the digital feather
into more than 6 different states of beings, from 'addition' to
'resistance' patterns of life.
http://www.soniacillari.net/AaA-IntR_dedicated.htm
Ernesto Klar (IT/VE/USA), Luzes relacionais (2009-10)
Luzes relacionais" (Relational Lights) is an interactive audiovisual
installation that explores our relationship with the
expressional-organic character of space. The installation uses light,
sound, haze, and a custom-software system to create a morphing,
three-dimensional light-space in which spectators actively participate,
manipulating it with their presence and movements. "Luzes relacionais"
is pays homage to the work and aesthetic inquiry of Brazilian artist
Lygia Clark.
http://www.klaresque.org/luzes_video.mov
knowbotic research (CH), Macghillie_ just a void (2009-10)
In the public performance project MacGhillie, urban sites are visited by
a figure, clad in a camouflage suit, who shows neither the traits of an
individual, or even of a person. The so-called Ghillie Suit was
originally invented in the 19th century for hunting and was later also
used during the First World War (bis heute). Its camouflage anonymizes
and neutralises of the person who wears it in public. The figure
oscillates between the hyperpresence of a mask and visual redundancy.
http://krcf.org/krcf.org/?p=249
Teatrino Elettrico (IT), DC12V (2009)
DC12V is a board-game version of elektrolivecircus. Sounds are generated
using analogue instruments only, recordings of movements, percussion,
friction and the electromagnetic fields of various everyday machines.
Small in converted into big, futile into necessary, objects into
personages, the board into a location. A desktop tragedy in one act for
self-propelled machines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idaVeVj7ZMc
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Share Festival 2010
2/7 NOVEMBRE 2010
Associazione "The Sharing"
Via Rossini 3
10124 Torino
tel. 011 5883693
fax.0118391304
23.9.10
scoring the play - Rosemarie Fiore
Long exposure photographs of videogames by (for more click) Rosemarie Fiore:
“These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. The photographs were shot from video game screens while I played the games. By recording each second of an entire game on one frame of film, I captured complex patterns not normally seen by the eye.”
the dancing/stutter'n ineffable by alan sondheim
(it takes a while to upload worth the patience)
inviolable, inviolate, legendary, marvelous, mythical, noncommunicable,
exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, heavenly, holy, ideal, happiness";
untouchable, unutterable, unwhisperable, venerable, wonderful "unutterable
contempt"; "a thing of untellable splendor", incommunicable, expression or
description; "indefinable yearnings"; "indescribable awesome, awful, cele-
stial, divine, empyreal, empyrean, ethereal, beauty"; transcendent, tran-
scendental, undefinable, unexampled, unmentionable, indefinable, indescri-
bable, inenarrable, inexpressible, innominable, "ineffable ecstasy"; "in-
expressible anguish"; "unspeakable defying unnameable, unparalleled, un-
precedented, unspeakable, untellable, noteworthy, numinous, phenomenal,
portentous, prodigious, religious, remarkable, sacred, sacrosanct, spiri-
tual, stupefying, stupendous, {indescribable}, {unspeakable}, {untella-
ble}, {unutterable}] abstract tiny little elusive object of no consequence
but moving alan dojoji to hir inescapable unreachable destiny, only one
s/he has decided for hirself, no one else has made this journey for hir
Humlab, Sandy Baldwin, Alan Sondheim
Alan Dojoji avatar responding to 'go to' command but constantly thwarted;
s/he is also controlled by several altered mocap animations. The result is
a constant skittering motion, achieving nothing - the condition of the
fan, or anyone relegated to a problematic subaltern relation to visible
signs of in-visible power.
Affective Encounters in Feminist Media- conference papers
Puustinen, “Gender for Sale. Advertising Design as Technologies of Gender.” In Koivunen & Paasonen (eds.), Affective Encounters. Rethinking Embodiment in Feminist Media Studies. http://www.utu.fi/hum/mediatutkimus/affective/proceedings.html.
21.9.10
100 anti-thesis to cyberfeminism
100 anti-theses
cyberfeminism is not ...
