New - eyePad Technology

The eyePad is a line of prostheses designed, developed and marketed by Apple (aka Apple_of_my_Eye Inc.), primarily as a platform for a unique visual experience. The actual name is reportedly a homage to Pad-Thai, the favourite dish of some Apple engineers. The eyePad uses an Eye-Fi connection to access local area networks and navigate any local environments without the assistance of deceitful physical applications.

The eyePad's touchscream display is a liquid crystal display, with fingerprint- and scratch-resistant surface. Like the eyeGlass, the eyePad is designed to be controlled by bare fingers. Boxing gloves and styli do not work, although there are special pressure-triggered styli designed for this use (see illustration below).

The eyePad has an ambient light sensor which constantly adjusts brightness to the lowest. Its ultra-sensitive accelerometer will be able to sense any movement and will switch between static and mobile modes. Unlike several competitors eyePad's built-in applications support rotation in all orientations, including upside-down and allow the customer to explore different spatial dimensions.

The eyePad was released with various capacity options for storage depending on age and intellectual ability of end-users. All data, e.g. visions or delusions which for some reason manage to connect to the end user, are stored on the customer's internal flash memory, with no option to expand storage.

The eyePad 2 (below) is the upgraded version of the original eyePad. It provides the ideal interface for blind dates and enriches non-visual activities by permitting non-reading, non-viewing and non-browsing thus making books, periodicals, movies, games and web content completely obsolete.

D.-B.Chirot - Killer Chrome

D.-B.Chirot_ Killer Chrome

Rem Magazine - Journal of Experimental Writing

Open publication - Free publishing

Contributers: Rosaire Appel, Carlyle Baker, Miriam Barr, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, John M. Bennett, Michael Berton, John Bucklow, Valentina Cano, Stephanie Christie, Barnaby Dromgool, Raymond Farr, Carl James, Marco Giovenale, Mariangela Guatteri, Kristina Hard, Amelia Harris, Jeffrey Holman, Kristina Jenson, Matt Margo, Joseph Musso, Vaughan Rapatahana, David Prescott-Steed, Massimo Sannelli, Fabio Sassi, Andrew Topel, Nico Vassilakis, Changming Yuan.

Print colour version available at lulu.

Black and white version here.

Yves Klein - End of the Void Story

To see Episode 1 on Zswound: here.

Other Void Stories: by Daniel Minnick.

Remix - Remixthebook by Mark Amerika

About remixthebook
“Think of remixthebook as DJ Tool made from rhythms downloaded, ripped, mixed, spliced, diced, and burned into our collective hard drives, then re-uploaded. It’s a piece of conceptual hardware that exists somewhere between how we experience information and how information aesthetics has transformed the human condition. It’s that deep.”



The Remixes
"Amerika, along with co-curator and artist Rick Silva, has invited over 25 contributing international artists, poets, and critical theorists, all of them interdisciplinary in their own practice-based research, to sample from remixthebook and manipulate the selected source material through their own artistic and theoretical filters. The curators were especially excited about working with colleagues who formally experiment with digital video, audio remixes, critical text collage, computer imaging, social media, glitch, poetry, electracy, copyleft, and online performance."

ZSW-M - A Zswound Project (published)

ZSW-M (Z45 to Z66 within the Zswound-Mania project) has been published as an ebook and is available at GAMMM. Many thanks to the GAMMM team for their work on this "document". ZSW-M is a collaborative work by Erik K. and Xavier S.

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Reminder.
Zswound-Mania was a project focused on the translation, modification and alteration of a single stimulus. In other words, all posts repeat more or less the same thing. All the boring outputs from this experiment are numbered:
**Z0 is the stimulus
**Z1 to Z44 are available on line on Zswound-Mania
**Z45 to Z66 are only available on PDF and are now hosted on GAMMM.
**Z67 to Z72 are generated with the Meaning Eater engine
**Z74 to Z80 are based on a wide range of automatic processes (text/image generator) as we have become very lazy over time.

This project is now more or less dormant.

Erasure + Animation : Works by Rachel Kwak

A World I Never Made

A World I Never Made from Rachel Kwak on Vimeo.

"Created by as a final project by animator Rachel Kwak in my Spring 2010, "Experimental Animation" class at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, this film is a beautiful example of visual poetry. It is based on A.E Housman's "A World I Never Made". A variety of techniques are employed including; cut-outs, hand-drawn, stop motion and replacement animation. Music is "Eon Blue Apocalypse" by Tool." (Rachel Kwak)


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Secret

Secret from Rachel Kwak on Vimeo.

