Nowist Communique #2
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The two images in this video loop are the two sides of a postcard spam that arrived at Maria Damon's home in Minneapolis (Summer 2005). I was visiting and rescued them from the chopping block, scanning them in and using the Image Sequence Flicker Loop (used in Black Rainbows) to construct a binary timeline.

Nowism rejects the political agenda of Neoism by asserting that it is not calling ourselves Not Me and plagiarizing Stewart Home that will liberate us from the supposed bad ideology of original arts practices. Rather, Nowists use their social security numbers (or non-US equivalents) as their only name, giving freely of the keys to the abundant vaults of originality.

There were 8 Nowist Communiques released Summer 2005 over the Wryting listserv from Dreamtime Village (temporarily archived here), and 3 communiques released as xerox pamphlets in the following months from Oxford Ohio. The first eight were directed at the infamous Neoist Janet Janet, a visitor to Dreamtime during my stay there. It was curious to swim past his flailing "CPR" make-out session with the bloated corpse of "the last avant-garde," and few Nowists were surprised to note Nowist Communique #6.5, released by none other than Double Janet herself: 000-00-0000.

Reference:
Neoist Interruptus