- cyberfeminism is not a fragrance
- cyberfeminism is not a fashion statement
- sajbrfeminizm nije usamljen
- cyberfeminism is not ideology
- cyberfeminism nije aseksualan
- cyberfeminism is not boring
- cyberfeminism ist kein gruenes haekeldeckchen
- cyberfeminism ist kein leerer kuehlschrank
- cyberfeminism ist keine theorie
- cyberfeminism ist keine praxis
- cyberfeminism ist keine traditio
- cyberfeminism is not an institution
- cyberfeminism is notusing words without any knowledge of numbers
- cyberfeminism is not complete
- cyberfeminism is not error 101
- cyberfeminism ist kein fehler
- cyberfeminism ist keine kunst
- cyberfeminism is not an ism
- cyberfeminism is not anti-male
- sajbrfeminizm nige nesto sto znam da je
- cyberfeminism is not a structure
- cyberfeminismo no es uns frontera
- cyberfeminism nije poslusan
- cyberfeminism nije apolitican
- cyberfeminisme is niet concreet
- cyberfeminism is not separatism
- cyberfeminism is not a tradition
- cyberfeminism is not maternalistic
- cyberfeminisme id niet iets buitenlands
- cyberfeminism is not without connectivity
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht mehr wegzudenken
- cyberfeminismus ist kein oxymoron
- cyberfeminism is not on sale
- cyberfeminism is nor for sale
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht gut
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht schlecht
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht modern
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht post-modern
- cyberfeminism is not natural
- cyberfeminism is not essentialist
- cyberfeminism is not abject
- cyberfeminism is not an avatar
- cyberfeminism is not an alter ego
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht truegerisch
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht billig
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht willig
- cyberfeminisme n'est pas jaloux
- cyberfeminism is not exclusive
- cyberfeminism is not solid
- cyberfeminism is not genetic
- cyberfeminismus ist keine entschuldigung
- cyberfeminism is not prosthetic
- cyberfeminismo no tiene cojones
- cyberfeminisme n'est pas triste
- cyberfeminisme n'est pas une pipe
- cyberfeminism is not a motherboard
- cyberfeminism is not a fake
- cyberfeminism nije ogranicen
- cyberfeminism nije nekonfliktan
- cyberfeminism nije make up
- cyberfeminism nije zatvoren prozor
- cyberfeminism is not a lack
- cyberfeminism is not a wound
- cyberfeminism is not a trauma
- cyberfeminismo no es una banana
- cyberfeminism is not a sure shot
- cyberfeminism is not an easy mark
- cyberfeminism is not a single woman
- cyberfeminism is not romantic
- cyberfeminism is not post-modern
- cyberfeminism is not a media-hoax
- cyberfeminism is not neutral
- cyberfeminism is not lacanian
- cyberfeminism is not nettime
- cyberfeminism is not a picnic
- cyberfeminism is not a coldfish
- cyberfeminism is not a cyberepilation
- cyberfeminism is not a horror movie
- cyberfeminism is not science fiction
- cyberfeminism is not artificial intelligence
- cyberfeminism is not an empty space
- cyberfeminism is not immobile
- cyberfeminism is not about boring toys for boring boys
- cyberfeminismus ist keine verlegenheitsloesung
- cyberfeminism is not a one-way street
- cyberfeminism is not supporting quantum mechanics
- cyberfeminism is not caffeine-free
- cyberfeminism is not a non-smoking area
- cyberfeminism is not daltonistic
- cyberfeminism is not nice
- cyberfeminismo no es callado
- cyberfeminism is not lady.like
- cyberfeminismus ist nicht arrogant
- cyberfeminismus ist keine nudelsauce
- cyberfeminism is not mythical
- cyberfeminism is not from outer space
- cyberfeminismo no es rock 'n roll
- cyberfeminism is not dogmatic
- cyberfeminism is not stable
- cyberfeminism has not only one language
re.act.feminism exhib
quote from their web site
The curators’ intention was to extend the perspective beyond the canon of the known and familiar in order to demonstrate the diversity and complexity of (feminist) performative strategies. This included performance movements in Eastern and South Eastern Europe as well as the former GDR (since the beginning of the 1980s) which often developed parallel to and independent of ‘western art’.
