The Grey Album

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Feb 262004

Wow — at home Monday night, I downloaded the Grey Album, a remix of the Beatles “White Album” with Rapper Jay-Z's “Black Album” done by DJ Dangermouse, without even realizing I was taking part in a global protest against censorship and unreasonable restrictions on sampling. A friend sent me one of those “click here this is cool” emails.

I listened to it once and then, you know, destroyed it.

I'm wondering though, if I owned a copy of the White Album and the Black Album, would the Grey Album still be illegal?

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Creative Work & New Media

After Parthenope: a generative fiction produced for the 2011 Officina del Litterature Electronica exhibition in Naples.

Frequency poems: poems produced with the Frequency poetry generator, an aspect of a larger constrained writing project. 2009.

Tokyo Garage. A remix of Nick Montfort's Taroko Garage poetry generator, for the imaginary city. 2009.

The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One. N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, and Stephanie Strickland, eds. An edited CD-ROM and online anthology of selected works of electronic literature. College Park, MD: The Electronic Literature Organization, 2006.

Implementation, a novel on stickers. With Nick Montfort. 2005.

“The Meddlesome Passenger.” Beehive 05:01 (2002). (Internet Explorer required).

Kind of Blue, a serial novel for email. Frame Journal of Technology and Culture (August 2003).

The Unknown, a hypertext novel. 1998-2002. With William Gillespie, Frank Marquardt, and Dirk Stratton.

Scholarly Work

(Update coming soon)

“Corporate Ideology in World of Warcraft.” Book chapter in World(s) of Warcraft, a Critical Anthology of World of Warcraft Studies. Hilde Corneliussen and Jill Walker, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.

“Dada Redux: Elements of Dadaist Practice in Contemporary Electronic Literature.” Digital Arts and Culture Conference, Perth Australia, September 2007.

Dissertation: Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel. University of Cincinnati, Department of English and Comparative Literature, 2003.

“All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective Narratives, and Architectures of Participation.” Published in the DAC 2005 Conference Proceedings, revised version forthcoming as “All Together Now: Collective Narratives and Collective Knowledge Communities in Context” in New Narratives: Theory and Practice, Thomas Browan and Ruth Page, eds.

“Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing,” “Written on the Body: An Interview with Shelley Jackson,” and “Avant-Gaming: An Interview with Jane McGonigal.” (Complied PDF) The Iowa Review Web (July 2006).

“Experiments in Irrational Exuberance: The Present and Future of Electronic Literature or How I Became E-Literate.” Kairos 7.2 (Fall 2002).

“American Simulacra: Don DeLillo's Fiction in Light of Postmodernism.” Undercurrent #7 (Spring 1999).