"Crux Desperationis" - journal (review)

Following the tradition of pragmatic eclecticism, "Crux Desperationis" journal is seeking to meld various self-defense methods together into a unified conceptual whole. With reference to the stylistic chauvinism that had been displayed by some of their predecessors in this field, the editors simply endeavoured to harmoniously gather the really practical methods of literary defense, whatever their origin, and especially to combine them into an international journal.

The system displayed by "Crux Desperationis" is notably non-scientific and largely eschewed the more typical 2000s approach to self-promoting writing, which is to present the reader with a series of individual “tricks” or literary techniques. Instead, "Crux Desperationis" presents their readers with a comprehensive progression of fighting methods and writing tactics, with an emphasis upon combative practicality.

Main techniques presented in "Crux Desperationis":

The chop blow: DEREK BEAULIEU

Insertion of the knees: ROB FITTERMAN

The elbow strike: ROMAN LUJAN

The headbutt: VITTORE BARONI

The hip throw: SHARON KIVLAND

Special commanding of the leg: MARCO ANTONIO HUERTA

The kick back: CRAIG DWORKIN

Kick to the face: BELEN GACHE

Use of the legs in ground combat: RICHARD KOSTELANETZ

Remarks on the coup de pied bas: SIMON MORRIS

Defence against two arm locks: INGE GRAO

Parry of the scissors: CLAUDE CLOSKY

Ordinary throws: RICCARDO BOGLIONE

Relative utility of the cane in real combat: KENNETH GOLDSMITH

Stomach throw: PABLO URIBE

Arm lock no. 2: MICHALIS PICHLER

Throw from behind: MASSIMO PASTORELLI

Good posture in the superior position: MIRTHA DERMISACHE

The tactics of combat in the street (and editors of "CD"): RICCARDO BOGLIONE & GEORGINA TORELLO

Download from Ubuweb: "Crux Desperationis" (pdf).

Locus Novus - A synthesis

LOCUS NOVUS

A synthesis of TEXT / IMAGE / SOUND / MOTION

Locus Novus is a multimedia environment which blends sensations and creates a unique and enriched reading experience. Some of my recent favourite pieces include:

**Pop up Poptagon by Dorothee Lang & Karyn Eisler

**Anti-Twitter by Harold Jaffe

**A Plague of Cities by Gary Lain

**TetherWorld by Shelly Rae Rich

All texts on Locus Novus are briliantly animated / brought to life / captured by Faruk Ulay who has exposed some of his "thoughts" in this free but so structured composition: Pensées.

Hans Courbet The Younger - The Origin of the World

Hans Courbet the Younger (1497 — 1877) was an artist and printmaker who led the Realistic Renaissance (from ri- "again" and nascere "birth") movement. Hans Courbet painted figurative compositions, landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes, murals, religious works and he is best known as one of the greatest portraitists. He courted controversy by addressing social issues in his work, and by painting subjects that were considered vulgar, such as the bourgeoisie, peasants, merchants and working conditions of the rich.

His work belonged neither to the predominant Romantic nor Neoclassical schools. His work did not belong either to Baroque, Rococo, Expressionism, Impressionism, Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism, post-modernism, pop art, mannerist Bauhaus, post-constructivism, cubism, early and late futurism, Pre-Raphaelite minimalism, abstraction, anti-fluxus decadentism, neo-conceptual escapism, neo-classical lettrism and situationist land art. His work actually had nothing to do with the Hudson River School.

His work, along with the work of Honoré Cranach and Albrecht Millet, became known as Realistic Renaissance (Re-birth). For Hans Courbet, Realistic Renaissance (re-birth) dealt not with the perfection of line and form, but entailed bizarre and unexpected handling of symbols, suggesting a deformed perception of reality through sensual observation by the artist while portraying the irregularities and horrors in nature. He depicted the absurdity in life, and in so doing challenged contemporary academic ideas of art. History painting, which the world esteemed as a painter's highest calling, did not interest Hans Courbet, who stated that "Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror." Instead, he believed that the only possible source for a living art is the artist's own experience of life and death.

At the end of his life, Hans Courbet the Younger painted a series of increasingly anamorpho-erotic works which culminated in The Origin of the World (also known as the ambassadors), which depicts a close-up view of an exposed female body giving life to a skull thus "incorporating" mortality in the very act of birth.

He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, Hans Courbet the Elder, an unknown painter of the Late Gotham City school.

