remixthebook

Remix the Glitch: Mark Amerika’s New “Museum of Glitch Aesthetics” Project

Mark Amerika — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:48:12 +0000

From remixthebook author Mark Amerika:

It’s June 22, 2012, and we’re soft-launching my new art commission, the Museum of Glitch Aesthetics. Here’s a remix of the PR floating around the Web right now:

The Museum of Glitch Aesthetics (MOGA) is the latest work in Mark Amerika’s collaborative series of transmedia narratives. MOGA [...]

Rebooking the Mix (by Amaranth Borsuk)

GuestBlogger — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:33:30 +0000

Amaranth Borsuk has a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is currently Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT, where she teaches and works at the intersection of print and digital media. This fall, she will join the faculty of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington [...]

Busted Books, or How I Learned to Stop Authoring and Loving the Book (by Davis Schneiderman)

GuestBlogger — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:27:48 +0000

Davis Schneiderman is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEADBOOKS trilogy comprised of the largely blank novel, Blank: a novel (Jaded Ibis), with audio from DJ Spooky, and the forthcoming [SIC] and INK. (Jaded Ibis); and the co-edited collections [...]

Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (by Vito Campanelli)

GuestBlogger — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:23:12 +0000

Vito Campanelli is a new media theorist and a research fellow in Communications and New Technologies at University of Milan “IULM”. His main research interest is technological imaginary. He is also a freelance curator of digital culture events and co-founder of MAO – Media & Arts Office. His essays on media [...]

Commonplace for the age of the world playlist (by Benjamin J. Robertson)

GuestBlogger — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:00:24 +0000

Benjamin J. Robertson is instructor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he teaches classes on contemporary literature, media studies, baseball, and elves. He is working on two book projects: The Age of the World Playlist and Here at the End of All Things: Genre and the Horizon of History.

Commonplace for the [...]

Remix While You Still Can (by Hippocrit)

GuestBlogger — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:55:19 +0000

Hippocrit like words.
Hippocrit enjoys messing with words, and particularly likes it when language breaks down.
Hippocrit thinks language actively participates in the construction of reality.
Hippocrit is interested in how materiality and form affects the operations of language.
Hippocrit explores how digital technologies have affected our relationship to language.
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Distance: Protect Your Mind (by Robert Arellano)

GuestBlogger — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:24:54 +0000

Robert Arellano is an internationally renowned columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Glow in heart, pit in stomach, he travels to places like Egypt, Syria and Russia to travel. He observes the democratic. His book Curse the Names aired on his third Pulitzer on the economy and Israel. He is an American journalist. He is.

Distance: Protect Your [...]

Other Lives

GuestBlogger — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:28:19 +0000

DJ Lautréamont is a proponent of critical media literacy, professorial hacktivism, and practice-based research in the innovative arts. A former Chair in a Department of Fine Arts, he has since taken early retirement and now plays his DJ sets at low-key parties and occasional alternative gallery openings.

Other Lives

Today I am a novelist, blogger, [...]

Art Sabotage (by Greg Debicki)

GuestBlogger — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:57:50 +0000

Greg Debicki is a Calgary-based composer and new media artist. He studied at the Dartington College of Arts and Alberta College of Art and Design. Currently he’s working with Derek Demassi to create an installation in which bioluminescent algae communicate over a wireless network to create an audio/visual performance.

Under the pseudonym “Woulg” he makes glitch [...]

Remix the Dead (by Scott Rettberg)

GuestBlogger — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:52:11 +0000

Scott Rettberg teaches digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary, and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen. Rettberg is the author or coauthor of novel-length works of electronic literature including The Unknown, Kind of Blue, and Implementation. Rettberg is the cofounder and served as the first executive director of the nonprofit Electronic Literature [...]