Stutter Things: Composing Time, Space, and Text in the Datacloud Johndan Johnson-Eilola Clarkson UniversityThen I'm headed to the opposite end of information ideology, Neilsen/Norman Group's User Experience 2003. Should be an interesting transition: chaos to order (perhaps). Or leftists to logicians? Anyway. Posted by johndan at September 17, 2003 12:17 AM | TrackBackIt's analog. It's right in front of you. They don't need a delay line; they're creating delays with a beat delay line or with moving the fader in certain ways to stagger things and to stutter things and to manipulate time with your hands.The term "text" seems in danger of catching up with its postmodern usage, where any discursive situation became a text to read, resist, revise, and place under erasure. But our idea of what counts as "writing" remains, too frequently, bound to traditional sorts of texts: novels, user manuals, letters, essays. Although hypertext and experimental fiction, among other genres, have challenged some of the ground rules of textuality, in this talk I'll look at a wider range of media in order to think about how we might rearticulate textuality in ways appropriate to contemporary culture. Oscillating between "text" and other media, I'll work through analyses of avant garde and experimental music (ranging from the loop work of Steve Reich to the Parking Lot Experiments of the Flaming Lips) to turntablism (including work by DJ QBert and Cut Chemist) to construct new methods for thinking about textual production, consumption, and articulation.
Naut Human,
DJ/Media Artist
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