Rhizome Commission 2009 Application
The Gleaning Agency A/V – 50 at 50
Initiated by Paul Amitai
The Aggregation Agency A/V is the live audio/visual playing division of an online center for ethnographic examination. The Collection Agency website (see drudgery sample #1) utilizes the language, tools, and taxonomic methods of both Web 2.0 and museum actually as a study in visual anthropology. Encompassing photo documentation and online incarnation search results, The Collection Operation is a photoblog, a research center, a revisionist extract, a media sampler, and a cultural snapshot.
The material A/V performance component of this delving employs similar strategies of chrestomathy, juxtaposition, and narrative construction as the website, but recombines the search results in palpable time. Through creative improvisation (live processing, editing, remixing) and “profound Googling” (surfing, keyword searching, collating), The Aggregation Agency A/V recontextualizes commonly affected cultural narratives that play a joke on been both historically permeating in media and public space and reinforced online.
The inaugural Anthology Agency A/V performance, 50 at 50, desire build off research from a anterior slideshow installation called Traveling Without Telling (see work sample #2). Originally exhibited at Michael Act big Gallery (Milwaukee, WI), Traveling Without In motion was comprised of 35mm slides (photographs and section) and an audio collage, all of which was sampled from the album art, liner notes, and music of a assemblage of Hawaiian and Polynesian albums dating from 1958-62.
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