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Poem from the collection Twenty-First Century.

Inherent generation

http://jasoneppink.com/campfire Twenty-First Century Campfire is an aleatoric light sculpture intended for collective viewing in quiet, low-light, intimate spaces. The Campfire consists of a rescued television set topped by a protruding matrix of PVC pipe that diffuses live television broadcasts into a shifting array of rich colors and abstract shapes. These heavily-researched and targeted messages of consumption -- all provided free of charge by unwitting corporate collaborators -- are filtered into abstraction simply by scattering them inside the PVC piping, rendering the process entirely transparent to the curious observer. The work is intended to be experienced, like an actual campfire, at the center of a small gathering of seated viewers in a dark space. Situated accordingly, the installation becomes a space to be quiet, to meditate, to think, and to sit with others without the constant pressure to sustain conversation. When there is nothing to be said, the Campfire is a returning point, encouraging collective silence and shared meaningful moments of introspection. Ultimately, Twenty-First Century Campfire is an attempt to rescue one of our most deeply ingrained instincts -- the need to sit with others around a glowing source of light -- from the homogenizing three-act structure and the corporate consumption agenda.

Non-monumental relevance

As citizen, as consumer, as conversationalist, as contributor, as celebrity.

Narrated by Kelly Young, President and Executive Director of Twenty-First Century Democrats, this podcast explains the mission and vision of the Twenty-First Century Democrats.

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) The Hidden Shadows; (2) Meming Memories; (3) Traversing the Gravity of Longevity

At issue are the Ethics "of society," the (cathartic/quiescent/vicarious) literacies that lie beneath the (path/map/passage in the) celebration of a (fundamental/practical/metaphysical) culture.

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) An Ideological Pilgrimage; (2) Commodifying Info-spheres

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) As Is; (2) Devastation I; (3) Devastation II; (4) Getting the Boot

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) Collecting Consciousness; (2) Alerting Archives; (3) UPHEAVAL

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) Collecting Capital; (2) Reveneration - the Revenue Generation

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) Not That Love, (2) In Cultural Exile, (3) Rude Awakenings, (4) The Fabl(e/ous)

Poems from the collection TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: (1) The Post-Information Age, (2) Time in Media, (3) Passing Liking

Poems from the collection Twenty-First Century: (1) Whatever Forever What, (2) Proxy Epoch Moxie, (3) Merchantechnics, (4) Insulting Matters

POEMS from the collection Twenty-First Century: (1) Escalating Memories, (2) Forging the Frontier, (3) Legacy Portraiture, (4) Specialized Generality, (5) Resorting to Renaissance, (6) Keeping the Company

POEMS from the collection Twenty-First Century: (1) M is for Marketing, (2) Gallery-Aged Echoes, (3) Duplex Legacy, (4) Where to Now?, (5) Balancing Incoherence, (5) Tricks of the Trade

POEMS from the collection Twenty-First Century: (1) Arena Discourse, (2) Convenient Comfort, (3) Digital Assets, (4) Data Delivery, (5) Balancing Incoherence

POEMS from the collection Twenty-First Century: (1) Read Between the Ellipses, (2) Here and Now [coming and going], (3) Assembling Cerebricity, (4) Artful Economics, (5) Mystery and History Presently

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Twenty-First Release: Tapes n Tapes, Low, Spoon, The White Stripes, Arsenio Rodriguez, The Invisible Eyes, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, and Cat Power are played.

Narrated by Kelly Young, President and Executive Director of Twenty First Century Democrats, this podcast explains the mission and vision of the Twenty First Century Democrats.