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. . . It's all
conceptual art . . . What happens when you hold a mirror up to the
city's mysteries and try to
fathom the depth and complexity of the
reflection? What goes through your mind as you move through the
geometric
fray of contemporary hypermediated life's frequency drenched landscape?
These were questions that went through my mind as we worked on this
project. The notes that accompany this text are only available on-line.
They may be quoted, recontextualized, remixed, and recast, however anyone
desires.
Quotations, notations, denotative and connotative meaning The
sounds for "
The Quick and the Dead" were generated by the landscapes and
cultural environments of several cities but, following the logic of the
collaboration,
the elements were blurred beyond recognition in the process
of composition. They, like the music, are merely a
reflection of a
reflection of a reflection.
Polysemic.
Polyphrenic.
No beginning, no
ending.
Thoughts without end, that is the world, with these mixes, that I
hope to send.
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geopolitics of frequency dispersion,
necessitates reflexive environmental
engagement> Lucy Lippard's "
Dematerialized Object"
de-scripted voices,
re-contextualized,
phonetic-dissemination.
Mel Bochner>
conceptual art as
post-serialist sculpture - conceptual art as
functional unit.
Mood
sculpture. If
culture of the dérive (
functional yet continuously variable)
implies
psycho-geographic
memetic flux, then
post- dérive milieu is one of
continuous, seamless,
suspension of disbelief.
Use your eyes to hear and your ears to see, thus
the concept becomes reality.
Adrian Piper's
conceptual engagement with
process (
modular remix 2000):
"To me, people who complain about the "anti-humanism" of conceptual art are
missing the point," she wrote back in her 1967 essay "A Defense of the
"Conceptual"
process in art." "Any kind of
objectivity - whether it is in
the
formulation of a concretized system, a
rational decision-making method,
conceptual clairty - can serve only to
facilitate the final emergence, in
as pure a form as possible, of the
artistic idea, which is almost always
intuitive in nature. It is only when one
subordinates the
original
intuition to the
subjective distillations and limitations of one's own
personality that one need be finally confronted with a kind of
mirror image
of one's egotistical conflicts as an end product"
(Adrian Piper,
Out of Order, Out of Sight)
floating above the city:
waves, frequency bursts, packets of distilled
information distributed through out the
spectrum of all communications
devices What sounds to make? What voices to hear? A series of
postulates -
all
utterly intuitive - of
devices trained and programmed and sequenced
with this environment in mind. The
urban landscape as invisible
centrifuge
for the
bio-machinic processes of a
culture that has been consumed by its
communications devices.
Human and inhuman: the blur is the
kinesthetic
impulse of electro-modernity codes and modes,
tasks and masks,
distributed
networks,
nets and bets. An
archive of all that we have said and done,
adrift in the density the search for the meta-pattern acts as a cipher
translation.
Unlock the differential, and perhaps another form of
communication can be seen:
Technologos is therefore remembering, and not only habit. It's self
referential capacity,
reflection in the usual sense, 'critical' reflection
if you like, is excercised by remembering its own
presuppositions and
implications as its limitations. And by the same token, the
technologos
opens up the world of what has been excluded by its very constitution, by
the structures of its functioning, at all levels. This is how new
denotative linguistic structures are invented:
arithmetic,
geometry,
analysis. This is
how science is generated, the sciences, as a process of
conquest of the unknown, of
experimentation beyond cultural experience, of
complexification of the logos beyond the received technologos of breaching.
This is the process I am calling "
scanning."
Jean François Lyotard, "Logos and Techne, or Telegraphy" taken from "The
Inhuman: Reflections on Time"
repetition: "
Urbanism as will and representation"(International
Situationist #9): "
Modern capitalism - concetrated and highly developed
capitalism - inscribes onto the scenery of life the fusion of what used to
be opposed as the
positive and negative poles of alienation: a sort of
equalizer of alienation. One's obligatory stay there is supervised by an
increasingly preventive police.
The new cities are laboratories of this
stifling society: from
Véllingby in
Sweden to
Bessor in
Israel where
all
forms of leisure are to be united in one single center, without forgetting the
housing project in Anvilés that signals the
neo capitalist development now
reaching
Spain.
Simultaneously, the disappearance of the "urban jungle"
that corresponds to free market capitalism - in all its lack of comfort,
its luxury, and its adventures - continues apace. The center of
Paris is
radically restructured by the organization of automobile traffic: the quays
transformed into highways, place
Dauphine into an
underground parking
garage. This in no way precludes the
complementary tendency to restore a
few old urban spots as sites of touristic spectacle, a simple
extension of
the principle of the
classical museum by means of which an entire
neighborhood can become a
monument.
Administrative bureaucracies of all
sorts construct everywhere
buildings suited to their taste. At
Canisy, this
even includes the administration of a new activity that, despite its
enormity, can be sold at a premium like all the
charlatanry that responds
to all lacks: the
specialists of generalization"
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dismemberment of vocal apparatus,
derpersonalized,
non
recognizeable.
Distortion of all aspects of functional communication,
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mood scultpure for
the Combine Generation.
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-By
Paul D. Miller a.k.a.
Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid (2/4/00)
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