E. E. Cummings - Little ladies (polyglossia)

little ladies

than dead exactly dance

in my head,precisely

dance where danced la guerre.

Mimi à

la voix fragile

qui chatouille Des

Italiens

the putain with the ivory throat

Marie Louise Lallemand

n’est-ce pas que je suis belle

chéri? les anglais m’aiment

tous,les américains

aussi….”bon dos, bon cul de Paris”(Marie

Vierge

Priez

Pour

Nous)

with the

long lips of

Lucienne which dangle

the old men and hot

men se promènent

doucement le soir(ladies

accurately dead les anglais

sont gentils et les américains

aussi,ils payent bien les américains dance

exactly in my brain voulez

vous coucher avec

moi? Non? pourquoi?)

ladies skilfully

dead precisely dance

where has danced la

guerre j’m'appelle

Manon,cinq rue Henri Mounier

voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

te ferai Mimi

te ferai Minette,

dead exactly dance

si vous voulez

chatouiller

mon lézard ladies suddenly

j’m'en fous des nègres

(in the twilight of Paris

Marie Louise with queenly

legs cinq rue Henri

Mounier a little love

begs,Mimi with the body

like une boîte à joujoux, want nice sleep?

toutes les petites femmes exactes

qui dansent toujours in my

head dis donc,Paris

ta gorge mystérieuse

pourquoi se promène-t-elle,pourquoi

éclate ta voix

fragile couleur de pivoine?)

with the

long lips of Lucienne which

dangle the old men and hot men

precisely dance in my head

ladies carefully dead

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Polyglossia on Zswound:

Valéry Larbaud: La Neige

R. Huelsenbeck (Deutsch), M. Janko (English), Tristan Tzara (Français): Poème simultan

The name of the Rose: Salvatore

Raymond Federman - A to Z poem (Logorrhoea)

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Published in CrashTest mag (Tlaongue issue) and in Electronic Book Review (Sound version)

Other Ordering projects.

It's a Zswounderful life

On and on with Zswound

Always Zswounda Cola

A Zswound a day helps you work rest and play

Don't leave home without zswound

I can't believe I ate the whole zswound!

Just Zswoundo it

Keep ZSWalking

Probably the best zswound in the world

Put a Tiger in Your Zswound. Put a Zswound in your engine.

The future's bright - the future's zswound.

The Power to Be Your Best Zswound.

When you say Zswound, you've said it all.

You can't resist the zswist!

Zswound keeps going, and going, and going...

Zswound melts in your mouth - not in your hand.

Only the crumbliest flakiest Zswound

That's handy Harry ! Stick it in the Zswound

We bring Zswound to life

Savour the flavour of Zswound

There's only one Zswound

Don't be vague. Ask for Zswound.

Better living through Zswound.

Zswound stays sharp til the bottom of the glass.

Because Zswound can't drive.

Promise her anything. But give her Zswound.

Not just nearly Zswound. But really Zswound.

Mamma mia, that's a spicy Zswound.

Let the Zswound take the strain.

Come to Zswound and let's get it done.

What's in your Zswound?

Things happen after a Zswound.

Make someone happy with a Zswound.

Don't be an Amber Zswound.

Show me the Zswound!

Full of eastern Zswound.

Double the pleasure. Double the Zswound.

Keep that Zswound complexion.

It's just for me and my Zswound.

I wish they all could be Zswound girls.

I'm cuckoo for Zswound.

Gotta lotta Zswound.

Nobody does it like Zswound.

There's more than one way to eat a Zswound.

Got Zswound?

Beanz Meanz Zswoundz

Have a Zswound and smile.

You presse the Zswound. We do the rest.

Think once. Think twice. Think Zswound.

Give that man a Zswound.

I'm stuck on Zswound. Cause Zswound's stuck on me.

There ain't no party like a Zswound party.

I like the Zswound in you.

Pure Zswound.

I can't believe it's not Zswound.

Where do you want Zswound to go today?

It must be Zswound.

You've always got time for Zswound.

Zswoundborn and bred.

Loves the Zswound you hate.

Life should taste as good as Zswound.

Moving at the speed of Zswound.

Where Zswound is a pleasure.

The world's favourite Zswound.

Make it a Zswound night.

The ultimate Zswound Machine.

Do you, uh, Zswound?

Let the Zswound begin.

The Zswound is mightier than the zsword.

Zswound prevents that sinking feeling.

I want my Zswound.

Let's face the music and Zswound.

The real smell of Zswound.

