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Cuts To The Chase [...] the primary bias of the digital media environment is for distinction. Analog media such as radio and television were continuous, like the sound on a vinyl record. Digital media, by contrast, are made up of many discrete samples. Douglas Rushkoff 07.07.16

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Not The Prevailing Narrative The true nature of life - life is playing. Life is just play, and play is the essence of life. Frederick Leboyer

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Seeker’s Delectables Back of our own contemporary arts of the collagist, the assembler of forms, is the ancestral, protean concept, wider and deeper, of the poet as devotee of the ensemble. Robert Duncan, Changing Perspectives In Reading Whitman

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Revelations Of Interconnection Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. Learned Hand Cities are about juxtaposition. Richard Rogers

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Stray! I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable. Pat Metheny

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Combinatory Play Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. Albert Einstein

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Viva Voce Viva voce: Viva voce \Vi"va vo"ce\ (v>imac/"v[.a] v[=o]"s[-e]). [L.] By word of mouth; orally. viva voce n : an examination conducted by word of mouth [syn: {oral}, {oral exam}, {oral examination}]  I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together? Mark Bradford