Source Database: 
ELMCIP
Source Entry URL: 
https://elmcip.net/node/5944
Source Entry OAI-PMH Identifier: 
oai:elmcip.net:5944
Author(s) of the Source Entry: 
Scott Rettberg
Source Entry Language(s): 
English
Description(s): 

"OneSmallStep: a MySpace LuvStory" is an unfolding automated jam—a conscious sampling and randomized regurgitation of MySpace.com media archeology wherein desire, fantasy and fetish form a composted feast for the withered and lonely senses in an eternally habitual loop of voyeuristic consumption, spectacular regurgitation, virtual intimacy and identity production/consumption. Artist StatementWe are not ourselves. We cut and paste as we are cut and pasted. We are the remix of images and sounds that never existed outside of this mediated dream. And we are happy to exist this way. "OneSmallStep: a MySpace LuvStory" is an unfolding automated jam - a conscious sampling and randomized regurgitation of MySpace.com media archeology wherein desire, fantasy and fetish form a composted feast for the withered and lonely senses in an eternally habitual loop of voyeuristic consumption, spectacular regurgitation, virtual intimacy and identity production/consumption. With each launch, "OneSmallStep" runs continuously while randomly remixing content from a database that is periodically updated.(Source: 2008 ELO Media Art show)