Video from my talk at Ignite DC #2, titled “Becoming a DJ of Thought.” More description below the video.
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Description:
Remixing is not just an art form: it is a fundamental method for understanding and interacting with what we know. We’ve realized the potential of remixing in music, literature, and art—we must now [...]
New remix, improvised knowledge project in which I create 10 true statements by a writer by improvisationally remixing their writing.
First two attempts below: Robert Smithson and John Dewey.
Robert Smithson
John Dewey
appearing to impress the notice on our surroundings
spinning the basic pre-game concept
attracting a fuller explanation out of fragments
responding to the fading ignorance
looking back at the titled moment
habituating a phenomenon to a perceptive system
shifting the effect of vision’s curve
circling the feeling with a world in reverse
(statements re-mixed from
Optical illusions may seem to deceive, but they actually [...]
In Boulder, CO.
The weather is beautiful.
This is reportage.
This is a post from my phone.
If Horsemen were links, I’d be the weakest.
I’ve been reading Stein and thinking of Diderot and the space-time-meaning continuum.
Improvised Recombinance
Functional Improvised Recombinance in which a recombinance, or remix, is channeled into a structure for further use
An interactive performance lecture in which I taught a group of George Mason University students how to re-mix thought-objects to generate answers to the question “What is Thought?”
This is a condensed “promo” version of the 20-minute lecture.
This morning the sun rose and I remembered this note from my performance with Kate Porter.
This is for my friends who need it.
This may be the best thing I’ve ever written / riffed off from Bjork.
Sing it to the day. Sing it to yourself.
In this reading, I discover that I am close to pattern. And I see a child seeing some birds.
Source for this reading: Seed magazine
EXCERPTS FROM THE READING
Go deep.
There will be a fire.
A fire deep within a schema.
A schema deep within a fire.
Close to pattern I am in parts.
I hear how it moves, the basis of [...]
Fight the sad times by doing something unexpected.
Instead of going to nytimes.com.
Which you don’t care about anyway.
Search for “radial symmetry.”
In a web browser (as one method).
Find:
Thanks nikolas schiller.
A balance in time.
An eye made of history.
Proceeding to repeat itself from some initial point or set of points.
Point to a set.
That’s a point.
In a set.
Repeat.
In this reading, I discover that when the system answers a question, the operator gets a signal that cannot be found.
EXCERPTS FROM THE READING
To ask the system how it moves like that:
Like the emergence of what it expands into.
Like the realm of parts I hear.
Like the space between flocking birds.
Then, to hear this:
The system is [...]