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A flash artifact project in critical remediation by Danny Snelson
Situating the criminal mastermind of Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler within the webs of digital culture spun by contemporary technologies |
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1) MABUSE FOR NAZIMOVA — July 2, 2010 Solo performance by Danny Snelson at the 14 Karat Cabaret in Baltimore. Hosted by Ric Royer with further performances by Dan Deacon and Lauren Bender. [See script at page bottom.] Snelson Mabuse Baltimore Carabet by dss-edit 2) GERTRUDE V. MABUSE — July 22, 2010 AMJ Crawford and Danny Snelson (ex libris)
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A call-and-response performance fresh out of the boxed-in world of yr average poetry reading or video projection, AMJC &Danny Snelson re-stage a historical spectacle frm within the gaming networks of contemporary culture.Tender Buttons meets German Expressionist cinema with more than a dash of Super Smash Bros Melee. See Crawford's MILK, a midi video organ (AMJ's signature vonome) rocking a database of selected YouTube clips derived from Stein's 1914 Tender Buttons face off against Snelson's THE DARK CLOUD OF DR. MABUSE, an investigation into the nefarious webs of contemporary criminal activity embedded in Fritz Lang's 1922 film, Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler. : : Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford is an artist, performer, and writer currently studying at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Portugal, the author of Morpheu (BlazeVOX 2009). He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Danny Snelson's work as a writer, editor, and archivist can be found on UbuWeb, PennSound, Eclipse, free103point9, Aphasic Letters, Primary Information, No Input Books, and </no-body>. His new press—Edit Publications—releases a dozen books expanding Tan Lin's Seven Controlled Vocabularies at Printed Matter on July 29, 2010. : : Josef Horacek said... I saw AMJ Crawford perform with Danny Snelson at post_moot (Miami U, Oxford, OH) a few weeks ago and had a similar impression. There is nothing gratuitous or half-baked about the way they use technology; it was, to borrow your own words, composed, impassioned, and motivated. Their performance was almost like a punk concert: loud, fast, with a lot of political force. It seemed to elicit a different kind of response from the audience, too: a sort of spontaneous immersion rather than willed concentration, if that makes any sense. Some of it has to do with the nature of their writing - lists, catalogs, language lifted from popular culture - but the manner of presentation played a big role as well. A poetry reading can be many things and liked that one a lot. 7:28 PM [Comment appended to Nada Gordon's ~~ululations~~ blog] : : : : 
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AMJ Crawford & Danny Snelson
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Script (7.2.10 Version) [ Slide - Opening titles ] Thank you Bucky, thank you all for coming. I'm so pleased to be here in this exciting new projections series to share some ongoing research into the dark webs of cinematic history, haunted technology, network dispersion, and digital remediation. A research that has recently centered on an exploration of the Mabuse system initiated in the 1922 film "Dr Mabuse: Der Spieler." I'd like to present the figure of Mabuse as a envelope or container (another kind of toy) for a reading, where the reading is nested within presentation formats including projection, quotation, poetry, lecture, and storytelling. This performance is for Nazimova. [ Slide - 1,000 Eyes: Mabuse ] Perhaps Sir Arthur Conan Doyle inscribed the figure of Mabuse most accurately with his description of notorious Fu Manchu: [ Slide - Marketplace ] He is the napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organiser of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web a thousand radiations, and he well knows well every quiver of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organised. [ Blank Slide - Crunchy Sound ] Mabuse stands as the archetypal master enunciator of networked technology, a parasitical master criminal whose counter-protocological exploits rival those of the cinema (the network) itself. Manifest already in the Mabuse of 1922, and extended over thirteen direct spin-offs and innumerable rip-offs, the Mabuse figure consistently plays a metonym for the shadow side of new media and modern technology. Like