British artist Kim Rugg painstakingly rearranges text and images from newspapers, stamps and cereal boxes to give new meaning to the original content. Sort of a re-imagining of Burrough’s cut-up method, bringing Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra to mind; Rugg describes one of her pieces featured in the video as “an image made out of the object that’s an object made out of the image.”

From video producer, Cool Hunting:

“Some people like taking their time,” says artist Kim Rugg, whose artistic achievements are measured in millimeters, used X-ACTO blades and picas. We spent the afternoon with Rugg in her London home and studio talking about her work re-imagining newspapers, comics, stamps and cereal boxes using their existing form while rearranging their content. Kim finds inspiration from the mundane and common objects around us. Her wicked knife skills and tenacious attention to detail have created a body of work that is as impressive as it is curious.

(discovered via BoingBoing)

When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.

Here’s a cool visual cut-up to go along with Burroughs’ “Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups.” In the recording, Burroughs explains the theory behind his method of rearranging text to make new meaning (or perhaps expose hidden meanings) out of the text. Burroughs finishes with an early example of audio cut-ups, produced by British artist Brion Gysin.

It’s cool to see artists from different eras interacting with each other and exploring the same concepts using vastly different technologies.