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Intro to physical book

This book was produced using images and texts (subtitles) taken from the Roman Polanski's film, “The Tenant”. The images and texts are extracted at moments when characters say the word "know", and then the frames and texts are reassembled into the form of book. Some of the pages are designed to be shorter than the rest, which provides the opportunity for the reader to read across pages, and at different intervals.

“The Tenant” is a psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski. The main character, Trelkovsky, is confronted by a mental conflict after he moves into the new apartment. The relationships among himself and the other neighbours become weird. He undergoes a transformation, and becomes the previous tenant. In the end, he dresses up again as a woman and throws himself out the apartment window in the manner of the previous tenant, Simone. He ends up bandaged in the same fashion as Simone, in the same hospital bed. But ultimately we see Trelkovsky and Simone's close friend Stella visiting Simone in the hospital.

I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one person’s life onto another and the mutative relationships among the main charater and other tenants that we see through out the story. These transformations triggered the production of my book. Sampling all incidents through out the story, I juxtaposed all the dialogues containing the word "know". Each sentence that was extracted from the script became my re-constructed narration, and altered the perception of events. An external way of reading the film is presented in this book with all the existing images and texts.

Digital Book

From the fiction book The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr(1819-1821) by E.T.A. Hoffmann to Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, and to the game of Exquisite Corpse developed by Surrealists writers, then to experimental literature group Oulipo, later on to William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, the works from all of these writers and artists showed the power of cut-ups and the fantasy from arbitrary juxtaposition. I found it is exactly what interests me most for now. In digital age, to all netizens cut-ups exist in everyday life, we receive more fragments, and alway be multitasking jumping one quickly to another. "we no longer watch films and TV, we watch databases" And the juxtaposition is no longer arbitrary. Our data get traced, we are feed by all those recommendations. But what I want to research more is not all these commercial strategies. But "to study online video is to study this intimate aspect of affect, no the theories of commercial repackaging that underlie common rhetoric about remediation." (Networks without A Cause, Geert Lovink) "The social is the core constitutive element of contemporary video practice and not some leftover redundant noise surrounding audiovisual content." So I am questioning myself what will affect people most in the database watching? This is also the topic of my self-directed research, which already got started from last Thematic Project (please refer to my mock-up kickstart project).

For this digital book project, I am following the way of how the game of Exquisite Corpse developed. At initial time, the game requires several people involved to compose a sentence without knowing what words have been written down. Several years later, a question-and-answer varian on the Exquisite Corpse produced a curiously resonant definition:"What is André Breton? An amalgam of humour and a sense of disaster; something like a top hat." I was fascinated by this tasteful sentence/question and answer. So I use the video clips contain questions from the film The Tenant when characters say "know" within a question and put them on the left side of my webpage. I also extract possible answers from the subtile putting them accordingly on the right side of my webpage. By scrolling the page viewer can scan each clip, only when scrolling to some certain places, the clips of questions will play and the texts of answers will be shown.

By putting the existing material in different context, new connections can be made by the viewers.

