By B Camminga on January 11, 2017
By B Camminga on 11 January 2017 in
STORIES
In Post Apartheid South Africa a new generation of young artists are drawing on the country’s idiosyncratic past and its unsettled present. They express queer visions for the future. See Dope St Jude at the 8th Norient Musikfilm Festival 2017.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged 8. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Aluta, Apartheid, B Camminga, Bill of Rights, body or presentation, Cairo, Chain Gang, communities, Congo, culture, Desire, Dope St Jude, Drag, Eve Sedgwick, Gay, Gayle, Gender, Hlasko, Keep in Touch, Lesbian, LGBTI, masculinity, post-apartheid, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Queer, queer music, Race, Reciprocity, religion, Seismographic Sounds, sexuality, South Africa, Umlilo |
By Eduardo Navas on June 3, 2016
By Eduardo Navas on 3 June 2016 in
ACADEMIC
Sampling technology compresses the labor of producing in the studio. In the last part of his essay, Eduardo Navas explains how sampling puts the focus on selectivity as the crucial factor in the relation of labor and creativity.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged analogue technology, capital, capitalist, commercial, communication, compression, culture, data-mine, digital technology, digitalization, download, economy, Eduardo Navas, essay, feedback, flow, future, global networks, industry, information technology, innovation, instability, Knowledge, manipulation, pioneer, production, property, regeneration, regenerative culture, Regenerative Production, Remix, research, Sampling, Seismographic Sounds, Serato, Speech, trend, TV, TV commercial |
By Eduardo Navas on May 10, 2016
By Eduardo Navas on 10 May 2016 in
ACADEMIC
Knowledge is becoming fully quantifiable. In the fourth part of his essay, Eduardo Navas explains how the computer keyboard enables sampling work to create image, sound, and text.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged aesthetic, Chic, circulation, Contagion, Copy & Paste, culture, digital recordings, digitalization, Dj, Dub, Eduardo Navas, exchange, Good Times, Google, ideas, image, Knowledge, Lev Manovich, Martin Irvine, Mashup, Music, network, paradigm, postproduction, Rapper’s Delight, reconfiguration, recycled material, recycling, reflexive, regenerative culture, Remix, remixability, remixes, Sampling, Seismographic Sounds, selective, software, Sound, The Sugarhill Gang, Tony D. Sampson, virality
By Eduardo Navas on April 20, 2016
By Eduardo Navas on 20 April 2016 in
ACADEMIC
Nothing is original, just unique to the moment in which it is experienced. In the third part of his essay, Eduardo Navas analyzes Adornos book Minima Moralia and shows that even his idiosyncratic writing is built from samples.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged aphorisms, Author, Beloved, communication, Composition, Copyright, critical theory, criticism, culture, Data-mining, databases, Deleuze, dictionary, digital, digitalization, Eduardo Navas, essay, Frankfurter Schule, global communication, Google, Guattari, ideology, images, intellectual property, James Joyce, Language, media, memes, memory, Minima Moralia, Moby Dick, networked production, original, patterns, perception, phonemes, phrases, prognostication, Ralph Ellison, regenerative culture, repetition, sample, Sampling, search, search engines, Seismographic Sounds, sentence constructions, Social Media, speed, Technology, text-mining, The Invisible Man, Theodor Adorno, Toni Morrison, Ulysses, words, YouTube, Zefr |
By Theresa Beyer (Norient) on April 7, 2016
By Theresa Beyer (Norient) on 7 April 2016 in
BLOG
Queer feminist Swedish rapper Silvana Imam questions privileges and fights for a global feminist movement. However, the interview shows that her protest is not made out of empty slogans, but out of strong beliefs.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged age, art, Authenticity, belief, Boys, capitalist, conscious rapper, credibility, culture, Desire, feminism, feminist, Gender, Gender Roles, girls, Identity, Nina Simone, political activist, privileges, Protest, Queer, reality, religion, Revolution, Seismographic Sounds, sexuality, Silvana Imam, Simone de Beauvoir, skin, social class, society, sounds, Sweden, swedish, symbiosis, teachers, Theresa Beyer, Transgender, women |
