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TEXT: "Romy Achituv and Camille Uterback"
Feature on Romy Achituv and Camille Uterback
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Letters are falling down like rain. Try to catch the letters and their meanings. The falling letters are not random, but lines of a poem about bodies and language. Collect enough letters and you can catch a word or even an entire line of the Poem.
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The Last Book -- Call for a collaborative project by Luis Camnitzer
The Last Book is a project to compile written as well as visual statements in which the authors may leave a legacy for future generations. The premise of the project is that book-based culture is coming to an end.
On one hand, new technologies have introduced cultural mutations by transferring information to television and the Internet. On the other, there has been an increasing deterioration in the educational systems (as much in the First World as on the periphery) and a proliferation of religious and anti-intellectual fundamentalisms. The Last Book will serve as a time-capsule and leave a document and testament of our time, as well as a stimulus for a possible reactivation of culture in case of disappearance by negligence, catastrophe or conflagration.---
Contributions to this project will be limited to one page and may be e-mailed to lastbook.madrid@gmail.com or mailed to Luis Camnitzer, 124 Susquehanna Ave., Great Neck NY 11021, USA. In case of submission of originals, these will not be returned. The book will be exhibited as an installation at the entrance of the Museum of the National Library of Spain in Madrid at some point of 2008. Pages will be added during the duration of the project, with the intention of an eventual publication of an abridged version selected by Luis Camnitzer, curator of the project. The tentative deadline is March 31, 2008.
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TEXT: The Effects of Computers on Traditional Writing
The Effects of Computers on Traditional Writing
by SHARMILA PIXY FERR
Computers, and the electronic writing they have enabled, significantly alter traditional conceptions of writing. The effects of electronic writing on traditional text call for a re-examination of the prevailing print metaphor for online writing. A brief historical overview can help us better understand the effects of computers on traditional writing. The three great communication revolutions -- symbolic language, writing, and print -- have led to the current revolution of computers and electronic technologies.
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Text Rain by Camille Utterback (1999)
Camille Utterback is a pioneering artist and programmer in the field of interactive installation. TextRain is a work from 1999 - for more works see: http://www.camilleutterback.com
Terms & Conditions by Burak Arikan
Terms & Conditions are often written for legal regulations but they are never read by consumers, as a result consumers are often exploited by agreeing on these unreadable terms.
In this piece, terms & conditions of five social web services are re-written using a custom typeface. The resulting images are generated by three processes: me typing the words, the program deciding on the size of each letter each time I hit the key, and the instructions for the fonts. With this piece we both recycle unread terms & conditions text and point to the moment where people give away their rights to the capital.---
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bit.fall by Julius Popp
An installation which produces words and text by a water-display -- processes.
CONGRATULATIONS: Command Lines Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media
Command Lines Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New Media
by Jeremy Douglass
a doctoral dissertation in partial satisfaction of the Ph.D. in English
UC Santa Barbara (2007)
The Interactive Fiction (IF) genre describes text-based narrative experiences in which a person interacts with a computer simulation by typing text phrases (usually commands in the imperative mood) and reading software-generated text responses (usually statements in the second person present tense). Re-examining historical and contemporary IF illuminates the larger fields of electronic literature and game studies. Intertwined aesthetic and technical developments in IF from 1977 to the present are analyzed in terms of language (person, tense, and mood), narrative theory (Iser’s gaps, the fabula / sjuzet distinction), game studies / ludology (player apprehension of rules, evaluation of strategic advancement), and filmic representation (subjective POV, time-loops). Two general methodological concepts for digital humanities analyses are developed in relation to IF: implied code, which facilitates studying the interactor’s mental model of an interactive work; and frustration aesthetics, which facilitates analysis of the constraints that structure interactive experiences. IF works interpreted in extended “close interactions” include Plotkin’s Shade (1999), Barlow’s Aisle (2000), Pontious’s Rematch (2000), Foster and Ravipinto’s Slouching Towards Bedlam (2003), and others. Experiences of these works are mediated by implications, frustrations, and the limiting figures of their protagonists.
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Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno's Iterature
Literature from Page to Interface
The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno's Iterature
by Søren Pold
for electronicbookreview
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, digital hypertext literature was broadly considered a reckoning with the book. In continuation of a post-modern and post-structuralist tradition, hypertext was seen as an exhaustion of, and a potential break with, the literary forms of the printed book, a view that was reinforced by hypertext theory. Already before the general appearance of digital hypertext literature, there was a widespread theoretically based understanding of the crisis of the book, the late age of print, the end of the Gutenberg galaxy, and so on.---
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'Parallel Rethoric: Coming and Going'
'Rhetoric' is usually understood to be the art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral, visual, or written language. However contemporary studies of rhetoric have a more diverse range of practices and meanings than in the past.
