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“Hollywood Burn is an anti-copyright epic constructed entirely from hundreds of samples pirated from the Hollywood archive. It pits a righteous league of video pirates against the evil tyrant Moses and his Copyright Commandments. Determined to alter the present by changing the past, the pirates travel back to 1955 to construct the ultimate weapon: an Elvis Presley video-clone.

Part sci-fi + rom com + biblical epic + action movie, this remix manifesto adopts the tactical responses of the parasite, feeding off the body of Hollywood and inhabiting its cinematic codes. The unwitting all-star cast includes Elvis Presley, Charlton Heston, Jack Sparrow, Monkey Magic, Bette Davis, Batman, Jaws, Jesus, the Hulk, the Hoff and the Ghostbusters.”

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Meticulously indexed and formatted, Angela Genusa’s Spam Bibliography is a bibliographic listing of the author’s spam folder of her email account. An archive of found language, Genusa is concerned with the noise of everyday language - the generic, automated, marketing speak of spam. Spam, as a food, is the definition of generic; a mass-produced, highly processed substance with little to no nutritional value. Spam, as communication, is mass-produced, generic and disruptive. Genusa’s work--a simple framing of nuisance communication--disavows the lyrical and the narrative; use-value and meaning. Instead Genusa frames the noise that is present in systems of communication.