a zombie bot-net or sleeping virus, Mabuse continues to play through the Internet. [ Black Slide, Noise, Brute Force List ] "Brute Force List"--a tool used to break into someone's password-protected material via an immense list of possible passwords. While these are mostly boring alphabetic lists, many hackers include some "educated guesses" at the opening of the list, a utilitarian type of "creative writing" that I find very compelling. Here I'm collaborating with E LIT 3 Man, or in leetspeak: eliteman, reediting the opening to his "pass-listy.txt" file. Brute Force List iloveu iloveyou ihateyahoo yahoosux yahoosucks yahoosuxdicks fuckyahoo fuckyou fucku hateme hateyou hatetheworld ihacku imahacker imacracker visualbasics visualbasic vb php http qwerty foundgod iluvsatan ilovesatan sixsixsix 666 lonleyheart lovablegirl coolguy badguy smoothtalker shitfuck fuckaduck sweetgirl sweetguy telnethacker bushrocks irock yourock sherocks herocks foreverandaday peachesncreme peachesandcreme imfine controlfreak freakofnature ilovepussy ilovedick imapimp imawhore imalesbian 420pimp 420smoker buzzed24/7 buzzed247 realitybites digitalman digitalmafia digitalmadness creatorofevil creatorofgood nonetheless systemacess systemacces systemfuck fucksystem accesssystem hacksessystem icantspell icanspell hacktelnet telnethack fuckmebaby fuckmebaby69 idontcare whocares idontgiveafuck jerryspringer cracksearch crackthis fuckme hackthis passwordforme eatshitndie eatshitanddie eatshitandie eetshitanddie eatsshitnddie eatsshitandie yousuckdick yousuckcock trytohack hackthishit hackthisshit hackthisshitdammit hackthisshitcock hackthisshitcockpussy hackthisshithackthisshit how clever are you how clever am i how clever are we how clever should we how clever could we how clever could be how clever should be ucantcrackshit crackthisfucker crackthisfinger ucracklikeagirl ucracklikeahomo ucracklikeabitch ucracklikeaboy crackthisfuckinid crackthisfuckingid homealone wishyoucouldcrack wishyouhadcrack wishyoushouldcrack wish i could crack guessmypassword guessmypass guessmyass goodluckcracking youllneverguess sonofabitch sonuvabitch sonofafuckingbitch nocrackingthisid crackingcomplete crackhacking hackcracking love2hack love2crack lovetocrack lovetohack love2fuck lovetofuck yahoochat madeintheshade relayswitch localdisk networkaccess privatedrive publicjive privatelive publichive localdiskdrive shitonme ilovecracking ilovecrackin ilovehacking ilovehackin lifesabitch serverside clientside come inside exclamation at numeral dollar percentage shift $$$ * +++ ++++ +++++ ++++++ +++++++ +_)(*&^%$#@!~ plus underscore left parenthesis right parenthesis asterisk ampersand shift percentage dollar numeral at exclamation tilda
- -- --- ---- ----- ------ ------- 0 000 007 0246 0987654321 2000 2001 2012 2112 187 247 2pac Tupac 2pacrules fuck2pac 420 69 6969 696969 69696969 6969696969 696969696969 711 7654321 7up 87654321 90210 911 [ CPU Sound - Next Slide - Quelltext ] Haunting every new technologial system as a maniac specter, the processes of modernization facilitate, rather than hinder, his anarchic ruptures and fateful gameplay. What Mabuse expresses in every new digital version or streaming format is nothing less than the authorship of networked media itself. Mabuse, seen as the "Grand Enunciator," figured as the author of all these cinematic objects, is precisely the myriad components of HTML protocol, GUI software, and networked hardware that facilitate the viewing environment. Mabuse is not a man, but a maleficent current haunting contemporary networks: it is his ghost that replaces Fritz Lang and following directors as the 'author' of the Mabuse films, which include everything from Dr. Mabuse in 1922 to Eagle Eye in 2008. However, the history of the 1922 film alone provides a wild tale of versioning: from Fritz Lang's obsessive cut, to the variously altered international releases (including the ideological Soviet cut Gilded Putrefaction or Gold-Plated Rat edited by Esther Shub and her young apprentice Sergei Eisenstein), to massive reconstruction efforts and subsequent VHS cassettes, television broadcasts, and digital releases. How do we account for this continual remediation of film? If these are diverse veiwing environments are, in fact, "Dr. Mabuse Der Spieler," what do we make of more creative versioning activities? What do we see when experiencing historical film digitized online? It's obviously not the film! What happens if we consider the messy constellations of digitized film trafficking online within the critical narrative of the film