Irresponsible Mediums
The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp
- Publisher
- Book*hug Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2017
- Category
- General, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771663342
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $18.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771663359
- Publish Date
- Oct 2017
- List Price
- $14.99
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In 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance, in Toronto, Canada, where whenever a player moved a piece, it generated a musical note until the game was transformed into a symphony.
Inspired by this performance, Irresponsible Mediums--poet and academic Aaron Tucker's second full-length collection of poems—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.
With an introduction by Jennifer Shahade, two time U.S. Women's Chess Champion.