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-<!-- From Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, to the game of Exquisite Corpse developed by Surrealists writers, then to experimental literature group Oulipo, later on to William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. They all trying to do make showcase the power and imagination of cut-ups
+=====Intro to physical book=====
-suggestive power of those arbitrary juxtapositions of words
+This book was produced using images and texts (subtitles) taken from the Roman Polanski's film, “The Tenant”. The images and texts are extracted at moments when characters say the word "know", and then the frames and texts are reassembled into the form of book. Some of the pages are designed to be shorter than the rest, which provides the opportunity for the reader to read across pages, and at different intervals.
-"mentally interesting" but "emotionally dry"
+“The Tenant” is a psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski. The main character, Trelkovsky, is confronted by a mental conflict after he moves into the new apartment. The relationships among himself and the other neighbours become weird. He  undergoes a transformation, and becomes the previous tenant. In the end, he dresses up again as a woman and throws himself out the apartment window in the manner of the previous tenant, Simone. He ends up bandaged in the same fashion as Simone, in the same hospital bed. But ultimately we see Trelkovsky and Simone's close friend Stella visiting Simone in the hospital.
+I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one person’s life onto another and the mutative relationships among the main charater and other tenants that we see through out the story. These transformations triggered the production of my book. Sampling all incidents through out the story, I juxtaposed all the dialogues containing the word "know". Each sentence that was extracted from the script became my re-constructed narration, and altered the perception of events. An external way of reading the film is presented in this book with all the existing images and texts.
+<gallery>
+File:Photobook present.jpg
+File:IMG 5533.JPG
+File:IMG 5526.JPG
+File:IMG 5400.JPG
+File:IMG 5530.JPG
+File:IMG 5531.JPG
+File:Inprocess1.jpg
-seeing the know in different context - orginising principle
+</gallery>
-overall structure text and image create, orgnise in a sequence
-keep the combinations as the same in the film, because you read in different pace
-the relation, database,
+<!--
+"The suggestive power of those arbitrary justapositions of words was so tupefying and dazzling, so brilliantly verified the Surrealist thesis and mentality, that the game became a system, a research method ... perhaps even a drag"
+-- recalled Simon(Adré Breton's wife)
+-->
-why choose this film, in relation to cimema, how film works (the time machine)
+<!-- very first draft of my intro to this book
-sharpen and clarify
+This book production stores images and texts(subtitles)taken from Roman Polanski's film, The Tenant. The images and texts are extracted when characters mention "know", and then (they) are reassembled into a form of book. Some of the pages are designed to be shorter than the rest, which provide the opportunity for the reader to read crosss pages, and may also with different reading paces.
-why do you choose the film
+The Tenant is a psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski. The main character Trelkovsky confronts on mental conflict after he moves into the new apartment. The relationships among him and the other neighbours become weird. He himself goes into a transformation to be the previous tenant. In the end, he dresses up again as a woman and throws himself out the apartment window in the manner of Simone who is the previous tenant and he ends up with being bandaged up in the same fashion as Simone in the same hospital bed, but we see his and Stella's own visit to Simone. I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one to the other. Not only the main characther but also the other charaters talk exactly the same thing transposing from one to another. These triggers the production of my book with which I provide all the comprehension from people involved in this story by juxtaposing their dialogues contains the word "know". Each sentences extracted from the film was under the construction of storyline about their understanding of the situation inside the film. But here in my book, I want to present an external way of reading the film with all the existing images and texts.
-how do you reorginise the film
-what the elements you use for them, subtitle(the term)
-core of the consturcturen, the character is forced to become sombody else
-deconstructure of the film - the structure of the film has other potential
-in digital age, people pretend to read fragments rather than whole story.
+As André Breton pointed out "the suggestive power of the arbitrary juxtapositions of words was so stupefying and dazzling." in the game of Exquiste Corpse. Here with my book project, I want to indicate the suggestive power of the juxtapositions of sentences, and more important of deconstructed narratives.
 -->
-This book production stores images and texts(subtitles)taken from Roman Polanski's film, The Tenant. The images and texts are extracted when characters mention "know", and then (they) are reassembled into a form of book. Some of the pages are designed to be shorter than the rest, which provide the opportunity for the reader to read crosss pages, and may also with different reading paces.
-The Tenant is a psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski. The main character Trelkovsky confronts on mental conflict after he moves into the new apartment. The relationships among him and the other neighbours become weird. He himself goes into a transformation to be the previous tenant. In the end, he dresses up again as a woman and throws himself out the apartment window in the manner of Simone who is the previous tenant and he ends up with being bandaged up in the same fashion as Simone in the same hospital bed, but we see his and Stella's own visit to Simone. I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one to the other. Not only the main characther but also the other charaters talk exactly the same thing transposing from one to another. These triggers the production of my book with which I provide all the comprehension from people involved in this story by juxtaposing their dialogues contains the word "know". Each sentences extracted from the film was under the construction of storyline about their understanding of the situation inside the film. But here in my book, I want to present an external way of reading the film with all the existing images and texts.
+<!-- allison helped me(but i changed again something afterwards in the first above version )
+This book was produced using images and texts (subtitles) taken from the Roman Polanski's film, “The Tenant”. The images and texts are extracted at moments when characters s”ay the word know", and then the frame and texts is reassembled into the form of book. Some of the pages are designed to be shorter than the rest, which provides the opportunity for the reader to read across pages, and at different intervals.
+“The Tenant” is a psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski. The main character, Trelkovsky, is confronted by a mental conflict after he moves into the new apartment. The relationships among himself and the other neighbours become weird. He  undergoes a transformation, and becomes the previous tenant. In the end, he dresses up again as a woman and throws himself out the apartment window in the manner of the previous tenant, Simone. He ends up bandaged in the same fashion as Simone, in the same hospital bed. Ultimately, we see Simon and his close friend Stella, visiting Trelkovsky in the hospital.
+I was obsessed by the whole transposing from one person’s life onto another. Not only the main character, but many of the other characters are seen speaking identical words and phrases to others we see through out the story. These transformations triggered the production of my book. Sampling all incidents through out the story, I juxtaposed all the dialogues containing the word "know". Each sentence that was extracted from the script became my re-constructed storyline, and altered the perception of events . But here in my book, I want to present an external way of reading the film with all the existing images and texts.
 As André Breton pointed out the suggestive power of the arbitrary juxtapositions of words in the game of Exquiste Corpse. Here with my book project, I want to indicate the suggestive power of the juxtapositions of sentences, and more important of deconstructed narratives.
+-->
+====Digital Book====
+From the fiction book The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr(1819-1821) by  E.T.A. Hoffmann to Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, and to the game of Exquisite Corpse developed by Surrealists writers, then to experimental literature group Oulipo, later on to William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, the works from all of these writers and artists showed the power of cut-ups and the fantasy from arbitrary juxtaposition. I found it is exactly what interests me most for now. In digital age, to all netizens cut-ups exist in everyday life, we receive more fragments, and alway be multitasking jumping one quickly to another. "we no longer watch films and TV, we watch databases" And the juxtaposition is no longer arbitrary. Our data get traced, we are feed by all those recommendations. But what I want to research more is not all these commercial strategies. But "to study online video is to study this intimate aspect of affect, no the theories of commercial repackaging that underlie common rhetoric about remediation." (Networks without A Cause, Geert Lovink) "The social is the core constitutive element of contemporary video practice and not some leftover redundant noise surrounding audiovisual content." So I am questioning myself what will affect people most in the database watching? This is also the topic of my self-directed research, which already got started from last Thematic Project (please refer to my mock-up kickstart project).
+For this digital book project, I am following the way of how the game of Exquisite Corpse developed. At initial time, the game requires several people involved to compose a sentence without knowing what words have been written down. Several years later, a question-and-answer varian on the Exquisite Corpse produced a curiously resonant definition:"What is André Breton? An amalgam of humour and a sense of disaster; something like a top hat." I was fascinated by this tasteful sentence/question and answer. So I use the video clips contain questions from the film The Tenant when characters say "know" within a question and put them on the left side of my webpage. I also extract possible answers from the subtile putting them accordingly on the right side of my webpage.  By scrolling the page viewer can scan each clip, only when scrolling to some certain places, the clips of questions will play and the texts of answers will be shown.
+By putting the existing material in different context, new connections can be made by the viewers.
+<gallery>
+File:Digital book1.jpg
+File:Digital book2.png
+File:Digital book3.png
+</gallery>