itself? [Oscillate Mabuse Soundtracks - Projector - Weltman ] Issue Project Room and SAG Indie Present: Actor as Auteur The photographer as auteur: respecting authorship Anno as auteur: researching Amazon.com: Federico Fellini as Auteur: Seven Aspects of How the West Was Won: Film format as auteur Cartoonist as auteur: Europe's visionary Part 1 -- Cameron as Auteur Unseen Cinema: Amateur as Auteur is Haward Hawks as Auteur in Cinema History: The 1960s--Rise of the Director as "Auteur" The New York Times - Movies - Phenonemon: The Terrorist as Auteur The Actor as Auteur in certain cases The actor as Auteur posted by Guy Lodge Women as Auteur-e-s: Notes from Actor as Auteur Brunch to Benefit Auteur Theory Wikipedia, The Video Clerk as Auteur at God of the Machine The triumph of the director as Auteur - Google Books result Casablanca: The Actress as Auteur NEXT Welcome to Tykwer-World: Tom Tykwer as Auteur Sreenpedia Discussion: Howard Hawks as Auteur Cached Similar Douglas Sirk as Auteur (discussion) From Virtual Turntable: Game Dev as Auteur Audience as Auteur presentation for Abramoff as Auteur: He was No Reject the Herd: David Cronenberg as Auteur Seven aspects of Fererico Fellini as Auteur offers Economic Opportunities: Robert Altman as Auteur E-Mail. Print. Reprints: The Terrorist as Auteur Just as Film as Literature: Tim Burton as auteur Might also save us from the Designer-as-Auteur A listmania list by Michael B Floore (REAL NAME) Burton as Auteur A Film and Media Studies Blog: Cinematographer as Auteur Carl Barks as Auteur as a member of the vociferous cult of My Name is Bruce: Campbell as auteur at SF GATE Topic: Roland Emmerich as Auteur by Mr. Atoz in film Hitchcock's Place in Film Theory: a significant Auteur -- Crimeculture [ Slide - Opening 1 ] Watching the clip "Dr. Mabuse, Ein Bild der Zeit [Part 1/13] (Fritz Lang,1922)," uploaded by a 21-year-old Romanian YouTube user operating under the alias xxPenumbraxx, I can identify with that vatic first scene: "HE and his day." (20 sec) After the clip loads its introductory information--we can skip quickly through the slow progression of opening titles, and in general I prefer to watch the film at 150% speed--the action opens on the hurried, though exacting, ornamental arrangement of a series of avatars, cascading like playing cards or user images in a pair of hands. Whose hands? The actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge, the director Fritz Lang (who, like Hitchcock, claims to have inserted an image of himself into every film, always as a pair of hands), or an unknown professional--there is no way of knowing. After selecting eight possible identities--all that the screen can comfortably hold in its frame at one time--the image cross-fades to a blank-faced man sitting at his desk: the petit bourgeois antihero, Dr. Mabuse. The irising of the frame and the actor's peculiar gaze both remind us that he sits before an intricate technological apparatus throughout the scene; every action is staged for unlimited reproduction. (1 min) [ Slide - xxPenumbraxx ] Black Box xxPenumbraxx's Channel Edit subscription Add as Friend | Block User | Send Message Profile Name: Furiel 8,157 Channel Views: 328,060 Total Upload Views: Age: 21 Last Sign In: 1 month ago 186 Subscribers: Welcome to my Channel, a place for E.B.M. , [or industrial] and goth rock. You might also find videos about games like VTMB or Morroblivion. Thanks to those who have subscribed XD. I am officially dedicating my Channel to Forgotten Films, currently im uploading german expressionist movies[find them in my playlists], you guys can msg me for requests. 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She caressed she fingered beneath the twice-full bag, he She heaved at him. she kiss She moved she took it, she touched She was she'll she, gasping sheets shift shining to the shirtless shit shit Shit shorter shoved shoved silk, delved simper and growl sister's drooling crack sit on it. slapped slapped her slapped his back slick slick it slid under his chest slight infatuations for slip slipped and broke slipped out slipped to his knees slipped two fingers slipped under the slippery slipping the loose skin slips, brassieres slowly out smacked his butt small breasts with his smell smothered it, smudged knees snarled through soft soft some pussy in son spiced up spill my next shot glass full spilled black lips mottled with cerise Spilled his palm spread on an altar spread on his belly Spread the footboard squeal squeezed squirmed on stealing glimpses sticking sticking my dick in it sticky