RHIZOME_RAW: Turbulence Spotlight: "Alphanumeric Labs" by August Highland

[August Highland]

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August 14, 2003
Turbulence Spotlight: "Alphanumeric Labs" by August Highland
http://turbulence.org/spotlight/highland/index.html

August Highland has set about the task of changing everything
conventional about the publishing industry. To give a literary work the
same intrinsic material value as a painting, Highland conceived of the
"Massive Production" publishing model. Instead of producing one book and
selling thousands of copies of that book to readers, each one of whom
own a re-printed, disposable object, Highland produces thousands of
one-of-a-kind books and sells only the original copy of that book to one
person who then owns a work of art with the same intrinsic value of a
painting or sculpture.

Highland applies the same production ethic to "Alphanumeric Labs." Like
all the projects by the "Superheroes of Humanities" the visual work by
"Alphanumeric Labs" are literary works that have migrated across the
boundary line where literature morphs from text intended to be read
(library material) to text intended to be viewed (museum material).
Currently there are four series in the Howard Fineman Collection.
Highland has 20 series planned for "Alphanumeric Labs," each to contain
1,000 works. Individual works are professionally converted from a
digital art piece to a "painting" of monumental size. They are sold as
one-of-a-kind artworks for between $2,500 to $5,000.

BIOGRAPHY

August Highland is the Director of "Culture Animal," a literary
production company. "Culture Animal" presents tens of thousands of
literary works by August Highland under approximately 80 personae. This
conceptual literary performance is called "Metapoetics Theatre."
"Culture Animal" has developed over 30 projects, each with an individual
website. The work is presented by one or more personae who produce
literary work in a particular genre or subgenre originated by Highland
himself. All the personae of "Culture Animal" are members of one of
three simulated literary movements. They are the "Worldwide Literati
Mobilization Network, the "International Belles Lettres Federation" and
the "Superheroes of Humanities." The literary genres that August
Highland has originated are "Hyper-Literary Fiction," "Microlinear
Storytelling," "Next-Gen Nanopoetics," and "Genre-Splicing."

Highland is also Editor and Publisher of an online international
literary quarterly. The "Muse Apprentice Guild" first appeared online in
August, 2002. The premiere issue contained 60 writers and 100 literary
works. The Spring, 2003 issue of the M.A.G. presented over 4,000
literary works by 600 writers. The M.A.G. has 35 contributing editors or
"liaisons" around the world and is the Internet's largest and most
widely read international literary quarterly.

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