The artistic avant-garde of the 1960s and 70s, including feminist performance art, are currently regaining attention among a younger generation of artists and also among institutions. There are several reasons for this interest. On the one hand it reflects the (institutional) desire for the historicisation of performance as an ephemeral art form. On the other hand there seems to be a need of a younger generation to actively appropriate history and –so our thesis– a search for radical artistic expressions reflecting and stimulating social change.
The “return of performance art” seems to be a paradoxical notion. Performance art developed in a time of global awakening in the 1960s and 70s as an ephemeral, process-based art form, in which the body and the actions of artists, and sometimes also those of audiences, became the artistic medium. Performance art opposed notions of object-based art and related strategies of commodification and often left the traditional art institutions, galleries and museums. Performance was therefore understood as embedded in the now, the present moment, and therefore haunted by disappearance, as Peggy Phelan’s has famously stated:
"Performance’s only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance. … Performance’s being ... becomes itself through disappearance." (Peggy Phelan, Unmarked, 1993)
However, as many authors have claimed successively performance does not only exist in the live act, but is often intrinsically linked to its recording and reaches a broader audience only through its traces and documentation. Authors such as Paul Clarke and Rebecca Schneider have elaborated further that there might even be a liveness to these traces, documents and recordings, as well as to the process of transmission:
Documents – so their thesis- are mostly produced intentionally for posterity, for a future reading and handling and their liveness lies in this future encounter, in the live circulation and reception, which is anticipated in its live production. The documents and traces, the mythologies and stories may trigger phantasies and inspire to re-enact, re-perform or re-act.
The exhibition re.act.feminism focussed on this contradictory relationship between the live act and its traces and documents, the fragmentary archives and the live reception, and reflected on how (performance)history can be reconstructed and a possible future 'invented'.
Bettina Knaup, Beatrice E. Stammer
20.9.10
Lyotard and The Sound of Silence: Film Music and Lament by Reni Celeste
quote...'For the cinema, there is no greater resource than the pop song. Behind each melancholic lament, raging riff, drumbeat, and guitar solo is the laughter of Dionysus, the tragic jester of ultimate loss.
Francois Lyotard draws a parallel between music and primordial loss and fear. Music is the site of deep paradoxes. It struggles to leave a trace of something audible that goes beyond the audible. Lyotard speaks of a passage from Pascal Quignard entitled "Language" that describes the sound of a collective fear that renders all language secondary. "All the languages of the world seem secondary with regard to this lament of hunger, distress, loneliness, death, and danger."18 Lyotard finds in music the deepest expression of the bestial lament over immortality. "The breath is a wind of terror: one is going to be no more. We cannot 'hear' it, but it is not mute. It puts 'exactly nothing between your teeth.'" This is not merely certain kinds of music, but music in general. "No matter how clear the phrases of the clearest music might be, they bellow forth fright in secret."19 In this sense, the work of art can never be reduced to its cultural or empirical context. He explains that
If the work of art is, it is because it bears witness to something in excess of what the body can sense, of what is sensible and circumscribed by the (biological, cultural) institutions of the body. [...] This excess is already at the very origins of sensation. Sensation is not only the reception of useful contextual information, it is also in its immediacy the reminder of a threat. The body does not belong to you, it is sensible only insofar as it is exposed to the other thing, deprived of its self-distinction, in danger of annihilation. It is sensible only as lamentable.20This makes the aesthetic realm a distinction that is only possible through the figure of extinction and its lament. As he describes it, "The body is passible because it has doors and they are open. What enters through the body, sensations, aesthesis, is not just the form of an object, it's the anguish of being full of holes."21 Differences between the various arts, he explains, are only different ways the body has of being threatened with loss. "Aesthetics is phobic, it arises from anesthesia, belonging to it, recovering from it."22 This description of the "breath of lament" puts music at the very core of being. These holes in the body that Lyotard describes as the senses threaten the border between inside and outside. Like a character from an Edgar Allan Poe tale suffereing from a "heightening of the senses,"23 one can imagine being killed by an odor or sound. Music does not fill the lack opened by the visual. It is the lack itself. That we can distinguish ourselves from music is merely a cultural knowledge or function of language.' for more click here
Susan Hiller's Last Silent Movie- wonderful work
click here
19.9.10
Promiscuous Language
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
important!!! keep the net neutral...
