VMP Magazine
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Demon Days And The Promise Of Our Digital Future
"Have you noticed?" WIRED magazine asks, in one of those encomia of progress that becomes sunnily unreal once it falls into the past. "Everywhere you look, pop culture has been digitized, resequenced, and reassembled." The year is 2005, and the magazine, whose news beat is the future, is running a special issue on the "age of the remix." The vision offered is utopian, as such visions usually are at first, celebrating the many cultural triumphs that have arrived as disparate forces hurtling toward each other in the information age. The lead example is Gorillaz, a multimedia music and art project spearheaded by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and Tank Girl illustrator Jamie Hewlett. Their own impression of the present climate, though, is a little more conflicted.