stiff, the shaft strange lady strangers stretched strokes struck Gunner's chin stupid such Suck dick suck it Suck it Suck it Suck it Suck it, suck you suck your sister's box suck. sucked sucked. I Suckin'. Fuckin'. suckin' some sucking surged in him sway of sweaty crevice sweet look hungry pussy swell swelled swollen swung at his groin Syncopate [ Slide - Opening 2 ] Casually shuffling through this set of pre-determined identity masks, we already know that each anonymizing agent will be activated by contingencies at different sites in response to various schemes and protocols. Following a cut back to the medium-shot of the desk, Mabuse randomly selects an avatar from this seemingly endless series of choices, dwelling for a moment on its image. Having made his selection, he automatically sends it off to an agent of his operating system: first betraying his composure as a neurochemical stimulant glitch slows down his social networking preparations. He is pained by any delay in transmission. He threatens and curses the application for freezing up, and irritatedly resends the identity masking information before turning his attention to a handheld time keeping device. (50 sec) ... [ Slide New Moon Rising ] Alejandro Crawford made an algorithm write the following poem, but I'm not sure whose poem it is. We published it together in a packet under the imprint "Ex Libris" for presentation at post_moot in Ohio. The input text was selected out of a series of conversations we've had about protocol and nonexistence. The python script was a modified form of another script, gathered in his institutional training. I'm reading it now with a few minor edits. Contrary to the gestures of conceptual poetry, I'm not sure I want to claim it as mine. Where and how do we locate fluid text and trafficking media? How porous are the dimensions of network authorship? exploit.txt in the issue of text of powerful concerns in the governmental layer text of anxiety may in the discussions over text of a network in the study of text of data packets in the network are text of linear sequences in the distributed form text of political opposition in the research of text of DNA in the idea of text of epidemic intensity in the grammar of text of the processor in the quantized framesper text of cinema will in the proper functioning text of a city in the network as text of numerous parts in the passive edges text of heterogeneous phenomena in the political order text of wealth in the very conditions text of Islamic fundamentalism in the most complex text of accidents and in the pervasive media text of computer viruses in the day before text of networked control in the network is text of networks entail in the more one text of topological organization in the level of text of bits and in the other hand text of computer society in the importance of text of a type in the Christian Identity text of traditional military in the One is text of the coupling in the icon of text of Deleuze and in the undoing of text of the new in the entire human text of the medieval in the White House text of this power in the broadest sense text of hackers bringing in the eighteenth century text of the word in the role that text of FedEx or in the SARS virus text of the SARS in the threat of text of medical surveillance in the other hand text of living organisms [ Slide Opening 3 ] The first parallel cut is unexpected and startling: exciting enough to keep my interest. As quick as a link to another YouTube clip, the montage opens a window on a fast action sequence beginning with the progressive locomotive framing that characterizes all cinematography--long shot, medium shot, close-up--first employed by the Lumières'. Throughout the sensational sequence Mabuse's eyes remain fixed to the small mobile device ticking away, as though it's streaming the moving image right from the palm of his hand. The servers in his network follow the absolute control of an elaborate protocol worked out to the smallest detail: activating automobiles, rail systems, and telephone lines in concert with their perfectly synchronized mobile devices, each of which mirrors the streaming content of the filmic iris. (1 min) Instantaneously, an interconnect operator transmits the encoded outcome of the criminal escapade, calling up the space-defying immediacy of modern technology through a seamless network direct to Mabuse's desk. He receives the news with the boyish anticipation of a user about to refresh his inbox. The thrill of the perfectly timed montage, the exacting speed of error-free protocol, and