A message from Ruth passes on....
Hi Folks,
This came through from P2P list vial the opennetcoalition
It sets out a pretty clear argument and a suggestion for action.
It does seem that on matters of digital commons the voices of
(non-corporate) citizens are either inaudible or unintelligible to
policy makers at the moment.
What do you reckon?
cheers
Ruth
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/make-your-voice-heard-on-net-neutrality
Make you voice heard by responding to the European Commission's public
consultation on Net neutrality! The more citizens and NGOs submit their
own responses to the questionnaire, the more chance we have to
collectively weigh in the EU policy-making process to ensure that the
Internet remains a free and open communications architecture. You have
until September 30th to send your submission and tell the Commission to
protect the Internet.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/doc/library/public_consult/net_neutrality/nn_questionnaire.pdf
*** Why you should send your own submission to the Commission?
In November 2009, the European Commission released a ?Declaration on Net
neutrality? in which it said it would report to the Parliament and
Council before the end of 2010[1]. Before doing so, the Commission wants
to hear from stakeholders and has launched a questionnaire in this
purpose[2]. But big telecoms corporations as well as copyright lobbies
are hand in hand to push for the end of neutrality so as to boost their
commercial revenues, and there is no doubt that they will answer to the
Commission's consultation.
If they have their way, the intense innovation and democratic
participation enabled by the Internet would be harmed, as Internet
Access Providers would increasingly discriminate against certain types
of data flowing through their networks to develop new business models
based on traffic prioritization. They could asphyxiate potential
competitors and further expand their ties with powerful content
industries able and willing to pay in order to benefit from unfair
priority on the Internet. Such practices would stifle innovation and
hinder the development of new efficient business models that fully rip
the benefits of the digital economy. They would also undermine diversity
and pluralism in the new information ecosystem, which are both
fundamental characteristics of the Internet and represent a historical
contribution to our democracies. In order to safeguard the freedom of
communication that all Internet users enjoy nowadays, citizens and NGOs
all across Europe must massively tell the Commission to put the public
interest first and protect the common-good nature of the Internet.
*** How to to draft your submission?
It's up totally to you:
* You can address the questions of your choice, since you are not
required to answer the whole questionnaire.
* You can write in the language in which you're most comfortable.
Any language spoken in the European Union is acceptable.
* There is no requirement regarding the length of the document.
As you will see, the consultation is comprised of 15 questions, which
cover current discriminatory practices, traffic prioritization, ?managed
services?[3], consumers rights as well as other topics. Obviously, some
of them are quite technical, but again you don't have to answer all the
questions. Question 15[4], for instance, appears to be broad enough for
any citizen to express their views to the Commission regarding their
attachment to the principle of Net neutrality and how best to protect
it.
Although we can't prejudge the content of the forthcoming report,
submissions from citizens and civil society organizations will be highly
needed. Indeed, the questions' wording suggests that the Commission is
not necessarily keen on enacting regulations that would enshrine the
principle of network neutrality in European law. The Commission tends to
think that the provisions of the Telecoms Package ? which establish
transparency so that consumers can switch access providers if the latter
is messing up with the Internet traffic ? is in and of itself enough to
protect Internet users. This is not sufficient to guarantee fundamental
freedoms. First of all, competition between providers is far from being
a reality in many areas of the EU. Second, nothing would prevent all
providers to start discriminating their traffic. That's why we need a
pro-active stance on Net neutrality, with the adoption of ad hoc
regulations to protect this principle.
