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Ambient Fiction Reading System 01: A List of Things I Read Didn’t Read and Hardly Read for Exactly One Year |
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2006-07 |
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Tan Lin recorded for an entire year, in the form of blogposts, the titles of some of his daily readings including sometimes the his location (e.g. DINING ROOM TABLE), the time he spent on them, but without specifying if they occurred on paper or screen. The records were later published as an ebook. |
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Artist's Statement |
'What is the precise relation between reading, regarded as a social activity that takes place in a network, and writing, which also takes place in a social network? From which of these two perspectives is the text framed? Can it somehow be both a read and written text simultaneously? What would that mean? Clearly, the reception of the work is foregrounded as much as the production and dissemination. And furthermore, reading, in a web-based environment, crosses into writing, publication, distribution, and marketing. Is a Twitter feed a form of publication? or is it writing? or is it distribution that is “pulled” by readers who “subscribe”?'' |
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269 |
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Related Article |
“Uncreative Writing” by Kenneth Goldsmith, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/uncreative-writing/9780231149907, 2011. |
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Keywords |
ambiance, authoship, collection, context, process, quantification, reading, writing |
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