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Between July 3 and 25 of 2013, San Francisco-based artists COLL. EO walked through the streets of Liberty City, the fictional metropolis of Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, 2008) under the guise of Vito Acconci. Titled Following Bit, the performance was meant as a replay of Acconci's seminal Following Piece (1969). Forty-four years earlier, Acconci followed for an entire month a random person each day in New York, stopping only if they entered a private space. Acconci typed up an account of each "pursuit", and sent a report to a different member of the art community the subsequent month. COLL. EO's 2013 replay generated an enormous set of data, consisting of 23 digital videos in high definition over 118 gigabyte in size; 13300+ digital photos; 60 digital prints; 23 written accounts sent in tweet form, plus several typewritten pages of notes, framed and mounted to a board. A Game Art walkthrough, this book provides a unique, in-depth documentation of Following Bit and the related art mod Grand Theft Vito (2013) through texts, screengrabs, annotations, and a long conversation between COLL. EO and San Francisco-based artist Carlo Ricafort. COLL. EO is a collaboration between Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti.

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments Foreword: Totems without Taboos: The Exquisite Corpse Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Algorhythms of the Exquisite Corpse Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger
• Part One: The Ludic
• 1. From One Exquisite Corpse (in)to Another: Influences and Transformations from Early to Late Surrealist Games
• Anne M. Kern
• 2. "This is Not a Drawing"
• Susan Laxton
• 3. Events and the Exquisite Corpse
• Ken Friedman
• 4. Cutting Up the Corpse
• Oliver Harris
• Part Two: Artistic Collectivity and Literary Creation
• 5. The Corpse Encore/Apres Exquis
• Ingrid Schaffner (with a contribution by Elizabeth Finch)
• 6. The Exquisite Corpse Is Alive and Well and Living in Montreal
• Ray Ellenwood
• 7. An Anatomy of Alfred Chester's Exquisite Corpse
• Allen Hibbard
• 8. "together in their dis-harmony": Internet Collaboration and Le Cadavre Exquis
• Michael Joyce
• Part Three: Academia
• 9. Academia's Exquisite Corpse: An Ethnography of the Application Process
• Craig Saper
• 10. Dead Men Don't Wear Pixels: The Online Exquisite Corpse and Process-based Institutional Critique
• Davis Schneiderman and Tom Denlinger
• Part Four: Recomposing the Body
• 11. Exquisite Theater
• Kimberly Jannarone
• 12. Howling: The Exquisite Corpse, Butoh, and the Disarticulation of Trauma
• Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
• 13. "You Make Such an Exquisite Corpse": Surrealist Collaboration and the Transcendence of Gender in Hedwig and the Angry Inch Don Dingledine
• Works Cited Contributors
• Index.
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In a parlor game played by the Surrealist group-the foremost avant-gardists of their time-participants made their marks on the quadrants of a folded sheet of paper: a many-eyed head, a distorted torso, hands fondling swollen breasts, snarling reptilian-dog feet descending from an egg-shaped midsection. The "Exquisite Corpse, " as it was called, is still very much alive, having found artistic and critical expression from the days of the Surrealists down to our own. This method has been used in collective artistic protocols as the "rules of engagement" for experimental art, as a form of social interaction, and as an alternative mode of critical thinking. This collection is the first to address both historical and contemporary works that employ the ritual of the cadavre exquis. It offers a unique overview of the efforts of scholars and artists to articulate new notions of crossing temporal and spatial boundaries and to experience in a new way the body's mutability through visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic frames. Bringing together diverse writers from across disciplinary boundaries, this volume continues the cultural and methodological innovations that have unfolded since the first days of the "Exquisite Corpse.".
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• Culture and Civilization.- Public Goods.- Patronage.- Changing Attitudes.- Evolution in Science.- Perfection in Art.- Economic Principles.
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This book deals with the economic aspects of changing attitudes in arts and sciences. The effects of the public good character of culture, along with the very long production period and lifetime for its products, are emphasized, since both contribute to the failure of normal market solutions. Embodiment of ideas, and the consequences of modern reproduction technology for protection of property rights are closely examined.
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