*** Where can you find relevant resources to draft your submission?
Here is where you can find some resources as well as background
information to help you draft your response to the Commission:
* Web-dossier on Net neutrality
* Report on ?Protecting Net neutrality in Europe?, released last
fall during the debate on the Telecoms Package
* Answers to the werebuild.eu survey on the open Net
* Brief: ?It is crucial to save Net Neutrality!?
* Report (in French only): ?Garantir la neutralit? du Net?
* La Quadrature du Net will publish its own answer as soon as it is
submitted and invites every NGO and citizen to do the same.
Much more information is available on the Web on the matter. In
particular, organizations such as Free Press, Public Knowledge or the
EFF extensively covered this issue in the United States.
Together we can act to make sure that Net neutrality regulation becomes
a reality:
Send your submission to INFSO-NETNEUTRALITY(at)ec.europa.eu by Thursday,
September 30th!
1.
http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Commission_Declaration_on_Net_Neutralit...
2. See the Commission's press release:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/860&format...
3. ?Managed services refer to communications networks for which specific
characteristics may be guaranteed by the network operator. They are
distinct from the ?best-effort? Internet
4. Question 15 reads as follows: "Besides the traffic management issues
discussed above, are there any other concerns affecting freedom of
expression, media pluralism and cultural diversity on the Internet? If
so, what further measures would be needed to safeguard those values?"
- --
- --- La Quadrature du Net ---- http://www.laquadrature.net
- --- http://twitter.com/jerezim - http://identi.ca/jerezim
15.9.10
14.9.10
12.9.10
Over at Immedia mention is made of the word Radicant- our new modernism will grow roots
in the article Radicality in Art Today...
quote... 'The French art theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud was there to debate this question (is radicality in art possible today) together with the Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and the Danish academic Michael Bolt, who has been an outspoken sceptic of Bourriaud’s concept of relational aesthetics. Bourriaud’s perspective was that radicality is not possible today because it is impossible to back to the kind of environment of 20th century modernism in which the avant-garde movement could be radical. Bourriaud pointed out that if taking the etymolog of the radical seriously, understood as roots, or going to the origins, radicality today is not possible.
According to Bourriaud we have to give up two attitudes in order to move on. On the one hand we have to give up the attitude of nostalgia of modernism and get rid of the metal trap of post-modernism, or post-everything. The whole post prefix of the last 30 years, resulting in terms such as post structuralism, post colonial, post feminism, post humanism etc., has given us the impression that we are too late, that there really is nothing to be done but to look back and analyse how to handle the effects of the events upon which everything in the present grew out of. Bourriaud proposes instead the concept of the radicant, understood as an organism that grows its roots on the ground, a term better fit for describing where we should go with art from here. Whereas 20th century modernism was radical, our modernism will be radicant, growing roots while it evolves or grows.
The central goal for the art field then, is to break loose from postmodernism and the extreme preoccupation with identity, that in Bourriaud’s account acts as a “war machine”. Identity, according to Bourriaud, is an ideological virus that the political field has been structured around, reducing everything to the question: “Where do you come from?”
To answer this question, it was necessary to show that modernism was not a "movement", like mannerism, or the name of a period. Like Romanticism, it is multifaceted and ambiguous. And it didn't begin in 1880 and end in 1930. Modernism, whenever it began, will always be with us, for it is not primarily a revolution in diction, or a response to industrialisation or the First World War, but is art coming to a consciousness of its limitations and responsibilities.
Article in the New Statesman by Gabriel Josipovici... Modernism still matters
Perhaps they haven't, in the right light, on a good day Flarf could maybe sort of be seen as a new modernist project....? I have been thinking yesterday as I've been browsing and reading articles on Flarf and more than that (always) reading flarfish work itself ... that how like Stein they sound. Stein with her speech fun, blurring 'notions of the real. Stein was flarfing in 1910...
