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Portrait of Kathryn Cornelius – 6/8/10

adam — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:23:39 +0000

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a portrait (a live remix of an artist’s language), so I’m really excited by this new one, of Kathryn Cornelius, in conversation with Jeffry Cudlin at a Pink Line Project Salon Contra event. Kathryn is a fellow traveler on the emerging road of Art+Neuroscience, so the language I got to play with was especially rich and representative of this new terrain.

The image of the portrait is below, followed by the transcribed text.

A Map Transcending the Reading

Logic of:
or, style, or
generations of
spin, current
proximity relates
extremes, all
configurations
enter, balance
phenomena, skip
out of this
decision, the space
splitting thought, nice
already-there binary
dynamic, this sense
informs the body, worlds
around the form, reactions
before perspective’s push, let’s
do home again, picking
shared repeating application, retelling
setting, texts shaping texts, generating
community out of a certain reading

once again, a roster
of playing a space
very quickly with
little bits of
format
jog what’s happening
in a language
we don’t understand,
in so many ways
there, missing its
reflection, the
figures, or death,
construct
an intimate way,
reflect on
what’s happening
governed by
emphasis
mentioned,
form,
space,
push,
vehicle

Art is _______ : Remixing Artist’s Words to Create New Definitions of Art

adam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:42:10 +0000

WE ARE SCIENCE! collaborated with the Pink Line Project to create an interactive experience for the Phillips Collection’s “This is not That” cafe. We took 12 artists from the collection, sampled their statements about art, and broke them down into cards that participants could use to remix their own statements, filling in the blank in “Art is _____”. I was struck by how engaged people were in the experience, and how the simplicity and playfulness of the concept opened up remarkable creativity.

Check out the video to see what I mean:

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.

Or, download it at iTunes

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

Ignite DC Talk – Backmatter

adam — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:03:55 +0000

Some things I’ve been checking out while working on my presentation for Ignite DC.

Crowdsourced music video for Choir of Young Believers’ “Action/Reaction.” from Booooooom.

Into Infinity: open source audio/visual interpretations of infinity from DubLab. An amazing variety of styles.

An image of infinity

Girl Talk creates a mash-up from “Radio, Radio” by Elvis Costello

Reenactment of the Discovery of the Scratch

adam — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:02:48 +0000

Grand Wizard Theodore was said to have accidentally discovered the scratch when his mother yelled at him to stop playing records so loud. He put his hand directly on the record to stop it, heard the sound that resulted, and started playing around. Here’s a decent reenactment of that crucial moment.

How can we “scratch” our objects of thought? Texts, statements, definitions, theories?

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)

From Seed – Sessions 003 and 004

adam — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:07:00 +0000

Two more sessions of remixing Seed magazine to discover new potential truths and avenues for exploration.

Session 003 - Yet a common division of linkages will sort data into their own tones and juices…

Session 004 - Sometimes the only way to understand the light / dark core at the heart of deciphering is to register the descendants of each moment of revelation…

From Seed – Sessions 001 and 002

adam — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:34:04 +0000

From Seed is a new object-oriented thought project in which I conduct quick, improvised remixes of Seed magazine, in order to discover new meanings and possible directions for future knowledge. Noticing what emerges from seed, we enter strange, uncharted fields and domains for further exploration and refinition.

Session 001 – The big idea is a music that can understand a structure…

Session 002 – These ideas … can take one into a particular means to test the illumination. A small current of options flows through the garden…

the expanding [universe]

adam — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:52:52 +0000

the event concluded in a relative state.
from previous walls, it was evident that
the motion doubled as an experiment.
a direction has volume.
a single wave has effects upon conclusions.
the importance of the pure figure as clouds of possible structure.

(phrases re-mixed from The Discoveries)