Yoav Ruda - Mutate (Tohu Visual Essay)
Channel: Tohu Magazine
Date: 2020-04-29

Yoav Ruda, Mutate, 2020, video, 2:39 min, virtual art images by Rein Bijlsm

Wiki information, personal insights, spoken word poetry, rap, and video samples coalesce into this audiovisual essay by Yoav Ruda. Dealing with cultural and social evolutions in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the artist mixes all of these ingredients to portray the critical moment we live in and to call for positive action.

Mutate
The constructive nature of disruption

I threw a boomerang at Comic-Con, I hit a mutant, broke a bone.
Sharpen your spear, dear, for years mutants have ruled the comic book and B movie sphere.
 
Mutate at the Tate
Evolve at the Met

Mutant - a new type of organism produced as the result of mutation. Without mutations, we would still be one-cell Amoeba,  swimming in the primal soup of the day.

In evolutionary biology, the engine of change is the mutation, a glitch, a disruption in the duplication process.

Mutants rule much more than geek land, mutants rule the world.
We are all mutants, all earthlings are, probably all ET lifeforms around any star.


Mutate at the Tate
Evolve at the Met


The mutation has got to have viral attributes to distribute itself.
The viral effect globally distributes languages, cultural myths, themes, memes, texts, technology and human knowledge in general.

an elevator pitch:
Ditch the kitsch & get ready to switch
the survival of the rich?
It’s just another glitch...

Mutate at the Tate
Evolve at the Met


In the digital age, duplication of content becomes part of the popular culture, accelerating the speed of the exchange of memes-generations.
Digital activists view the duplication of digital code as a natural right.
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While in science evolution natural selection manifests itself through the refutation process, in culture evolution natural selection can be referred to the taste of the future, the test of time.

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