Rhetoricians now argue in fact that the classical understanding of rhetoric is limited because persuasion depends on communication, which in turn depends on meaning. Thus the scope of rhetoric is to include much more than simply public, both legal and political, discourse. This emphasis on meaning and how it is constructed and conveyed particularly through media is part of Zachary Poff's (zachpoof) latest installation 'Parallel Rethoric: Coming and Going'.
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TypeTrace by Takumi Endo - memorizing the way you type
TypeTrace is a software that memorizes the way you type: Language is the most basic media we all exploit in every day life.
We generate thousands of words a day, typing emails and documents. The work records and plays back the act of typing along a timeline. As each key typed is regenerated with sound to form a mass of words, the presence of the typist emerges in the space, and this weaving shifts shape as you leave your traces on the texts of others.---view video-presentation >>>
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ELO & Library of Congress are archiving 300 electronic literatur sites
The United States Library of Congress is archiving 300 electronic literature web sites in collaboration with the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) and archive-it.org.
The sites selected will be crawled and archived to the extent that the Archive-It technology allows. The result will be full-text searchable collections of the spidered HTML files in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The ELO will enter metadata including a short description and keywords for each URL entered into the database. To participate in this project, please see the wiki (and note there is a FAQ linked on that page).---
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The Child by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet
Video created by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet for the french dj Alex Gopher. A world made only with typographics
Privileges by Diane Landry
Diane Landry's installation 'Privileges' consists of the readymade object 'book' semantic alteration. A dictionary is in fact changed into an automated flip book in order to animate the education privileges metaphor.
The number of pages of this universal book determines the animation's quantity of images. Each page in fact displays a frame of a cliché sequence where the protagonist is the artist herself cutting an apple in job gloves. The logical connection is quite immediate: the access to culture allows the privileged to fed up. Landry intends to provoke a surprising relationship between objects and their usual meaning, thus breaking the usual link between our reading of an object and the memory of it. By recycling the meaning and the primary use of everyday objects, she hopes to upset and interrupt people's thoughts infiltrating her works into their minds thanks to the simple surprise effect. In this case she uses a dictionary as a timeline.---
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AGM07: Doc.Art / Aesthetic Journalism
Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen present the 5th edition of AGM: AGM07: Doc.Art on November 16, 2007; 7:00 pm - Weiherburggasse 13/12, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
The symposium analyses the interaction between journalism and art. It presents and discusses artistic projects produced through journalistic and documentary means, and conversely journalistic investigations which use artistic platforms to reach the public. AGM07: Doc.Art focuses particularly on the following topics: Aesthetic Journalism, the use of realism in documentary video art, and the artistic / journalistic exposing of territorial control. AGM was initiated by Alfredo Cramerotti and Iben Bentzen in 2003 in order to pursue new modes of knowledge production in existing fields of knowledge. It is an annual and itinerant event focused on exploring the relation between the annual theme and the hosting institution.
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// Critical Code Studies
CriticalCodeStudies.com
Critical Code Studies is a new resource which will serve as site for discussions and links to further develop the practices of “Critical Code Studies.” Over time, this site will amass an extensive bibliography for those engaging in Critical Code Studies, while at the same time acting as a hub for conversations about code. Please joint the conversation and send your thoughts about code!---
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Ceci n'est pas un texte: Electronic Book Review Special on ElectroPoetics
In the latest selection from the Electronic Book Review, Associate Editor Lori Emerson brings together both critics and creators of electronic poetry, some of whom established themselves at the very start and many more who are recent entrants in the field of electronic literature.
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VERSATILE M[C]O[MMUNICATION]DALITY - A Conversation with Mary-Anne Breeze (mez)
#005 Re: MAGAZINE
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION WITH MARY-ANNE BREEZE
VERSATILE M[C]O[MMUNICATION]DALITY [pdf]
mez, netwurker, data[h!]bleeder, ms post modemism, mezflesque.exe, ova.kill, net.w][ho][urker, Purrsonal Areah Netwurker, Phonet][r][ix ... The pseudomyms of the Australian Internet artist Mary-Anne Breeze are as multifaceted and multilayered as is her artistic work. In issue #005 of Re: MAGAZINE Mary-Anne Breeze talks about her own language of artistic creation called mezangelle which is composed by the playful use of aspects of form and content like orthography, semantics and punctuation and mixed with the hybrid use of segmented code and programming languages, Internet-slang and literary texts. In her own words, her works "r never really finished; they kinda hang together in a faux_fixed state, rdy.4.the.next.incarnation."