Ordering Projects

1) Christof Migone: Single (2008)

The lyrics of 45 songs placed in alphabetical order and

each word is allowed only a single appearance.

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2) Jörg Piringer: Sorted speech 1

"an automatic cut-up experiment. Using speech recognition JP analyzed a video of a speech by barack obama. JP then sorted the snippets (containing a word each) alphabetically.

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3) Zswound: Reordering / Alpha

Mutating Text

Yves Klein - Into the Void

Into the Void also known as the Cycling Man.

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Aleatory Compression (2)

Atypographic Kinetics (AKA asemic kinetics) - Anthology (Part 6)

MYND ERASER

Book trailer for Michael Jacobson's MYND ERASER, an asemic kinetic work-in-progress blog novel (blovel).

Ghost-Writing - Local Colour by Derek Beaulieu (review)

A "Ghost"-writer is employed by fiction publishers for several reasons. In some cases, publishers use the "Ghost"-writer to increase the number of possibilities or variations that can be offered by a single book. In others, the "Ghost"-writer is used to deplete fiction from well-known works, from "name" authors in genres such as detective fiction, mysteries, and cryptic novels.

Some critics have recently assumed that the purported author of the New York Trilogy series, "Paul Auster", is actually a pseudonym for a series of "Ghost"-writers who write books in

different styles using a template of basic information as a source of systematic composition.

Some recent "Ghost"-writing, as observed here, also known as local-colour making, consisted in literally translating characters' names into their visual appearance and, at the same time, extracting all fictional indicators, erasing actions, movements, feelings that are expected in the book. Blue became blue, Black became black, Gold became gold, Brown became brown, Green became green and White actually invaded, saturated the entire book thus turning the original story into a backdrop for stable and strongly differentiated characters and, at some point, seemed like an attempt at defying the laws of the blank page syndrome.

Throuh the actual colour-coding which was taking place / space in this piece of work, the "Ghost"-writer was also attempting to render the actual process exposed in the original work which was stated as follows: "His method is to stick to outward facts, describing events as though each word tallied exactly with the thing described, and to question the matter no further. Words are transparent for him, great windows that stand between him and the world, and until now they have never impeded his view, have never seemed to be there" (page 174). So these are the words that the reader will not capture as words have vanished into unwriting: all that is left is a series character-events which take possession of the emptied space and inhabit it with their ghostly and undecipherable presence. This renewed space is unveiled by a ghost-writer known as Derek Beaulieu.

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_Spama Sutra Anthology

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Aleatory compression

Web Projects - Sorry I haven't posted

Sorry I haven't posted on Sorry I haven't posted. In the past few days, weeks, months and possibly years, I haven't, and for obvious reasons: time, money, life, sickness, pain, willingness (or absence of), mood, accident, traveling, problems, stress, work, error messages and whatnot. Despite my hate for “sorry I haven’t posted" posts, I can't help but posting one just to say I haven't and shouldn't and more importantly to reinforce the void between two posts, or the oblivion in which I almost fell as I was away, unposting. And, sometimes, I wish I was unposting more often and thus contributing to the neo-Bartlebyan community of discontinuing posters. I would prefer not to be sorry for being an un-poster. More "haven't posted sorrow" is available from Cory Arcangel's blog: Sorry I haven't posted.

Homovisual translation - Deemer and Woo: PyongYang TOO

Adapting Guy Delisle's comic book: PyongYang

Adapting a comic book is something quite obvious and quite remarkably done in many cases (for instance "Sin City"). We are not talking about adaptation here but a genuine reenactement of the original work on a new medium. In this case, Guy Delisle's comic (PyongYang) is here literally tanslated into photographic scenes which mimick the ones initially drawn by the author. What you can see in Deemer & Woo's work is exactly the same scenes with real characters. At times, when a human character was not available, D&W insert the comic version.

When Guy Delisle first went to North Korea (on a job assignment), his entire life was under control and supervision. He would not move without a translator and a so-called guide who were in charge, in his free time, of taking him to the official places (restaurants, sites, museums) and would make sure he would not take any initiatives of his own or escape the official routes and rhythms. And Guy would do so like ALL the visitors (mostly expatriates) to this country thus complying with the rigid local customs.

What Deemer and Woo are also doing (apart from having fun translating this static reality) is epitomising the iterative and never-ending journey of the foreigner in this frozen time/place. This is not about interpreting or describing a frightening life but demonstrating the constraint itself. D&W seem to have chosen to unveil the constraint at work: your body caught in a time and a space which does not belong to you but to the Other (the designer of the comic /of this kafkaian system); your mind and will are devoid of any initiative and brutally restricted to the structure (be it strips or official rules) and to pre-established actions.

