The Fibreculture Journal

CFP- Special Issue of the Fibreculture Journal: Exploring affect in interaction design, interaction-based art and digital art

By FCJManager ⋅ December 9, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Guest Editors: Thomas Markussen and Jonas Fritsch https://fibreculturejournal.org/ abstract deadline: February 27, 2011 (200-300 words) article deadline: June 30, 2011 publication aimed for: October, 2011 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: Thomas dot Markussen at aarch dot dk/ jonas dot…

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CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: Networked utopias and speculative futures

By FCJManager ⋅ November 19, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Editors: Susan Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller https://fibreculturejournal.org/ abstract deadline: February 20, 2011 article deadline: May 30, 2011 publication aimed for: November, 2011 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at; https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: Susan dot Ballard at op dot ac dot nz lizzie…

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Issue 16 – Counterplay

By FCJManager ⋅ July 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The star player is one who modifies expected mechanisms of channeling field-potential. The star plays against the rules but not by breaking them (Massumi 2002: 77). Unruly innovation is an intrinsic dimension of gaming. To claim that play is not a passive or neutral activity is hardly a groundbreaking observation. However, we believe that the…

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FCJ-105 Materiality of a Simulation: Scratch “Reading” Machine, 1931

By FCJManager ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Craig Saper Professor of Texts and Technology, University of Central Florida ‘Take any text speed it up slow it down run it backwards inch it and you will hear words that were not in the original recording new words made by the machine different people will scan out different words of course but some of…

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FCJ-104 Materialities of Law: Celebrity Production and the Public Domain

By FCJManager ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Esther Milne Media & Communications, Swinburne University of Technology The brand’s image and its customer’s self-image will be refracted through the ‘prism’ of a star’s persona and produce a new set of perceptions … the reason it is tricky is that celebrities are unusual brands in that they talk back and they may also change…

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FCJ-103 James Brown, Sample Culture and the Permanent Distance of Glory

By FCJManager ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Steve Jones University of Sussex But here I am, the man Who started it all, and I’m glad, ‘Cause I’m number one, original, I know I’m bad ‘I’m Real’, James Brown Perhaps unsurprisingly, the James Brown song ‘I’m Real’ (1988) features the man himself lending a vocal turn (or two) to the track. The song…

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FCJ-102 Sputnik Baby

By FCJManager ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Ian Haig School of Art, RMIT University Psycho maniac interblend, shoot it up! Ever since punks were spotted walking through the rain soaked dystopic future streets in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner(1981), a certain image of punk has been associated with ‘the future’; a kind of futuristic punk chic that also clearly owes something to the future agro…

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FCJ-101 How can you be found when no-one knows that you are missing?

By FCJManager ⋅ February 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Lisa Gye Media and Communicatons, Swinburne University ‘What the reader sees will not be what he hears’ James Joyce may have said this of Finnegans Wake ‘Since we have already said everything, the reader must bear with us if we continue on a while. If we extend ourselves by force of play. If we then…

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FCJ-100 Cultural Modulation and The Zero Originality Clause of Remix Culture in Australian Contemporary Art

By FCJManager ⋅ February 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Ross Rudesch Harley Professor of Media Arts, University of New South Wales Screenshot: ‘Astro Black: A History of Hip-Hop (Episodes 0-2)’ (2007-08) Soda_Jerk Pop Art’s ability to mash highbrow and lowbrow culture paved the way for Pop Tronic’s essentially mono-brow outlook… Pop Art strayed from Pop Tronics by whoring itself to generative creative arts such…

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FCJ-099 The Renewable Tradition (Extended Play Remix)

By FCJManager ⋅ February 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Mark Amerika Professor of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Quoting from his own short story ‘Death of the Novel’ Obviously there’s no progress in art. Progress toward what? The avant-garde is a convenient propaganda device, but when it wins the war everything is avant-garde, which leaves us just about where we were before….

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