Irresponsible Mediums
Subtitle: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp
Publisher: Book*hug
Published: Oct 05, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781771663342
Description: "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."--
Notes: Source title: Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp