00 Remix before Remix [optional reading]

Before the age of mechanical reproduction – especially photography, sound recording, and video recording – it was difficult or impossible to use exactly someone else’s creation in your art. You could copy their painting or sculpture or tune, but you couldn’t literally lift their creation and drop it into your own. Literature – which did Read More …

performance abduction®

Performance Abduction [more properly, but awkwardly, recorded performance abduction] is my term for the unprecedented possibility (brought about by the rise of audio and video recording in the 20th century) of using the electronic reproduction (recording) of someone else’s performance as part of your own performance or recording. I feel this is a form of Read More …