Tan Lin - Knowledge (XXG)

337:, Lin presented a collection of language and graphics compiled from a variety of online sources, ranging from advertisements to Facebook to scholarly articles. For Lin, the work touched on "who is more generally responsible for certain texts," rather than "who physically authors a text." He explored the idea of an ambient novel by highlighting how a book works and how a reader reacts to a printed object when the content itself is arguably meaningless. The content skips from subject to subject in a seemingly random way through plagiarisms, outsourced material, and meta-content. 249:

Lin's style as an artist comes from the principle of "ambient" literature. A commentary by Katherine Elaine Sanders described the style by saying, "Lin leads his audiences in exploring the temporary ephemera that fills our daily interactions: emails, Twitter feeds, Facebook messages, blogs, movies,

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Lin wrote prose poems that are disrupted by themselves, alluding to the idea of art being "relaxingly meaningless." He distorted the line between various aesthetic disciplines and took avant-garde notions to a new level by diffusing them into ambient formats such as yoga and meditation. The seven

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is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor. He defines his work as "ambient" literature, which draws on and samples source material from the Internet and popular culture to address issues involving

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was generally positive. The poet Kenneth Goldsmith wrote, "Lin proposes a radical idea for reading: not reading. Words, so prevalent today, are merely elements that constitute fleeting engagements."

221:; his dissertation, completed in 1995, was titled "Garbage, Truth, and the Recycling of Modern Life." In addition to writing essays, poems, and books, Lin currently teaches creative writing at 312:, in which he mourned the death of his aunt, who owned a motel. Lin's most recent published work, "The Fern Rose Bibliography" (2022), is an excerpt from his forthcoming novel, 350:

sections of the book each address a different art form, including photography, painting, the novel, architecture, music, theory, and film, using both text and photographs.

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in 1996, a "meditation backwards," where he invented new poetry structures through the manipulation of the mechanics of language. In 2003, Lin published his second work,

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An Annotated Index to the Photographic Work of Diana Kingsley with Anecdotes and Emendations by M. Moore and E. Dickinson

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Information Archives, the De-Materialization of Language, and Kenneth Goldsmith's Fidget and No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96

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Scappettone, Jennifer. "Versus Seamlessness: Architectonics of Pseudocomplicity in Tan Lin’s Ambient Poetics."

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The work was the winner of a Book Award for poetry in 2012 from the Association for Asian American Studies.

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Aarhus, Mathies G. "Relaxing the Avant-Garde: Tan Lin and the Language-Oriented Tradition."

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J. Paul Getty Visiting Scholar Fellowship, The Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2004

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Anachronistic Modernism: Numbers Stations, Static, and the Cold War of Poetry

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of reading." A first expanded edition of the project was published online by

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Golding, Alan. "Reading, the Academy, and the 'Soft' Avant-Garde: Tan Lin's

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Asian American Arts Alliance Urban Artist/Initiative/NYC Grant, 2006–2007

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From January 10, 2006 to October 16, 2006, Lin maintained a blog, titled

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https://post45.org/2023/04/on-ambience-tan-lin-and-american-minimalism/

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Academy of American Poets Honorable Mention, Columbia University, 1987

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Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant, 2006–2007

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magazines, and advertisements, indexes, photographs, and recipes."

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Association for American Studies Award for Poetry/Literature, 2010

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Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry, 1984 and 1986

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Warhol's Aura and the Language of Writing: A World of Likenesses

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7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004: The Joy of Cooking,

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