Unsurprisingly, the characters in their pictures cannot talk, the words that come out of their mouths are the bublles taken from Guy's comic. Even when Guy had a chance to "escape" for a few hours, D&O have no way out but to stick to the original scenario.

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Deemer and Woo: PyongYang TOO, A Journey in North Korea is presented on Guy Delisle's website.

Art Projects - Installance

untitled (declaration)

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installance n. : # 0012.A1
type : declaration on a notebook sheet
size : cm 10x13.5
record : lowres shot [see here]
additional notes : left in cyberspace
date : Nov. 16th, 2010
time : approx 15:12pm
place : Zswound

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original location of installance # 0012: left in a parking lot in Rome, p.le dei Partigiani

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All INSTALLANCES to be found HERE

A series of abandoned, cryptic, enigmatic, minimalist messages, some to be lost, some to be found and most to remain abandoned, cryptic, enigmatic, minimalist pieces of uncertainty.

Animated Thought - "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce" (RSA Animate)

"In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving."

UnComic Strips - Crachoir Magazine #4 (2010)

The new Crachoir (a comics magazine created by Yvang) is now available. The editors, Yvang and Léo Quievreux, have designed a not so chaotic anthology of humourless strips packed with incongruouty and nonsense. The entire project known as "Comic Strips 0% Humour" was, as the title suggests, centred around two main objectives: 1) Assemble a large number of heterogeneous strips from many different artists thus obtaining a mix of very different styles within the 78 pages of the magazine. 2) Ban humour thus contradicting the name of the medium itself known as "comic". The object overall reads like a huge visual cut-up in which the reader is drowned into an endless and furious stream of unconsciousness. Here, there, unexpectedly, curious voices are heard, some understandable, others hardly recognizable. Can we say here that my friend Koloro Koro and myself have contributed to the pandemonium by inserting thanatoerotic visions full of glossolalic eruptions. Difficult to focus on just one scene, one moment or one style, the entire work has its own mysterious coherence (not uniformity) which becomes apparent as you read or move into this dense matter which breeds on accumulation, repetition, intensification and disruption. Ultimately, this "crachoir" is best grasped as a frightening inventory of anatomical distortions: dissolving bodies, melting faces, enlarging mouths, etc. Clearly, the experimental nature of the body is here again displayed and revealed in a wide variety of styles and structures. Despite the "strip" constraint, all participants bring their personnal contribution to the enstrangement or slaughter of the body (suicide, murder, torture, emasculation, etc). The role of the artist seems nicely summarised in this sentence: "Cadavre a les mains dans le monde" (Corpse has got his hands in the wolrd) as if the authors themselves belonged to both worlds, bridging the gaps between the dead and the living, showing landscapes and figures which stand at some uncanny frontier between real and sub-real. The list of participants is just as long and frightening as the credits in a George Romero movie:

Alex Baladi

Gary Atlass

Patrice Bauduinet

J.M. Bertoyas

Agnès Beuneux

Jean Bourguignon

Paquito Bolino

Olive Booger

Ruta Briede

Laetitia B.

Docteur C

Sarah Fisthole

Aisha Franz

Fredox

Gaiihin

David Guedin

G

Daisuke Ichiba

Joko

Julien Raboteau

Ernest Klavins

Koloro Koro-Javier Kronaver

Jean Kristau

J. & E. LeGlatin

L.L. de Mars

Ludovic Levasseur

4ndr345 M4rch4l

Chloé Mathiez

Jakez Moiré

Hélène Mougin

Anne-Fred Maurer

Matthias Lehmann

Alexandre de Moté

Mika

Ivan Martin

Nuvish

Paul Paetzel

Phil

Gabrielle Piquet

Piotr

Pt'it Marc

Léo Quiévreux

Maël Rannou

Lionel Richerand

Sam Rictus

Richard Papier

Rod

Guillaume Soulatges

Nicolas Tavar

Tony

Yann Tréhin

Marko Turunen

Uni

Véro

Y5P5

Yokogaga

Yoshi

Yvang

Zeami

Announcement - Heike Fiedler (new book & performance)

dabei

se placer à côté

daneben

vogelflug

les corps

aus

einander

rein

le reste une corvée

gesten

zum überleben

wie wär’ es

could it be

different

wenn

se tenir

debout jus

qu’à la fin

de la journée

stell ich mir

dabei

vor

From Heike Fiedler's book: "langues de meehr", GeDichte - PoeMe, edition spoken script

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+ Hommage à Henri Chopin:

Heike Fiedler - Steve Buchanan in: henri's shoppin',

hommage à Henri Chopin.

multimédia event: Poesie, sound et autres surprises, comme: 2nd line et mots... en projection.

