B-Side Wins Again

babel, amsterdam

here we go y'all, time to play ball
athletic gestural poet.

food for the brain, beats for the feet
, or
that's what Chuck D told me
when he D'd it up so sweet
, and

Balso and Beck speak bball, too, with the
jab step pitter patter pen to paper platter
, and

BB bootyshakes the late-night bebop backbeat
at the Happy sweaty hepcat hardwood affair
, and

Bebe peeps the love for a future nostalgia
no-look bounce pass hard drive to nowhere
, and

Baby Jesus leaps from the free throw line
presidential prophecy in his Air Force Ones.

Date: August 17, 02010
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sportsBabel » a stitch in time says:
September 15th, 2010
[...] both eye and skin, the athletic gestural poet is not dependent on lighting conditions, neither sun nor clouds. she seeks not exposure but [...]

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sportsBabel examines the aesthetics, politics and poetics of sport and physical culture, weaving between materiality, information, intuition and intellect. The notes posted here should be understood as emerging from an ongoing program of research-creation.

Threads of inquiry include: the security-entertainment complex and the militarization of sport; mediated sport as a spectrum of interactive possibility; the experiential qualities of postmodern sporting spaces; the cyborg body athletic manifest as mobile social subject; and the potential politics of a sporting multitude.

sportsBabel is produced by Sean Smith, a writer and artist from Toronto and a doctoral student at the European Graduate School of Media and Communications in Switzerland. Also a lecturer at various universities in Canada (curriculum vitae), his dissertation is titled "On Performing the University of Disaster."

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The Department of Biological Flow is a project of research-creation by Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler exploring the concept of the moving human body as it is integrated with broader information networks of signal and noise.

The reference is from George Lucas' epic 1971 movie, THX 1138, in which a state-controlled intensification of communication processes manages every facet of daily life in a futuristic society, regulating the flux of all human subjects in work, leisure and love.

Though the Department exists in homage to Lucas’ vision, our consideration of biological flow seeks to reinvigorate the agency of the human subject in its negotiations with economic and political structures both material and immaterial.

www.departmentofbiologicalflow.net

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