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>Topics of the day:
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> 1. Kurt Schwitters -- Ursonate on the Web and related resources
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>Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 13:35:56 +0200
>From: Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Kurt Schwitters -- Ursonate on the Web and related resources
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>Dear All,
>
>This is an opportunity to introduce you to two remarkable web sites
>presenting Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate and related resources. These are
>the sites of Jack Ox, an artist who works in the area of visualisation
>and metaphor. She began her work in visualisation by encoding works of
>music that she transformed into paintings. Her largest and most important
>project is a transcription and rendering of Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate.
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>Jack’s first web site is at
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>http://intermediaprojects.org
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>When you are there, be sure to see the page that shows the Ursonate
>projected as a full transcription of the 800-foot-long painting for the
>Digital Dome Theatre at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa
>Fe, New Mexico.
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>http://intermediaprojects.org/pages/IntermediaProjectsPresentsUr.html
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>Jack is now doing full-stage sound performances of the Ursonate with
>performance artist Kristin Loree, and she is selling the full painting to
>raise funds for the not-for-profit Intermedia Projects organisation. You
>can see several of the exhibitions of the Ursonate at
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>http://intermediaprojects.org/pages/UrForSale.html
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>with links to her earlier Ursonate site at
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>jackox.net
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>The project had a fascinating relation to art history and intermedia. In
>the process of developing the project, Jack discovered a long-lost
>recording of Schwitters himself performing the Ursonate. Until this
>discovery, no one knew how Schwitters himself performed the work. The
>only available document was the full score by Jan Tschichold. The tape
>was authenticated by Schwitters’s son, Ernst, and made into a CD that was
>published by Wergo. Jack wrote the notes:
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>http://www.wergo.de/shop/en_UK/3/show,93601.html
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>More recently, an alternate and hitherto-unknown setting of the Ursonate
>was discovered in the Jean Brown collection at The Getty Archives. This
>is the basis of an interesting article by Nancy Perloff titled
>“Schwitters Redesigned: A Post-war Ursonate from the Getty Archives,”
>Journal of Design History Vol. 23 No. 2, pp. 195-203. Unfortunately,
>several images cannot be shown in the .pdf due to copyright issues. The
>doi is:
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>doi:10.1093/jdh/epq011
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>The catalogue to the Muzeum Sztuki Lodz exhibition of Jack Ox's
>visualised and painted rendition of the Ursonate is available on her
>Academia page, along with her PhD thesis on metaphor and several of her
>articles. (Full disclosure: I was Jack's thesis supervisor and a
>contributor to the Lodz catalogue.) Jack is currently a research fellow
>in the art and science program at the University of Texas at Dallas, and
>an editor of the art/science journal Leonardo.
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>https://utdallas.academia.edu/JackOx
>
>These materials will interest anyone with a fascination in Kurt
>Schwitters’s work, as well as those interested in data visualisation,
>metaphor, and the growing areas of art-science collaboration and
>intermedia. Intermedia Projects will interest those who are developing
>collaborative projects in the tradition established by Fluxus artist Dick
>Higgins.
>
>Yours,
>
>Ken
>
>Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The
>Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji
>University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL:
>http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-an
>d-innovation/
>
>Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and
>Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University
>Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne
>University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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