The usefulness of this text in reference to our current project and our works as New Media artists is to underline the necessity for thoughtful reconfiguration of pre-existing material.
The authors urge us to go beyond a "negation of a negation" (which yields no forward momentum), and realize that conscious and unconscious connections will be drawn between any two points that are presented.
from the series "Blackatcha" by Mark Steven Greenfield
"TOY WITH COLLECTIVE MEMORY!"
"REVEAL OUR TIRED IDEOLOGIES BASED IN MYTH AND PREJUDICE!"
they say.
These notions present challenges within themselves. They require recognition and understanding of collective memory, individual history, the powers of rule, class structure etc.
1. How do you recreate a discordance of self within another?
a.) honesty b.) trust c.) comedy d.) whatever
Another interesting tidbit mentioned was how "comical effects are a result of contradictions within a condition whose existence is taken for granted."
Suffice to say, that sometimes when you're laughing, it's because you can't deal.
video by the former film collective "everynone"
Also, the notion of "ultra détournment" or the everyday reconfiguration of gestures and words to mean alternate things is something I find fascinating. I especially am fond of this because it requires shared acknowledgement and appropriation of the term or gesture.
"Pop Lock and Drop It" by Huey
This being due to the tendancy towards play (#gametheorybrah) and clothing being equally as playful in creating character or disguise is the bomb and is something I would like to further investigate with my artz.
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