DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller. Mixing, Mashup, Remix Culture 2008 4/8

http://www.egs.edu/ DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller / That Subliminal Kid lecturing about the role of mixing, mashup, and remix culture in aesthetics, philosophy and literature, the archival impulse, the function of the archive, and modes of production, connected to technology, audio, music, video, cinema, philosophy and his latest project in Antartica about global warming, sound and hypsographic architecture. Free public open video lecture with students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Paul Miller 2008
DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul D. Miller, 1970), is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. He is a professor at the European Graduate School where he co-teaches with Michael Schmidt an Intensive Summer Seminar.
Th work of DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, Paul D. Miller was featured in the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum, Paula Cooper Gallery and many other museums and galleries. In 2004 DJ Spooky published the book Rhythm Science (MIT Press), and a film, music, multimedia performance piece entitled: DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation. In 2008 Paul D. Miller published Sound Unbound, a collection of writing about sound art, digital media, and contemporary composition, edited by DJ Spooky, with writings from Brian Eno, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck D, Steve Reich, Cory Doctorow, Saul Williams, Pierre Boulez, Mendi & Keith Obadike, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jaron Lanier, Moby, and many others on MIT Press.
DJ Spooky created the following albums: Necropolis (Knitting Factory Works KFW 185), March 1996 Songs of a Dead Dreamer (Asphodel Records 0961), April 1996 Synthetic Fury EP (Asphodel Records 0110), February 1998 Haunted Breaks Volumes I and II (Liquid Sky Music), October and December 1998 Riddim Warfare (Outpost-Geffen CD), September 1998; (Asphodel Records Vinyl), December 2002 Under the Influence (Six Degrees PRCD 1056-2) (DJ mix record), September 2001 Songs of a Dead Dreamer (2002 Edition) (Asphodel Records 2009), January 2002 Modern Mantra (Shadow/Instinct SDW 135-2) (DJ mix record), May 2002 Optometry (Thirsty Ear THI 57121.2), July 2002 Drums of Death DJ Spooky vs. Dave Lombardo (Thirsty Ear), April 2005

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