Intro—Link Cluster—Theme Song

Hello 712.006.. .

Sorry to miss the first (&next) class! Have been in Paris (performing with Vito Acconci &James Hoff at the Centre Pompidou) &Berlin (screening this moving picture called Flash Artifacts, on wch I’ll write more later.. .) Looking forward to getting back &digging into Network Cultures with yuall!

Anyhow, here’s a short introduction &only follow the links as/if they interest you! (*^_^*)

Tnx for the shoutout in class Kazys &yes, I work for UbuWeb, the internet’s great repository for all things avant-garde, innovative, &experimental. I’ve been the editor of /ubu Editions for a few years &have lately been interested in critically investigating UbuWeb thru a series of live (staged) events.

Otherwise, I archive-edit at PennSound, where I’m also involved in investigating the networks, translations, &generalized digitization going on there.

As a writer-editor, I’m especially interested in digitizing books. I started my online work as a scanner at Eclipse (wch you’ve got to visit!) &have made a few explorations into this peculiar kind of remediation. On point here, I’ve been involved in the Nobody Books collective for a year or so, where we’ve expanded Foreman’s No-Body, a novel in parts, at—(not sure if you were there Kazys?)—Studio-X among other places.

Surely, that’s entirely too much for now! I used to run a somewhat active sharity blog called j.henry chunko, wch I’ve been considering reviving. But for tonight, I found an old post on Acconci’s “Theme Song” to share. Thematically, much of my work is interested in the various ways that ‘older’ media—like print, vinyl, or celluloid—are reconfigured in digital contexts. “Theme Song”, as I was just reminded of in conversation with Acconci this weekend, is an exemplary case of how a video-work meant to be played on a large monitor in a gallery (ostensibly interrogating the potential for intimacy in that kind of public space) is now screened in the incredibly intimate environment of rich media consoles. Anyhow, I’ll talk more on this, so I won’t bore you with too much now, but do enjoy this (flash) video!

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@2 years ago
#danny snelson, #james hoff, #vito acconci #general #theme song