Article Title
Abstract
Circuit-bending, an art practice developed in the 1960's, involves the creative short circuiting of battery-powered toys and instruments. Like many of its avant-garde precursors, circuit-bending is a composition practice that values access, chance, and indeterminacy. For this special issue of Harlot, we document our own circuit-bending process and make connections between the work of Qubais Reed Ghazala, the pioneer of circuit-bending, and rhetoric and writing. Specifically, we discuss the importance of access and creativity, invention and discovery, and the ways that composition is a collaborative performance between humans and nonhumans.
DOI
10.15760/harlot.2015.14.3
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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39479
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Recommended Citation
Hammer, Steven and Knight, Aimée
(2015)
"Crafting Malfunction: Rhetoric and Circuit-Bending,"
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion:
No.
14, 3.
https://doi.org/10.15760/harlot.2015.14.3