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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt">Dear All, </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt">Together with Open
Humanities Press, I am delighted to announce the first publication in my new
series, MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW.</p>
<p style="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="_Hlk25830760"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",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 building
this project, the artists collaboratively investigate persona-making,
performance-thinking, and applied remixology. Playfully presenting their
research as an intergenerational and intercultural ‘research band’ named MALK
(Mark Amerika / Laura Kim), both artists, individually and as a performance
duo, bring their own unique experiences and ontologically filtered ‘ways of
remixing’ to their intermedia art, writing and performance practice. </p>
<p>The research questions the artists initially presented to themselves were
unconventional: ‘Who am I this time?’ ‘What does it mean to share a sense of
humor?’ ‘What is an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility?’ 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.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt">Like all Open Humanities
Press books,<i> Remixing Persona i</i>s freely available at: <a href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/</a> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt">Further information about
the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series: <a href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt">Best wishes, </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt">Joanna<br></p>
<pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">-- </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Professor Joanna Zylinska</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Co-Head of Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Goldsmiths, University of London</span><br></pre><pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="http://www.joannazylinska.net/">http://www.joannazylinska.net</a></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Eco-Thoughts: An Interview in The Believer</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><a href="https://believermag.com/logger/eco-thoughts-an-interview-with-joanna-zylinska/">https://believermag.com/logger/eco-thoughts-an-interview-with-joanna-zylinska/</a> </span></pre><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"></pre>
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