his flawless exploit of the system delights him so much that he shouts to himself while seated at the desk before the recording mechanism. With the exception of the high fidelity, attention grabbing musical soundtrack we've added to the film in 2001, the film is silent, so we receive a text message instead: Bravo Georg'! Satisfied with the momentary novelty of this sensational sequence, he closes the line and returns to the routine demanded of a webmaster engaged in the constant maintenance of his criminal network: preparing yet another excursion into a world of consumer technologies and casual users oblivious to their imminent exploitation. (1 min) [ Slide - You Take ] Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (Fritz Lang, 1922).torrent (or: download a .zip file of the torrent | download the torrent renamed as .txt file) in the .torrent file has been changed and a private flag added to it. Please re-download it. Language: Silent included: English Intertitles Size: 1.37GB (1,471,698,944 bytes) Added: 2005-07-21 01:36:28 Snatched 159 times -- 159 known users latest downloaders... 10. t0529p 9. soitgoes8 8. Tim 7. AdiTudose 6. Tekk 5. alex242 4. Kavou 3. tomikamp 2. Fac1 1. Menta Peers 5 seeder(s), 0 leecher(s) = 5 peer(s) total by amnesiac (Administrator) Thanks by TopJim (TopUploader) Thanks, now my Mabuse collection is almost complete! by TopJim (TopUploader) I just took a quick look at it & this is a really nice rip. Thanks again! by derbghallef (User I can't download the torrent file I don't know why. by Pohn (VIP) What version is this? by Tagave (User) So this is the short version? That's too bad. I could provide the long version along with the extras from the new MoC DVD, in case anyone's interested. by victorhermann (Power User) Do it! Description No it is impossible we don't have in KG full DVD with Dr Mabuse masterpiece ? Snatched: 1 time -- 1 known user Upped by Jurgeen [ Bernstein, Piano] Those days are over I'm not fighting for anyone except myself I've heard this story a million times Mister I met a guy once when I was a kid, it would always begin Tell me Who was it you left me for was it Lazlo or were there others in between or aren't you the kind to tell / my neck out for no one / so can I, play it Sam I stick my neck out for / can stand it so can I, play it S * If she can stand it so can I, play it Sam. I stick my neck out for no one / can I, play it Sam. I stick my neck out for no one Those days are of * / play it Sam. I stick my neck for no one / am. I stick my neck out for n / / can stand it so can I, play it Sam. I stick my neck out for // so can I, play it Sam. 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The wild finish, a guy standing on a tr / The wild fini // al The wild finish / The wild finish * The wild fin / Who was it you left me for was it Lazlo or were there other // on a train platform with a comical look on his face, because his insides had been kicked out. [ Final Slide -- Noise -- Money] The film closes on Mabuse inadvertently locking himself into one of his own hiding places--a secret counterfeiting operation using blind slaves to ceaselessly count and stack Mabuse's fraudulent cash flow. Trapped, and confronted with the ghosts of the damaged souls crushed under his power, Mabuse manically scatters the now-worthless paper into the air. The counterfeiting operation was always his most incongruous and quixotic venture: the manufacture of paper money matches the unrealistic necessity of the blind ones, who perhaps stand more for print media than any narrative necessity: like humans and automobiles, the paper was nothing but another material tool used to irritate abstract systems. In the end, his own body locked in a cell of his own device, Mabuse is translated into pure abstraction: inscribed like malicious software into the system. What is this final insanity but a mirror of Neo's absorption in the final scene of The Matrix? The printing press is animated as a beast of virtual simulation. Like the ghost that surround him, the final insanity of Mabuse-the-man (Mabuse the author, the director, the film) plugs the motion picture into an ethereal realm, confused in the undying reduplication of 'Mabuse.' The document Mabuse has produced forms a self-perpetuating machine that (re)creates its author in its reader. Mabuse doubles himself, and the text that makes this duplication possible leads a life of its own; the doctor's testament acts both as a means of spreading the virus and as a way of obscuring its source.
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