[Commlist] Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object – new open access project

Together with Open Humanities Press, I am delighted to announce the 
first publication in my new series, MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW.

*Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital MediaObject from the Onto-Tales 
of the Digital Afterlife by MALK (MarkAmerika / Laura Kim)*

/Remixing Persona /is comprised of two components: a visual manifesto 
that doubles as a theoretical e-reader and a work of music video art. In 
building this project, the artists collaboratively investigate 
persona-making, performance-thinking, and applied remixology. Playfully 
presenting their research as an intergenerational and intercultural 
‘research band’ named MALK (Mark Amerika / Laura Kim), both artists, 
individually and as a performance duo, bring their own unique 
experiences and ontologically filtered ‘ways of remixing’ to their 
intermedia art, writing and performance practice.

The research questions the artists initially presented to themselves 
were unconventional: ‘Who am I this time?’ ‘What does it mean to share a 
sense of humor?’ ‘What is an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility?’ The 
artists were not interested in coming up with answers per se, but in 
using their artist skills to deploy both intuitive and improvisational 
performances that would generate a set of primary source material to 
remix into their creative project. This was when they decided to form 
MALK and began creating the Digital Afterlife music video artwork as a 
conceptual tool to investigate persona-making as a meta-practice. The 
culminating field of recombinatory expression that informs the 
production of this imaginary digital media object is an inversion of 
their practice-based research conducted in the TECHNE Lab at the 
University of Colorado.

Like all Open Humanities Press books, Remixing Persona is freely 
available at:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/remixing-persona/


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