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About jan—animasuri

anima suri (a.k.a animasuri, animasuri, animasuri, animasuri’10, animasuri’11) animasuri is an ongoing project using technologies as media, text as sound and sometimes visuals as odors. animasuri is trans-media. It is possibly mixed with irony, possibly with salad or coconuts; depending on the gaseous nature of transatlantic chatter. animasuri is a rational, calculated forecast of the surreal. It comments and reflects on the perceptions of daily experiences while losing all grips with it. It is highbrow on a low hanging belly. animasuri provides surrealist BrainNnocularZ containing contextual media from teaspoons to nailtrimmings. Some of animasuri’s forms drink bear, or cuddle beer. Some pick noses, or snooze with pixies. Others tap on keys or rather let them tap on others. Therefor, animasuri is clearly straightshooting vegan. animasuri is cerebrally monkey-styled. animasuri browses through the intertwined visual corridors connecting sound art, visual aberrations, appropriationist art, sound poetry and the spoken or written word. As source material visual bits, conceptual queues or soundbites are derived from pre-existing sonic or other materials, artificial creations and digital errors, environmental record-keeping, bio-confabulation and appropriation of context. animasuri is ex- in the premature sense of the word. Etymologically, animasuri is a French-like sourir pickpocketing an Anglican feminist Latin soul. animasuri is not French nor English nor American and surely not Spanish or Brazilian; it is homi in a Bhabha-esque swirl. It is balance found in the chaos of established stereotypes while acknowledging male nipples are trans-national and universally misunderstood. As a reflection of an extrinsically-labeled happily married white Caucasian Judeo-Christian heterosexual Buddha-lover, animasuri finds harmonious solace in Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” without any sexual troubling implications. Politically left-free, animasuri is capitalistically comfy bathing in loyal conservative strands amidst its progressive left libertarian conceptualizations with a-communist socialist twists. animasuri contradicts therefor is not.

Transmediated poetry 001 | The Grid: Object #002

a poem is a piece of writing that “partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.” [*1] A grid has … Continue reading

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Reality Appropriated.

on this blog’s reality page a collection of definitions for virtual reality, real virtuality, augmented reality, hyperreality can be found. In a MIT Press publication of this month, Hello Avatar. Rise of the Networked Generation, reality is appropriated yet again. … Continue reading

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The Purposeless Art Series | Object 001

While reviving an old 1981 text by Rosalind Krauss published in her MIT’s October journal touching on The Originality of the Avant-Garde, an eye-opening perspective on Rodin‘s reproduction processes and the mechanics surrounding his The Gates of Hell was cast … Continue reading

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Digital and Digitized Objet Trouvé

An objet trouvé is according to the Oxford Dictionary an object “found or picked up at random and considered aesthetically pleasing.” Wikipedia introduces it as follows: “The term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) or readymade—describes art created … Continue reading

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Digitized Urbanity

The process behind the following photograph sequence is quasi identical to the Architectural Orphanage Series. The work is thus also simplistic, non-obtrusive and intangible media technology hacking with an abstract artistic result. As in a petri dish one can culture … Continue reading

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transtechno modding | ScanDrip Series—Driplight 003

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appropriation art

DRAFT v1.0 …open for rebuttal and suggestions . . . While open for refutation or fine-tuning, I have observed that appropriation—as part of the larger scope of  [mechanical] reproduction—in the arts (and to a lesser extent in content|media|communication) can be … Continue reading

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