Archive for November, 2009

_:terror(aw)ed patches:_ [A Google Wave(let) Transformation Wurk]

November 27th, 2009 by netwurker | 3 comments

Announcing: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ A Google Wave(let) Transformation by Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez, 2009 Title: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ Original URL: http://non-playercharacter.com/?p=43 Description: Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez create a new method of collaborative “fiction” through _live concurrent editing_ in Google Wave. This process results in expressive output[s] termed “Transformations”: “Google Wave uses an algorithmic variation of [...]

apophatic art

November 26th, 2009 by curtc | 0

Here are some out of context quotations from a talk I gave the other day about my art practice: +++++++++++++++++ One affirms something but denies it, because to affirm it too strongly would be heretical and to deny it completely would also be heretical. – Bruce Ellis Benson Negation and affirmation bear upon the same [...]

austraLYSIS performance in Sydney including digital poetics

November 23rd, 2009 by hsmith | 0

Please find below details of the next austraLYSIS performance: austraLYSIS Programme, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 20.00 in the New Music Network series. Hazel Smith and austraLYSIS : Instabilities 2 Roger Dean : ElectroIntensities (premiere) austraLYSIS : CloudSpotting #1 (premiere) Robert Normandeau : Malina (2000) (first presentation in Sydney) Interval Robert [...]

an artist talk and a performance

November 22nd, 2009 by curtc | 0

On Tuesday here in Asheville, NC, I’m talking about my artwork and research. I will have a small installation present. It is a table on which people place objects. Inset into the table is a screen running this pseudo-random animation. The animation is of (mostly) noun phrases from late-era Emily Dickinson poems, set in a [...]

London Churches, Part 2

November 19th, 2009 by picot | 0

“Coffee stall by the front entrance. People drinking coffee in the shade of a tree. More or less everyone in suits. Business coffee-break. Giles, meet me at half-two, outside the church, for a power-espresso. Stockbrokers, financiers, commodity-dealers. I don’t do tangibles, I do invisibles, I’m into futures, that’s where the big money is. Right in [...]

AG3 Call for Artwork

November 11th, 2009 by heliopod | 1 comment

NetPoetic is co-curating, with the AG3 Conference,  an online exhibition of newly created artworks and poetry that specifically responds to the ideas and theories of Arakawa and Gins. The first deadline, Dec 1,  is a simple proposal stage, with all works due Feb 1, 2010.    Explore the Exhibition Call for Work page for all the [...]

Reviewed: ‘A Philosophy of Computer Art’ by Dominic McIver Lopes

November 5th, 2009 by Jim Andrews | 5 comments

I wrote the below review about two months after doing a video interview with Dominic Lopes. So the review has the benefit of considerable exchange—and considerable exchange of email—with Dr. Lopes. I wish that, during the video interview, I had been able to raise the criticisms that I raise in the review. But I had not [...]

Call for work: ELO_AI: Archive & Innovate 2010

November 3rd, 2009 by danielhowe | 0

ELO_AI: Archive & Innovate

The Electronic Literature Organization’s
Fourth International Conference
& Program of Digitally Mediated Literary Art

June 3-6, 2010
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA

reading programs (part 4)

November 2nd, 2009 by Joerg Piringer | 0

it’s getting readable again before i turn back into the illegible at the following and last chapter. the first language for this fourth part of my small series is called ORK short for Objects R Kool. ORK is an object oriented language with a very verbose syntax. Unlike most of the esoteric programming languages you [...]