HEATH

HEATH (plagiarism/outsource) by Tan Lin is book "set" in plain text, composed of a mash up of data sources from RSS feeds, blog posts, Google searches, retrieved photographs, handwritten notes, and items of that nature.

With a BA from Carleton College and an MA and PhD from Columbia University, his work is tied to cultural and media studies with an emphasis on issues involving copyright, plagiarism, and technology.

HEATH reviewer Laurie Macfee asks, "Is an RSS feed a manifestation of collective intellectual achievement, a form of art, or is it more related to the scientific notion of culture and an artificial medium that promotes or cultivates replication?

Readers and critics of HEATH point out the fact that upon initial reading, the brain automatically corrects the word "untilted" to "untitled", prompting different analytical suggestions for why Lin decided to title the section as such.

"[5] Snelson also relates HEATH to Ambience is a Novel with a Logo, written by Lin in 2007, which features a subtitle system consisting of citations in the format of Google search entries which correspond to passages from the body of the text.

[6] Once again Lin plagiarized himself from an essay he wrote in 2008 called Disco as Operating System, which linked the generic cultural dance phenomenon to the digital age of programmed language and shed light on the production of the book.

[1] Writers and artists take text, pictures, and other forms of media that have already been written or created and transform them into a completely different work in order to convey or display a different message or meaning.