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Ignite DC Talk – Becoming a DJ of Thought

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:28:34 +0000

Video from my talk at Ignite DC #2, titled “Becoming a DJ of Thought.” More description below the video.

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 remix the entire spectrum of human thought. If we can remix songs, why not the encyclopedia? If we can mash-up Jay-Z and the Beatles, why not Einstein and Darwin, the Bible and Pythagoras, Isaac Newton and Lewis Carroll? Remixing “the stuff of thought” will yield not only compelling art, but, with the right understanding and appreciation, real insight and scientific advancement. The innovators of the future will be “DJs of Thought,” sampling, mixing, and spinning all existing ideas and thought-objects into ever-new structures. They will remix what we know into what we could know. They will show the Academy how to dance.

10 True Statements (Robert Smithson and John Dewey)

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:19:27 +0000

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

Our Brains Construct Reality By _______

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:30:55 +0000

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 reveal truths about how our brains construct reality)

Going mobile

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:46:18 +0000

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.

No, You Won’t Fool…

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:05:06 +0000

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Improvised Recombinance / Functional Improvised Recombinance

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:14:35 +0000

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.

Note – You’ll Be Given Love

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:56:53 +0000

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.

I Am Its Voices – Part 3

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:37:46 +0000

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 emergence.
Like a space between two birds.
It says it is just a simulation.
Just a complex instance.
For learners to repeat.

METHOD

Become a medium for meaningful phrases to emerge from; use source texts when possible.
Write the phrases on post-it notes.
Take webcam shots of yourself holding the post-it notes.
Do an improvised oracular reading of the pictures.
Repeat until enlightened.

I am becoming a modern-day oracle to discover what “it” is, by giving voice to its many parts, arranging them in serendipitous configurations.

Radial Symmetry

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:03:52 +0000

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.

I Am Its Voices – Part 2

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:55:01 +0000

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 generated in realms.
The parts are decided when decisions decide.
The voices are the moving parts.

ABOUT THE SERIES
I am becoming a modern-day oracle to discover what “it” is, by giving voice to its many parts, arranging them in serendipitous configurations.

METHOD
Become a medium for meaningful phrases to emerge from; use source texts when possible.
Write the phrases on post-it notes.
Take webcam shots of yourself holding the post-it notes.
Do an improvised oracular reading of the pictures.
Repeat until enlightened.