"Mark Sample teaches and researches new media and digital culture at Davidson College."
"Playing on the similarity between the original title of Nick Montfort's Taroko Gorge and the name of Star Trek star George Takei, Mark Sample's Takei, George pairs familiar Star Trek imagery with Takei's own life experiences and activism. Takei is known for an impressive Internet media presence and well-respected as an activist both for Japanese-American and gay rights. The work has a similar fan-culture aspect to Flourish Klink's Fred and George, another Taroko Gorge remix, and the inclusion of Star Trek in the mix likewise draws attention to the show's relevance in political and utopian discourse. The merging of these elements in the generated texts makes it clear that the easiest battles Takei has fought were the ones belonging to the world of science fiction." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3
C3 - Web PY - 2011 LA - English M3 - Generative, Poetry, Remix UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/804/0/0/ DB - The NEXT Y2 - 2025-04-07 ER -