RECord

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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...

“I didn’t have to start in the mailroom,” says one hitRECorder. “I didn’t have to climb any ladder rungs to get to this position. … I don’t eve...

At hitRECord not only does form follow function as with any adept organism; function pulses to form’s own rhythms and filiations. Regular operations such as RECording, RECommending...

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...

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 hitRECord Manifesto: just a mantra for making hearts beat a little harder. What is a mantra? Just some patterns and prayers which, according to Sanskrit records, promise creative tra...

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...

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

A RECord does not merely mirror the real;

it refashions it through the torsions of transcription.

But what, then, is a mirror ...

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...

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

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...

Please follow directions indicated by the saftey diagram if you experience dizziness, disorientation, or euphoria while in flight.

* To be paired ...

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 &...

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.

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

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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A RECord is a vessel. In gathering things together, it conceals in order to reveal.

* For The hitRECord Manifesto.

&...

A RECord is more than a text; it's also a texture.

* For The hitRECord Manifesto.

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 ...

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

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...

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

* To be paired with the inimitable IrmaVep's

i am who you are to me.

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

Some peddle creativity for profits. hitRECord earns money to make better art.