[spectre] Mckenzie Wark in Conversation with Montgomery Cantsin

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

Mckenzie Wark in Conversation with Montgomery Cantsin

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/mckenzie-wark-conversation-montgomery-cantsin

Since the Nineties (at least), Mckenzie Wark has been writing critical 
texts that have raised the bar in countless conversations regarding 
networked culture, “weird global media events,” the philosophy of open 
source, game theory, and so on. He’s also been known for his active and 
ongoing engagement with a certain body of ideas associated with the 
Situationist International (S.I.)–a coalition of subversive thinkers and 
doers who coalesced in Europe around 1957 (to drift, drink, and détourn).

In spite of everything having already turned to shit, Wark kindly met 
with Brooklyn’s Montgomery Cantsin on the 16th of May, 2013, in 
Manhattan. Prior to a show and tell–of Wark’s 3D-printed Guy Debord 
Action Figures (“His action is smoking,” says Wark) and Cantsin’s 
metagraphic tattoo (from a design by Isidore Isou)–the two spoke briefly 
about philosophy, history, science, and technology. Wark would soon be 
on his way to the U.K. where (in addition to doing an event at 
Furtherfield) he’s headed for a speaking engagement (for his new 
book–just published by Verso–Spectacle of Disintegration) that’ll put 
him right alongside the former Situationists Alice Becker-Ho and 
Jacqueline de Jong.

Montgomery Cantsin is an emerging Brooklyn-based intermedia artist. 
Cantsin's visual collage work is currently included in the Hayward 
Touring group show "Outrageous Fortune," while Cantsin's audio collage 
work has recently appeared online at HTML Giant. Also a 16MM film freak, 
Cantsin has worked as a researcher for such found-footage filmmakers 
Craig Baldwin, Bill Morrison, and Ben Rivers. Cantsin currently makes 
GIFs for the Berlin-based group Network Awesome.

Also more info about -- McKenzie Wark's presentation of his latest book 
The Spectacle of Disintegration at Furtherfield 25th May
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/mckenzie-wark-presents-his-latest-book-spectacle-disintegration


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