Timeline of Major Works and Education

Oct. 2010 - Haunted Frankfurt - Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Performer/Writer/Fabricator
Haunted Frankfurt was a sculptural and performative installation utilizing 27 performers and almost 50 artists overall, inside a large three story house in Frankfurt's Alte Sachsenhausen.

Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2010 - The Mudlark Public Theatre - New Orleans, LA
Producer/Performer/Technical Manager
A subsidiary of The Black Forrest Fancies Non-Profit theater company, The Mudlark is a black box theatre dedicated to public arts education and community use. The Mudlark and Black Forrest fancies have been awarded grants by several prestigious organizations, including: The Annenberg Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Louisiana Division of the arts.


Oct. 2009 - The Torrent - New Orleans, LA
'The Torrent' was collaborative, new media project utilizing internet file sharing, online video hosting, internet self publish, and public performance to circulate a collection of books generated by 7 different artists piracy of each others book.

Sept. 2008 - Diagram: An Image/Text - New Orleans, LA
A collection of textual experiments as images. They were displayed at the Barristers, and Good-Children galleries in New Orleans in 2008.

May. 2006 - Dec. 2006 - New Jersey as An Impossible Object
New York, NY/Paterson, NJ
A multi-media deriavation of American Poet William C. Williams opus 'Patterson'. The project was heavily inspired by the situationist concept derrive. It largely consisted of exprimenting with various readings of the text in various places in the city coextensive, with the a-subjective, creative materialism of the book. An extensive electronic record of the project can be found at: http://impossibleobject.blogspot.com/

Education:
James Cooper studied Experimental Film and Video Art under Tammy Kinsey and Elspeth Kydd at the university of Toledo in Toledo Oh, specializing in theory, critique, and production. He has studied traditional and contemporary performance in various technical institutions around the U.S. since his childhood. He has been writing producing and performing independent theatre and film projects since high school.
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Diagram: An Image/Text By James Cooper




"The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words."
-- Stéphane Mallarmé



The Image/Text critiques various commonly accepted notions of subjectivity and communication through simultaneous manipulations of the visual, syntactical and so-called semantic aspects of texts.


They are designed to divert the reader from whatever subjective content or objective directives which might be deduced from or attributed to them.



Above all, they occupy themselves with the joyous and playful processes immanent to composition in general; cosmic, terrestrial, personal or otherwise.




The Image/Text as Book Art highlights the impersonal and machinic ways in which linguistic milieus such as books or conversations are compiled and interfaced with, as opposed to the long obsolete dialectic of significance, which still dominates modern linguistic scholarship.

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"This is what a text looks like"

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The Torrent - An Experiment in Media Contamination

What happens when an International consortium of 'Art Pirates' entangle themselves in an incestuous web of thievery, fraud, forgery, and copyright infringement?


In all "The Torrent" infected eight artists working life, and manifested 7 individual book projects. Each project, then took on its own life in its own respective city and communtiy. New York, Paris, Kiev, Philladelphia, Seatle, Providence, and in my case, New Orleans. Their were myriad presentations, readings, demonstrations, and sales stunts, all...very...highly... infectious.

There Are No Vampires in The Torrent


There are, however, 1 zombie, 1 mutant, 1 telepath, 1 pegleg, 1 avatar of the divine, 1 jungle adventurer, 1 lipogram writer, and the ghost of John Keats.

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9/19/09 - 5:14am
To: James Cooper
From: Joe Milutis
Sub: Project
Are you interested in participating in a "literary" or "unliterary" project that you'd have to finish in a couple weeks?
Joe

9/19/09 - 10:52am
To: Joe Milutis
From: James Cooper
Sub: Re: Project
depends on how demanding.
?

9/19/09 - 3:12pm
To: James Cooper
From: Joe Milutis
Sub: Re: Re: Project
This is the description I’ve been writing to a select few:
I'm going to release this small book in the beginning of October called the Torrent, based off a damaged bitTorrent file. I'm going to have a campaign thru the month of Sept, and I was hoping to flood the market with unauthorized copies that will appear before the release (uploaded to a self-publishing site like lulu and then linked to the publicity blog with dire warnings and injunctions to accept no substitutions). Do you want to do one of these? You can basically compose the book like you were in China getting 5 cents a page, or spend some focused time generating your own narrative, and screwing more with the images (since this is really great material to work with; you can't do just one!). But the goal would be speed, since the book needs to be up and ready to contaminate the official release in the month of Sept.
Again, keep it confidental both if and if you do not want to do it!
Joe
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Internet Piracy, File Corruption, Human Corruption.

Jean Roland's "Night of the Hunted" is a very poorly written, soft-core pornography dressed up like a suspense-thriller/crime-mystery. What Joe Milutis was doing with a pirated copy in the first place, well, I guess that's well within his right to keep private. Let's just assume that on that fateful night, when he typed "night of the hunted torrent" into his search browser, that he fully intended to acquire the the glitchy, twitchy video file, which he knew precisely would go on to begat an original book adaptation, itself begetting six international pirated versions in 3 different languages, months of debate, an insidious web of leal threats and threats of physical violence, public demonstrations, youtube wars, and every sort of slander, defamation and insult a group of artists could fling at at each other.

A message from the author of The Torrent


The New Orleans Book Fair


Unfortunately the video from this performance is temporarily unavailable. Suffice it to say that setting up a booth with seven copies of very similar books by seven different authors in 3 different languages and very vigilantly trying to rally their support for taking your copyright infringement case to the supreme court while pretending that you are completely oblivious to the American judicial process makes for some very interesting interactions with unseuspecting book fair goers.

"The Torrent Milutis" vs. "The Torrent" By Joe Milutis


In December of 2009 Joe Milutis brought his book and his video mixing equipment to The Mudlark Public Theatre in New Orleans to have a public showdown with my own torrent project which I presented in my own multi-media format. We both lost.

(Also unfortunately, there is extensive check video and photo documnetation of this event which is on the same hard drive as teh Book fair stuff...check back later!

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This is short a video that Milutis and made in 2006, which he tried to use as defamation against my legitimacy as the author of "The Torrent Milutis." The woman with whom I am discussing is legendary American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton.

Schizo for World Peace

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