User:Marlon/Graduate Research Seminar
Project Proposal
Texts, projects, images
- Texts
- www.textfiles.com (Jason Scott)
An archive of mostly pre-Internet ASCII-texts and art, created with the limitation of 128 characters.
"There are some ugly things down in these archives; there are narcissistic ravings from pre-adolescent social misfits. There are calls for anarchy. There's satanism, there's racism, there's all the -isms in the book lurking in the words. But there's hope, too. There's excitement, there's joy, there's every manner of feeling being crammed down into ASCII and posted for the world to find. It's a spectrum of humanity, and this is what I hope you'll find, buried there, among the text. Enjoy."
Related: Florian Cramer (2013) Anti-Media. In particular, chapter 2.7 "Ctrl > Alt > Delete". On new literature and expiration dates, the dependency of electronic text on technology. And the permanent, archivable quality of an ASCII-file.
- In Defense of the Poor Image (Hito Seyerl) - via Michaela :)
"The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities. It is about defiance and appropriation just as it is about conformism and exploitation."
A great overlap between the research fields of my previous and more current projects.
Ten years Pirate Bay, time to move on?
"The site itself can't be divorced from its cultural context, the hacktivist digital dissidence scene. [..] This is the heart of Pirate Bay's tenacity. It's no longer just about the service it provides, it's because Pirate Bay has come to symbolise web liberty for many."
- Projects that inspire!
Face Doek, Noortje van Steenis (18)
Martin John Callanan is an artist researching an individual's place within systems.
Worklog
- 25/09/2013
Currently working on a '.NFO-file family tree'. And looking into BBS-history.