Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object – new open access project

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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
=E2=80=98research band=E2=80=99 named MALK (Mark Amerika / Laura Kim), both=
 artists,
individually and as a performance duo, bring their own unique experiences
and ontologically filtered =E2=80=98ways of remixing=E2=80=99 to their inte=
rmedia art,
writing and performance practice.

The research questions the artists initially presented to themselves were
unconventional: =E2=80=98Who am I this time?=E2=80=99 =E2=80=98What does it=
 mean to share a sense
of humor?=E2=80=99 =E2=80=98What is an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility?=
=E2=80=99 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:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/

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

Best wishes,

Joanna

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Professor Joanna Zylinska

Co-Head of Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Goldsmiths, University of London

http://www.joannazylinska.net



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<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0pt">Dear All,=C2=A0</p>

<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0pt">Together with Open
Humanities Press, I am delighted to announce the first publication in my ne=
w
series, MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW.</p>

<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0pt"><b>Remixing Persona: An
Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-Tales of the Digital Afterlife=
 by
MALK (Mark Amerika / Laura Kim)</b></p>

<p><a name=3D"_Hlk25830760"><em><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&qu=
ot;,sans-serif">Remixing
Persona </span></em></a>is comprised of two components: a visual manifesto =
that
doubles as a theoretical e-reader and a work of music video art. In buildin=
g
this project, the artists collaboratively investigate persona-making,
performance-thinking, and applied remixology. Playfully presenting their
research as an intergenerational and intercultural =E2=80=98research band=
=E2=80=99 named MALK
(Mark Amerika / Laura Kim), both artists, individually and as a performance
duo, bring their own unique experiences and ontologically filtered =E2=80=
=98ways of
remixing=E2=80=99 to their intermedia art, writing and performance practice=
. </p>

<p>The research questions the artists initially presented to themselves wer=
e
unconventional: =E2=80=98Who am I this time?=E2=80=99 =E2=80=98What does it=
 mean to share a sense of
humor?=E2=80=99 =E2=80=98What is an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility?=E2=
=80=99 The artists were not
interested in coming up with answers per se, but in using their artist skil=
ls
to deploy both intuitive and improvisational performances that would genera=
te a
set of primary source material to remix into their creative project. This w=
as
when they decided to form MALK and began creating the Digital Afterlife mus=
ic
video artwork as a conceptual tool to investigate persona-making as a
meta-practice. The culminating field of recombinatory expression that infor=
ms
the production of this imaginary digital media object is an inversion of th=
eir
practice-based research conducted in the TECHNE Lab at the University of
Colorado.</p>

<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0pt">Like all Open Humanities
Press books, <i>Remixing Persona</i> is freely available at: <a href=3D"htt=
p://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/">http://www.=
openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/</a>=C2=A0</p>

<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0pt">Further information about
the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series: <a href=3D"http://www.openhumanitiesp=
ress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.=
org/books/series/media-art-write-now/</a></p>

<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0pt">Best wishes,=C2=A0</p>

<p style=3D"margin-bottom:0pt">Joanna<br></p>

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pt">-- </span></pre><pre><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,san=
s-serif;font-size:11pt">Professor Joanna Zylinska</span></pre><pre><span st=
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f Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies</span></pre><pre=
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Goldsmiths, University of London</span><br></pre><pre><span style=3D"font-f=
amily:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href=3D"http://www.=
joannazylinska.net/">http://www.joannazylinska.net</a></span></pre><pre><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">=C2=
=A0</span></pre><pre><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-se=
rif;font-size:11pt">Eco-Thoughts: An Interview in The Believer</span></pre>=
<pre><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:11=
pt"><a href=3D"https://believermag.com/logger/eco-thoughts-an-interview-wit=
h-joanna-zylinska/">https://believermag.com/logger/eco-thoughts-an-intervie=
w-with-joanna-zylinska/</a> </span></pre><div class=3D"gmail_signature" dir=
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