Who else I wonder, well Shakespeare if you read him like that ... not for the dead/dying king (hint hint) story but for the word play... the absorb-ion of 'other' text... but I guess Kafka and Ribalais, Beckett... hmmm needs full-time ruuummmination. Lucky I'm doing a ph-bloody-d!
how bout some definitions ... heres one on flarf from Schotts Vocab printed in the NY Times
quote...'
Flarf
Reporting in The Wall Street Journal on the increasing recognition of “flarf ” poetry, Gautam Naik explained the origins of the trend:
Its the blossoming that matters...
11.9.10
Flarf is a one-trick pony that thinks a unicorn is another kind of horse
Flarf is a one-trick pony that thinks a unicorn is another kind of horse
To read more...338 articles on/at Harriett Poetry Foundation on flarf... click here
Flarfy poetry article on Harriet
Sina Queyras
Flarf is a one-trick pony that thinks a unicorn is another kind of horse
Thanks to Vanessa Place for the following. Given that a few days ago we had the response to this piece offered recently at AWP here on Harriet, it seems important to post the original text for your consideration. I think this clears the matter doesn’t it?1. Conceptualism asks what is poetry?
1. Flarf says sez you!
2. Flarf is never about anything other than poetry itself.
2. Conceptualism is allegorical. It is about things other than poetry itself.
3. Flarf is the court jester. As such, it is still a member of the court.
3. Conceptualism courts jest, but is not the king’s dog.
4. Flarf is composition.
4. Conceptualism is composed.
5. Conceptualism employs a variety of techniques that compromise and complicate the question of excess text, of unreadability, of extra-textual narrativity, of the need for and love of categories and the acategorical, of the false and adored divide between praxis and other praxis, addition and subtraction, theory and things with two types of teeth.
5. Flarf is a one-trick pony that thinks a unicorn is another kind of horse.
6. Flarf is sexual repression on a half-shell. It giggles at dildos.
6. Conceptualism is sexy. The penis is a dildo.
7. Flarf still loves poetry.
7. Conceptualism loves poetry enough to put it out of its misery.
8. Flarf wants to be funny.
8. Conceptualism wants.
9. Flarf maintains a superior attitude towards the world-at-large. Random.
9. Legit.
10. Flarf has one answer to every problem. It involves the spin or schema of interpretation, that is to say, the social construction of a social phenomenon, such as is favored by advertisers and politicians. Thus, its philosophical underpinnings lie primarily in a Platonic premise of a unified ethical and aesthetic field, in the sense that the frame as represented must contain a more or less stable relationship to a larger belief-system, equally stable, preferably central, in order for the frame to function as both relevant to the empirical realities of its potential participants and to the narrative fidelity of the frame itself. Cognitively, the framing-effect involves the amygdala, and thus flarf hits an emotional pitch. The emotional pitch, it could be noted, of the hysteric.
10. Conceptualism has no answers, but is, instead, interrogative. Through the deployment of multiple strategies that serve to destabilize text (extant or made) via reframed reiterations and multiple sites of rhetorical deployment, conceptualism is neo-Kantian, epistemologically concerned with the ongoing sobject and the instantiation of radical evil, in other words, the affirmative will to evil that manifests the fact of will itself. In other words, the instantiation of that which is consciously contra-textual in the sense of all that has made text make contextual sense, the rendering immaterial of every materiality of poetry. The contra-text being the new con-text, con-, as I have pointed out elsewhere, in the sense of being a cunt. Conceptualism is, as the term indicates, primarily a cortical engagement.
11. Flarf is funhouse Freud: the id tweaking the superego.
11. Conceptualism is Lacan in a mirror, the discourse of the slave.
12. Flarf is Freudian in the sense of the drive by way of the virtual dérive. As such, it must be sans satisfaction. Le donné
12. Conceptualism is Lacanian in the sense of desire by way of the Law by way of the petit objet a. As such. La donne
13. Flarf plays Cuzin while playing it off, it speaks to people in people-voice okay, it’s the first to suggest titty beer bong hits and butterscotch Jell-O shots, it wants to stay up late and bitch bitch bitch, it might bleed out but nothing’s permanently stained, it surfs like point break without leaving a wake, it goes Louey-Louey and blows O.C. pretty, it would like you to like it, really?, it wants to be kinda Dada but it’s not that fucking desperate, wants to play it black but mostly lays trick pussy.
