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Vinyl As Event: Record Store Day And The Value-Vibrant Matter Nexus, Eliot Bates Sep 2019

Vinyl As Event: Record Store Day And The Value-Vibrant Matter Nexus, Eliot Bates

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Why would anyone purchase expensive, natural resource-intensive, and seemingly obsolete material carriers of music when streaming providers provide unlimited access to over 40 million songs for a small monthly fee? As I will show, we can no longer assume that contemporary interest is driven solely by a collector’s market or because of the audible qualities of the vinyl listening experience, and must attend to the many ways people engage with record objects today – and by extension, the vinyl record as an ontological multiple. Through an analysis of Record Store Day 2015 and affiliated phenomena including YouTube unboxing videos, other …


Ev-Ent-Anglement: A Script To Reflexivey Extend Engagement By Way If Technologies, Alexandra Juhasz Jan 2019

Ev-Ent-Anglement: A Script To Reflexivey Extend Engagement By Way If Technologies, Alexandra Juhasz

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We discuss an art project that links entaglements and events and thinks about cutting pasting and bleeding.