Collagist practices of knowledge

collage

"This new artist is an architect of the space of events, an engineer of worlds for billions of future histories, a sculptor of the virtual." Pierre LÈvy

George P. Landow Hypertext as Collage Writing in P. Lunenfeld (ed) Digital Dialectic: new essays on new media Boston: MIT Press, 1999
Rock Concrete: Counterculture plugs in to the Academy Edwin Pouncey

A. some definitions --collage

-- given your definitions, what might a collagist practice of knowledge be?

-- what characteristics does Landow think hypermedia 'hypertexts' and collage share? what would you say rock concrete and sampling have in common with these models?

-- what does Landow say about the process he went through to write this paper? Do artists in other disciplines go through similar processes?

-- some people call this Frankenstein art -- what do they mean by this?

-- can you think of any examples of Frankenstein music? dance? design? theatre? film/video? multimedia?

-- how does collage/appropriation/digital sampling/mechanical reproduction/digital reproduction challenge or enhance our notions of
who gets to be an artist?
the boundaries of an artistic work
the place of originality?
the place of technology in/and art
translation from one medium to another

what other ideas do the readings from this week raise for you?

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