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.
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*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 - 5:14amTo: 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.
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To: Joe Milutis
From: James Cooper
Sub: Re: Project
depends on how demanding.
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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.
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