| Author: | Aaron Tucker | ISBN: | 9781771663359 |
| Publisher: | BookThug | Publication: | October 5, 2017 |
| Imprint: | BookThug | Language: | English |
| Author: | Aaron Tucker |
| ISBN: | 9781771663359 |
| Publisher: | BookThug |
| Publication: | October 5, 2017 |
| Imprint: | BookThug |
| Language: | English |
With an Introduction by World Chess Champion Jennifer Shahade
In 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance that took place in Toronto. Whenever Duchamp or Cage moved a piece, it generated a musical note until the game was transformed into a symphony.
Inspired by this performance, Irresponsible Mediums—poet and academic Aaron Tucker's second full-length collection of poems—translates Duchamp's chess games into poems using the ChessBard (an app co-created by Tucker and Jody Miller) and in the process, recreates Duchamp's joyous approach to making art, while also generating startling computer-made poems that blend the analog and digital in strange and surprising combinations.
With an Introduction by World Chess Champion Jennifer Shahade
In 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance that took place in Toronto. Whenever Duchamp or Cage moved a piece, it generated a musical note until the game was transformed into a symphony.
Inspired by this performance, Irresponsible Mediums—poet and academic Aaron Tucker's second full-length collection of poems—translates Duchamp's chess games into poems using the ChessBard (an app co-created by Tucker and Jody Miller) and in the process, recreates Duchamp's joyous approach to making art, while also generating startling computer-made poems that blend the analog and digital in strange and surprising combinations.
