2003-08-27

Hypertext readings (4 artists)


See also:
http://wordwrap.de/htreadings/


# This is not a hypertext
# Simon Biggs (?)

[this guy was going to do a piece where nothing happened unless unless the
whole audience kept very still indeed (using a video camera and scrolling text)
-- it's about how you have to concentrate a lot on texts. but it doesn't work,
unfortunately.]

it's not a hypertext, it's a linear text. a sentence that continuously grows,
but is always grammatically correct.

[also found these
http://www.shadoof.net/
http://www.shadoof.net/in/
which look like quite a seriously good read. and apparently his piece is online
too, but not sure where.]



# Art History 101
# Talan Memmott

[Ooh, some good stuff returned under
http://www.google.com/search?q=talon+memmott
for browsing...]

Showing
"The Berth of N.ness" [puntastic, the piece too]

http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/ftpermutations/koreawebart.org/
Talan_Memmott/

Showing
"Self Portrait(s) [as Other(s)]"
...both the photos of the artists and their biographies are recombined: born in
1848, died in 1954 [randomly combined, very nice].



# Talking Cure
# Noah Wardrip Fruin

[The New Media Reader editor! Good book that. He's got a couple of weblogs too,
http://www.newmediareader.com/ -- the book
http://hyperfiction.org/ -- not updated too much
http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/ -- not seen before, but by its neighbourhhood
it looks excellent]

[poetry, recombined with ascii video text on the screen.]


# John Cayley, riverIsland

[hey that was really good]

[two poetry pieces, one where a poem appears gradually on the screen while we
play audio from all over the theatre, and another whether you can hear poems as
you get closer and further away in the presentation.]


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Rumblings:

Hey, this art stuff is brilliant.
http://interconnected.org/home/more/dict/1/ :)

This is what ETCon needs, big style. I've a theory that the reason cybernetics
didn't endure as a field was that it didn't have any artistic binding. I'd love
for the artistic people in our community to look at social software, the
rhizome, and do readings at the conference.

Oh yeah, and have big boxes of Lego so we can regress and just put one brick on
another on another on another on another...