More info here.

Polyglossia - The Name of the Rose (Salvatore)

"Penitenziagite! Watch out for the draco who cometh in futurum to gnaw on your anima! La mort e supremos! You contemplata me apocalypsum, eh? La bas! Nous avon il diabolo! Ugly cum Salvatore, eh? My little brother! Penitenziagite!" (Movie version)


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"Pénitenziagité ! Voye quand dracon venturus est pour la ronger ton âme ! La mortz est super nos ! Prie que vient le pape saint pour libérer nos a malo de todas les péchés ! Ah ah, vous plaît ista nécromancie de Domini Nostri Iesu Christi ! Et même jois m’es dols et plazer m’es dolors… Cave el diabolo ! Semper il me guette en quelque coin pour me planter les dents dans les talons. Mais Salvatore non est insipiens ! Bonum monasterium, et aqui on baffre et on prie dominum nostrum. Et el reste valet une queue de cerise. Et amen. No ?" (original version from Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose)

Zswoundlation - Matsuo Bashô / Frog Haiku

Remix - [Re]Cuts by Eduardo Navas

"[Re]Cuts is a remix of image, sound, and text inspired by William Burroughs's aesthetics of tape recording. The video is also influenced by his cut-up method as defined for writing in "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin." The video does not follow the strict cup-up rules professed by Burroughs, but rather considers his aesthetics as a point of reference to develop a non-sensical narrative."

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Kinetic Typography - Anthology (Part 5)

El Cuarteto de Nos - Ya no sé qué hacer conmigo (Raro)

Kinetic Typography - Anthology (Part 4)

Alex Gopher - The Child
Video by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet

Erasure - The Commissar vanishes

"Like their counterparts in Hollywood, photographic retouchers in Soviet Russia spent long hours smoothing out the blemishes of imperfect complexions, helping the camera to falsify reality. Joseph Stalin's pockmarked face, in particular, demanded exceptional skills with the airbrush. But it was during the Great Purges, which raged in the late 1930s, that a new form of falsification emerged. The physical eradication of Stalin's political opponents at the hands of the secret police was swiftly followed by their obliteration from all forms of pictorial existence.

Photographs for publication were retouched and restructured with airbrush and scalpel to make once famous personalities vanish. Paintings, too, were often withdrawn from museums and art galleries so that compromising faces could be blocked out of group portraits. Entire editions of works by denounced politicians and writers were banished to the closed sections of the state libraries and archives or simply destroyed."

The Commissar Vanishes
The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia

By DAVID KING
Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company

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The exhibition at the Newseum.

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Other famous altered images in the former Soviet Union.

Best post ever on Zswound

Scotophilic Bibliophobic Postal Gaslight

(composed of only the letters abcghijlopstx)

By Angela Genusa

[Celebrating 200 posts on Zswound. The above post, for some obscure reasons, is the most visited page on Zswound]

Erasure projects: Garfield minus Garfield

Garfield minus Garfield

[Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb. ]

Rachel Defay-Liautard: [] were really impossible

Spama Sutra Anthology

Spama Sutra - An anthology

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Poem 1

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SPOERMAMAX is formulated to:
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This premium combination of vherbs, adjectives and talent improves overall health and helps address many of the deficiencies known to decrease recognition and alter human communication.

Erasure Projects - Erasure in Art by Richard Galpin

[Joseph Kosuth, Zero and Not]

Erasure in Art, Destruction, Deconstruction and Palimpset by Richard Galpin "Introduction. My interest in erasure stems from my work as an artist. I am involved in work that deletes various texts, and am excited by the subtle play that erasure seems to create when executed in certain ways. My work is not about the suppression of text, or the negation of what the text represents, but is about obscuring the words in order to create a different relationship between the text and the viewer. When I first started this body of work I felt that the erasure of language in art, rather than being destructive, contained the potential to provoke an ambiguous and shifting reading of both the original text and the work. If not destructive then, could erasure be deconstructive? This is something that I will explore in this writing. I will then discuss the notion of the palimpsest as a concept that seems relevant to erasure in art."

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