Irresponsible Mediums

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Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781771663366

<b>With an Introduction by World Chess Champion Jennifer Shahade</b><br><br>In 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance that took place in Toronto. Whenever Duchamp or Cage moved a piece, it generated a musical note until the game was transformed into a symphony.<br><br>Inspired by this performance, <i>Irresponsible Mediums</i>&mdash;poet and academic Aaron Tucker's second full-length collection of poems&mdash;translates Duchamp's chess games into poems using the ChessBard (an app co-created by Tucker and Jody Miller) and in the process, recreates Duchamp's joyous approach to making art, while also generating startling computer-made poems that blend the analog and digital in strange and surprising combinations.