A Sam Clemens Remix Video: "Pretend To Read It As A Book"

This is one of five YouTube posted video shorts from "A Sam Clemens Remix". "A Sam Clemens Remix" concert opened the 2007 National Media Education Conference (NMEC) on June 23, 2007. NMEC was sponsored by the Alliance for a Media Literate America http://www.amlainfo.org/ . The venue was St. Louis Missouri. The concert was produced by Paul Guzzardo.

"A Sam Clemens Remix" was a live -- largely improvisational -- thirty minute multimedia remix concert. The artists previously worked together on "The Secretbaker Cycle" of multimedia productions http://www.secretbaker.com/. In Secretbaker we used digital tools and toys to navigate through information environments; thousands of pages of FBI files. In "A Sam Clemens Remix" we grabbed on to three of Samuel Clemens' texts; "Life on the Mississippi", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "A Tramp Abroad". In the concert we explored how the texts and associated archival imagery might be used to fashion new narrative and myth building platforms.

Hemingway said Huckleberry Finn gave birth to the American novel. We're not novelists and don't intend to write novels, but we think Sam Clemens gave us the gear we need to plot a course just like he did Huckleberry Finn and his raft-mate Jim.


THE ARTISTS:
Paul Guzzardo: Designer and Writer
http://www.secretbaker.com/recursive-urbanism.html
Leon Lamont: Digital Disc Jockey- Composer - St. Louis
http://www.myspace.com/djleonlamont
Zlatko Cosic: Digital Video Jockey- Video Artist
http://www.eyeproduction.com/
Amin Hinds: Musician and videographer
Cora Lowry: Musician and Dancer
http://www.myspace.com/finalveil

A Sam Clemens Remix was praxis to a March 2007 polemical article on digital remix and landscape design. The article -- "Is There A Digital Future Landscape Terrain"- was published in AD - Architectural Design and was co-authored by Paul Guzzardo and Lorens Holm. The abstract can be found at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114171216/ABSTRACT

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Mark-Twain
• Samuel-Clemens
• Hermeneutics
• Cartography
• Cartographer
• Remix
• New-Media
• Media-Art
• Literature
• Media-Ecology