Tracing Invisible Lines (eBook)

An Experiment in Mystoriography

David Prescott-Steed (Autor)

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2019
177 Seiten
Parlor Press, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-64317-077-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This practice-led book adopts Gregory Ulmer's 'Mystory' as a framework for exploring the intersections of media, culture and creative disposition. The writing is self-reflexive and experimental, pushing the boundaries of the pedagogical genre by applying a pattern-based, new media logic to the field of conceptual sound-art practice.

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TRACING INVISIBLE LINES is a critical autoethnographic text built around Gregory Ulmer’s concept of the “Mystory.” Dedicated to the enhancement of imagination and innovation in a digital-media saturated society, Ulmer’s Mystory is a creative research method that draws narratives from three domains of discourse (personal, professional, popular). Analysing these domains means generating fresh insight into the deep-seated emblems that drive the creative disposition, or “invariant principle,” of the practice-led researcher. Here, the mystoriographical approach has mobilized an exploration of the interrelations between self and society, between memory and imagination, as well as between industry-driven design-arts education and experimental sound-art practice (prioritizing the sonic, the perambulatory, careering). As a result, the Mystory fosters critical awareness of the socio-cultural instruments of creative inspiration and perspiration.

Reflexive in intent and experimental in approach, David Prescott-Steed’s hybrid writing style moves freely between art historical, biographical and autobiographical, academic and speculative moods. This book’s emphasis on an electronic, investigative sound-based practice finds it treading new ground between the sonic arts and the field of electracy; through its addition of sound and music to the genre, this book extends the scope of studies into Ulmer’s work beyond English literature and the ocularcentric arts, offering a new handbook for sonic conceptual art practice.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Electracy and Transmedia Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Digital Media • discourse • Research • Scholarly Writing • Ulmer
• ISBN-10: 1-64317-077-5 / 1643170775
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64317-077-0 / 9781643170770