The hitRECord Manifesto [draft NOTES]

Collaborating on hitRECord means attuning onself to what the Japanese call "Ma": the gaps or intervals that lend a RECord its characteristic shape. Expounds one especially attuned RECord...

The hitRECord Manifesto: where thought becomes image and image, thought, and together they tie the handsomest knot.

“Recordings deal with concepts through which the past is reevaluated, and they concern notions about the future which will ultimately question even the validity of evaluation.&rdqu...

hitRECord revolutionizes dominant modes of production and reception by reversing the assumptions upon which they  hardheartedly turn. Today, for instance, those in the business of &...

hitRECord confounds longstanding divisions between amateur and professional, and grants newfound dignity to both. According profits to all, it sees in every RECorder an amateur’s h...

“The major obstacle for amateurs is their sense of inferiority vis-à-vis professional productions. The very classification ‘amateur’ has an apologetic ring. But ...

The noted “fair use” exception to U.S. copyright law protects straightforward cases of critique and parody while strategically excluding the other complex relations media use...

manifesto

from the Latin manifestus, comprised of manus, denoting "hand,” and festus, which means "hit” or “stri...

"The Universe is not made of atoms; it is made of tiny stories." 

Muriel Rukeyser & Wirrow

* To be ...

"Storytelling is always the art of repeating stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained. It is lost because there is no more weaving and spinning to go on whil...

hitRECord is no stranger to gender politics and the struggle for sexual rights. It has its “Gender Bender” collaboration, and its “Human and Gay Rights” collab, t...

When in 1936 Walter Benjamin championed modern technological reproducibility for its revolutionary social potential, he deemed the Hollywood star system a reactionary and backward-lookin...

If YouTube is part of the web’s wild west, then hitRECord is a kindly shelter for frontiersmen and other fanciful passersby. The former: a vast, heartless terrain that distinguishe...

hitRECord creates its fair share of what might be deemed “environmental art”: from RECords of trees, birds, and sunsets to the “creation myth” and “RE: Citi...

 “The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.” Marshall McLuhan wrote this bit some nine years i...

"To an ever-increasing degree, the work [of art] reproduced becomes the reproduction of a work designed for reproducibility. From a photographic plate, for example, one can make any numb...

“Under existing dominant society, which produces the miserable pseudo-games of non-participation, a true artistic activity … appears in the form of scanda...

"It is impossible to understand social and cultural changes without a knowledge of the workings of me...

"If repetition can be found, even in nature, it is a power which affirms itself against law, which works underneath laws, perhaps superior laws. It puts law into question, it denounces its gener...

"You can never play a record the same way for the same crowd.

That's why remixes happen."

Paul D. Miller, a....

regularJOE calls himself the “director” of hitRECord, but it would be equally apt to title him its “curator.” From the Latin curatus, suggesting “c...

"No architect can predict the results of construction, [or] design free from the relationship with the other."

Kojin Karatani, Architecture as Metaphor (Th...

Today, more than ever, the medium is the mixage.

This RECord is designed to be a brainstorm in preparation for a series of Manifesto pages dedicated to the diverse multi-media techniques and practices carried out by hitRECorders. Pleas...

when is a figure

where is the ground

* To precede and introduce the doub...

If everyone signed the hitRECord Accord, we'd turn copyright law inside out.

A RECord isn't data; it's a social relation.

* To be featured very early in The hitRECord Manifesto--perhaps even in the first couple of pages.

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As long as copyright law permits only one-way engagements with media culture, hitRECorders will cruise the public domain in search of a two-way future. 

hitRECord embraces a scratch-and-stitch aesthetic, with visible breaks and seams affirming the multitudes behind every polished publication or exhibition. These blemishes trouble ideas ...

The REGULARITY is here ...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is be...

REmixing requires loving what one cannot possess while falling into an embrace. 

* To be paired with the inimitable IrmaVep's

"Substantially all ideas are second hand."

Mark Twain, "Letter to Anne Macy," Reprinted in Anne Sullivan Macy, The Story Behind Helen Keller (Garden City, N...

i am who you are to me.

* To be paired with jennyffer.maria's "IrmaVep" (http://www.hitrecord.org/records/1133064).

RECords divide like fire, not like pie. The more they are shared, the more there is for all. 

To RECord, or not RECord: that is the question.

At this time we'd like to remind you to please turn on all RECording devices.

"In a world of digital networks, the process of interactive creativity is contradicted by the legislation of property rights inherited from the industrial era. The capture of innovation ...

“To each of us, through our own particular history, has been given the potential for participating in a unique series of disclosures: the capacity to bring certain creatures and certain th...

RECords mark the threshold between is and isn't.

* To be paired with Ben Mcleod's "Outisider 1" for the Manifesto collab. Thanks to Ben f...