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Irresponsible Mediums

Irresponsible Mediums


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In 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance, in Toronto Canada where whenever a player 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 Jennifer Shahade, two time U.S. Women's Chess Champion.

Praise for Irresponsible Mediums:

Marcel Duchamp's chess games played between 1922-1961 come alive with the Chessbard's translation of those games into poetry. This wonderful book by Aaron Tucker of (close to) 100 Opening, Middle, and End game moves generated from source poems by the author is a must read for Duchamp scholars, Digital Humanists, video game theorists, and chess fans. The poetry, along with the introduction by Jennifer Shahade, chess professional and co-author of Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess, sets the context for the art and performative aspect of game play. --Dene Grigar, Professor, Creative Media & Digital Culture; President, Electronic Literature Organization

As Marcel Duchamp observed, Beauty in chess is closer to beauty in poetry. The opposite is also often true. These poems are beautiful gambits that, like the best chess games, delight and intrigue with their elegant and intelligent play. --Gary Barwin, Winner of the Leacock Medal, and finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Governor General's Literary Award for Yiddish for Pirates
About the Author: Aaron Tucker is the author of four books: Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp, and the poetry collection punchlines, as well as two scholarly texts, Virtual Weaponry: The Militarized Internet in Popular Cinema and Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema (both with Palgrave Macmillan). His current collaborative project, Loss Sets, translates poems into sculptures which are then 3D printed (http: //aarontucker.ca/3-d-poems/); he is also the co-creator of The ChessBard, an app that transforms chess games into poems (http: //chesspoetry.com). In addition, he is a professor in the English department at Ryerson Universit


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781771663342
  • Publisher: Book Thug
  • Publisher Imprint: Book Thug
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 120
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp
  • Width: 132 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1771663340
  • Publisher Date: 05 Dec 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Weight: 231 gr


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