[Air-L] Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object – new open access project

[jo.zylinska at gmail.com]

   Dear All,

   Together with Open Humanities Press, I am delighted to announce the
   first publication in my new series, MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW.

   Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-Tales
   of the Digital Afterlife by MALK (Mark Amerika / Laura Kim)

   Remixing Persona is comprised of two components: a visual manifesto
   that doubles as a theoretical e-reader and a work of music video art.
   In building this project, the artists collaboratively investigate
   persona-making, performance-thinking, and applied remixology. Playfully
   presenting their research as an intergenerational and intercultural
   ‘research band’ named MALK (Mark Amerika / Laura Kim), both artists,
   individually and as a performance duo, bring their own unique
   experiences and ontologically filtered ‘ways of remixing’ to their
   intermedia art, writing and performance practice.

   The research questions the artists initially presented to themselves
   were unconventional: ‘Who am I this time?’ ‘What does it mean to share
   a sense of humor?’ ‘What is an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility?’ The
   artists were not interested in coming up with answers per se, but in
   using their artist skills to deploy both intuitive and improvisational
   performances that would generate a set of primary source material to
   remix into their creative project. This was when they decided to form
   MALK and began creating the Digital Afterlife music video artwork as a
   conceptual tool to investigate persona-making as a meta-practice. The
   culminating field of recombinatory expression that informs the
   production of this imaginary digital media object is an inversion of
   their practice-based research conducted in the TECHNE Lab at the
   University of Colorado.

   Like all Open Humanities Press books, Remixing Persona is freely
   available at:
   [1]http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/

   Further information about the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series:
   [2]http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/

   Best wishes,

   Joanna



--
Professor Joanna Zylinska
Co-Head of Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London

[3]http://www.joannazylinska.net

Eco-Thoughts: An Interview in The Believer
[4]https://believermag.com/logger/eco-thoughts-an-interview-with-joanna-zylinska
/

References

   1. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/
   2. http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/
   3. http://www.joannazylinska.net/
   4. https://believermag.com/logger/eco-thoughts-an-interview-with-joanna-zylinska/