BOOK: Words to Be Looked At - Language in 1960s Art
Words to Be Looked At - Language in 1960s Art
by Liz Kotz
Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s - whether in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall, or recorded speech. In Words to Be Looked At, Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and experimental music created in and around New York City from 1958 to 1968. In many of these works, language has been reduced to an object nearly emptied of meaning. Robert Smithson described a 1967 exhibition at the Dwan Gallery as consisting of “Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read.” Kotz considers the paradox of artists living in a time of social upheaval who used words but chose not to make statements with them.
Txt of the Living Dead by Notzold
An American mashup artist let passers-by put words in giant zombies’ mouths last week. The show, called Txt of the Living Dead, projected 15-foot-wide, black-and-white stills from George A. Romero’s classic 1968 horror flick Night of the Living Dead onto buildings. Text messages from random people on the street then filled comics-style speech balloons that were added to the images in what New York artist Paul Notzold called an “SMS-enabled interactive street performance.
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Life Spacies 2 by Christa Sommerer / Laurent Mignonneau
Life Spacies 2 is an interactive Artificial Life environment where users can create artificial creatures by typing text messages.
The constant movement, feeding, mating and reproduction activities of the creatures result in a complex system that features complex interactions among creatures as well as users and creatures based on written text as a primary source of (genetic) information: Art as a living process.
According to Noam Chomsky, human language acquisition is based on a universal grammar that is genetically embedded within the human mind of all normal children, allowing them to learn their native languages naturally and seemingly effortlessly 1. It was also Chomsky who coined the phrase of “colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” Though this sentence, as Chomsky has shown, is grammatically correct, its meaning cannot be grasped through logic alone. Inspired by Chomsky’s sentence and based on the idea of using language as a genetic code and translating words or sentences into visual forms, we have created an interactive system for the Internet, called Life Spacies 2 and an updated version, called Life Spacies II 3.
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Visual Poems – Abstract video works on the net
Visual Poems – Abstract video works on the net
a Video Vortex channel composed by Simon Ruschmeyer
Video maker Simon Ruschmeyer (DE, 1980) explores, in theory as well as practice, the borderline areas between classical audiovisual narration and the new possibilities proferred by interactivity and networked communication. Ruschmeyer has realised countless video projects and has recently completed his paper The Moving Web – Forms and Functions of Moving Images on the Internet. His research into new types of artistic production and distribution on the net can be visited on movingweb.org.
What about abstract or poetic web videos? Aren’t they objecting the rules of the medium by not impressing the viewer with fast food entertainment? Or are they by contrast indeed exploring the rules of the new medium by addressing issues like fragmentation or postmodernity?”
Questions:
1.) In which way would you describe the Internet as a reference point or habitat for your work? Does it have any effects on your production or distribution process?
2.) What is your interest in abstract/poetic forms? Do you see a specific difference of abstract web videos to experimental film or video art?
LANGUAGE@INTERNET
LANGUAGE@INTERNET will focus research on the pivotal role of language under the new medial conditions of use and interacting with the various societal domains.
Linguistic concerns, including sociolinguistic, discourse analytic, and pragmatic perspectives will be at the centre of interest, but it will have to include the conditions, functions and constraints of the societal domains like law, economy or medicine, as they are factors in shaping language and are themselves transformed in their practice in the process. In order for society to be able to exploit and implement these new uses, there has to be a body of scientific knowledge for these domains to draw upon in application and teaching. The purpose of this journal is not only to enhance our linguistic body of knowledge, but also to make available a repository of knowledge for application.
No to Google, yes to Open Archiving
Several major libraries have started saying no to Google’s offer to digitize their books for free - so long as the digitized books are not made available to any commercial search engine but Google.
Instead, these libraries are going with the Internet Archive’s Open Archive Alliance, where it does cost $30 to digitize each book, but the content is genuinely open. As a librarian at the Boston Public Library says in this short video at the Open Content Alliance, an important principle of libraries is that they should be open to everyone - indeed, the Boston Public Library has the words “FREE FOR ALL” emblazoned above the entrance door. The New York Times also reports on this.---
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