13. Flarf plays Cuzin while playing it off, it speaks to people in people-voice okay, it’s the first to suggest titty beer bong hits and butterscotch Jell-O shots, it wants to stay up late and bitch bitch bitch, it might bleed out but nothing’s permanently stained, it surfs like point break without leaving a wake, it goes Louey-Louey and blows O.C. pretty, it would like you to like it, really?, it wants to be kinda Dada but it’s not that fucking desperate, wants to play it black but mostly lays trick pussy.
14. Flarf is a style, a mode as à la as sliced cheese on pie. Those who write flarf write flarf, or, to use their terminology, they write “flarfy” poetry, to be distinguished from regular poetry. Flarfy poetry makes hay where the sun don’t shine. Like baboons copulating in cages at the zoo, flarf fucks inside the glass walls, a show-stopping show, playing to the embarrassed (maybe) or bemused (could be) or the temporarily entertained (probably), it’s kind of natural but nature’s not in it (who me?). In this sense, flarf is a whoopie cushion in the world of the new & old lyric poem.
14. In this sense, conceptualism is a fart.
15. Ron Silliman likes flarf.
15. Ron Silliman does not like conceptualism.
16. Flarf succeeds in doing what it sets its mind to, to upend and offend, to play the hand all the way through. The best flarf is virtuosic.
16. The best conceptualism is failure.
17. Flarf looks like poetry.
17. Poetry looks like conceptualism.
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The New Pandemonium: A Brief Overview of Flarf
quote from Jacket article
This is what you should know--this is not like any other POETRY reading. I mean people heckle and wisecrack and shout and wear bunny ears and pee themselves while crying and screaming ‘Awwwwwwwww Yeah!’ and ‘Cid Corman!’ Bruce Andrews actually laughs in the audience.
'That Flarf did start as a coterie—and that the original intent of the Flarf poets was neither to democratize the world via the Web nor to go undercover as a stupid person who reports back to readers—is clear from Sullivan’s account of the group’s genesis, which also underscores exactly how difficult it is to present Flarf as a viable political intervention. Central to any account of the genesis of Flarf is Sullivan’s poem “Mm-hmm,” which he characterizes as “the most offensive poem I could manage.” Sullivan submitted “Mm-hmm” to the poetry.com website, which is essentially a vanity press that accepts anyone’s work and then seeks to sell the poets bound copies of their work and that of other “winners” (“The Flarf Files”).
Yeah, mm-hmm, it’s true
big birds make
big doo! I got fire inside
my “huppa”-chimp(TM) 5
gonna be agreesive, greasy aw yeah god
wanna DOOT! DOOT!
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffft! hey!
oooh yeah baby gonna shake & bake then take
AWWWWWL your monee, honee (tee hee) 10
uggah duggah buggah biggah buggah muggah
hey! hey! you stoopid Mick! get
off the paddy field and git
me some chocolate Quik
put a Q-tip in it and stir it up sick 15
pock-mocka-chocka-locka-DING-DONG
fuck! shit! piss! oh it’s so sad that
syndrome what’s it called tourette’s
make me HAI-EE! shout out loud
Cuz I love thee. Thank you God, for listening! 20
(“The Flarf Files”)
Ball by Ander Monson... excerpt
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Ander Monson is really interesting his blurb is as follows
...'Inside every thing there is another thing. Inside each self there is another. Crack the I open and another one emerges. The I — even a fictional I like those we find in memoir — is a mine. The book, a mine. It's mine: I should know. This is the website for the book. Superimpose it on the book. Print it out and stuff it in. The book is a static artifact. The website, not so much. There's more here, new tunnels, new considerations, more thinking. It might not be the same when you return. So: think of the website when you think of the book. Start with the book. When you see a word adorned with a dagger (†) in the book, enter it in the box above.'
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