Vomitpost

So much has been happening these past few weeks. There was an art show (Cirque Des Arts) and I got some recognition for my piece. You can read the original proposal/documentation here. I haven't updated it in a while so I have quite a bit of material to post to the updates section. That project involves appropriation.



Which brings me to this class. I suppose it would be a good idea to start outlining my CATTt. First things first, the target: my public policy issue is piracy. I believe I'm starting to lean towards music piracy. This involves sampling or creating new music with bits of other music, and music piracy in general (i.e. downloading albums illegally).

I'm interested in this topic because, aside from being a pirate myself, it questions issues of creative control, authorship/ownership, and consumerism - all issues related to the readings we're doing this semester I feel. But according to Ulmer I have to be careful not to take sides - I have to be neutral. We are to understand our topic unbiasedly and then form a philosophy based on it.



We've finished reading WIP? and are now on to the Marchand. They fit into the Theory and Contrast slots of our CATTt respectively. How exactly they fit, I can't yet articulate but that's what we're taking the class for right? Perhaps I can better articulate them later when I'm not about to fall asleep.

Speaking of Vomitpost - here's a track called Vomitspit by MF Doom. The song is one of my favorites and contains a sample from "Happy You Should Be" by Mashmakhan