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The
2nd trAce/AltX New Media Writing Competition 2000
Probably some of the best new media work on the Web:
The Winner was
Lexia to Perplexia, by Talan Memmott.
Also worth reading, the works on The
Shortlist
The 1st trAce/AltX Hypertext Competition 1998
won by
Rice, by Jenny Weight.
and The Unknown, by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton and Frank Marquardt.
There were some excellent works, again, on the Shortlist
Visual
Thesaurus
A moving, pulsating, connecting visual
thesaurus by Plumbdesign. Very beautiful!
The
12-hour ISBN JPEG Project
Apparently, this project started on December
30, 1994. In essence it consists of Brad Brace's "hypermodern
imagery" being posted every 12 hours. Why? "The hypermodern
minimises the familiar, the known, the recognisable; it suspends
identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from
determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on
which it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentring
that leaves no privilege to any centre." Heavy stuff. If you think
it's pointless - that's the point. Some people just like looking at
the pictures.
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Degrees
Guest access is allowed
on this specialist portal site dedicated to the arts and creative industries.
It covers work in various categories: visual, multimedia, text and music.
Browsing the site you will find works of art as well information about
festivals and events. Registration as a user, artist or administrator is
via an online form.
Archiving
Imagination
Time, space, text and multimedia
poetry are up for grabs in this project which won support from the Australian
government funding and advisory body. Some of the links work in pop-up
windows that can get hidden from view, so if you click to no avail check
out the windows on the taskbar before giving up and trying somewhere else.
There is an interesting section "collabora" composed of fragments passed
back and forth between a digital artist and a new media writer as they
explored the idea of online collaboration.
The
Art Deadlines List
This comprehensive and fascinating page is a monthly listing of opportunities
for art competitions, exhibitions and so forth which can be viewed
on the Web or delivered as an email newsletter. Although the events it
describes - including writing contests, jobs, scholarships, festivals and funding -
are not always Web based, many are.
Assemblage
Carolyn Guertin is the curator
of this guide, hosted by trAce, to new media art subtitled The Women's New Media Gallery.
The title, Assemblage, is derived from the theoretical perspective of Jacques
Derrida - see the site for more details. The contents range impressively
wide and show that there's more to HTML than e-commerce and the ad-hoc
shoe-horning of text and graphics on to Web pages.
The
Assoziations-Blaster
Billed as a "text machine"
this English version of a German forerunner is set-up to allow users to
create and explore writing and linking techniques. It is not too demanding
of time, and therefore makes a good basic introduction to collaborative
hypertext on the Web. Dive in
and take part.
World
of Awe
What is love? Good question.
You may as well ask an egg as a poet, though. That or visit Yael Kanarek's
site where text is never far away from audio in love letters from a World
Of Awe. It's worth taking some time to browse and read this visually thrilling site with its crumbs of treasure in a rich world textured with words, visuals and sound.
The
Digital Performance Archive
The combination of performance
art and digital technologies is catalogued in this database. Examples
include onscreen interactive performances, and the use of technology
to analyse performances. An Events page provides links to forthcoming
digital performances, conferences, and lectures. The archive is a collaborative
project involving Nottingham Trent University and the University of
Salford.
The
Ensemble
Idle curiosity might be
enough to entice you into The Electronic Writing Research Ensemble site
designed by Teri Hoskin, but that will soon give way to active curiosity
as you explore pages that are by turn poetic, graphically rich, humorous
and serious.
It's difficult to categorise
the site under one heading, because it attempts so much. However, the poetic
impulse is strong. The task of the Ensemble, in their own words, is to
"contribute to research on writing, and to writing as research, in the
(cyber) way of facilitating a continuing inventive practice, a composing
and recomposing, of textuality that is interdisciplinary, poetic, critical,
and personal. The Ensemble wishes no reference point, except that of querying
'research' and 'writing'." All that and time-travelling with Rosalind Brodsky
too.
The Ensemble is based in
the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia with an impressive
array of grants and assistance from the likes of The South Australian Department
for the Arts, the New Media Fund of The Australia Council and The Australian
Network for Art and Technology.
Future
Suture
Upgrade your browsers, download
some more plug ins, slot in an extra 128 meg of RAM, get yourself a T3
connection too. Which isn't entirely fair, because while it isn't designed
for legacy systems, a standard dial-up connection and a fourth generation
browser should see you OK at this site. There are four multimedia projects
here, and they make demands on the wet ware as well as the hardware accessing
the site. If it's interactivity you crave, you've got it here. Even the
overarching metaphor of the title is taxing in a way that any Zen master
would approve. Visit the artists' worlds and see what you think. Future_Suture,
from Perth, Western Australia, is a joint initiative between The Film and
Television Institute and IMAGO Multimedia Centre with funding from the
Australia Council for the Arts, New Media Arts Fund.
Insomnia
If you have ever suffered
from insomnia this interactive poem will ring more than just bells. Some
links take you to other parts of the poem while others open up sound files
and short videos.
Lovebytes
There is plenty to explore
at this site. Lovebytes is a Sheffield, UK, company that organises digital
arts festivals and provides support for artists working with digital media.
Electronic publishing is part of its remit, including the provision of
online digital art archives and a portal through which they can be accessed.
mo[ve.men]tion
Firmly at the innovative
end of arty Web sites, this will not appeal to lovers of linear narrative
(or those who have to pay for the inordinate download times of some of
the graphics). It starts with the statement, crossed out, that "today I
wanted to see a smear of blood on the bus window". After that, you're on
your own in a good-looking labyrinth of post-modern byting of the literary
bullet complete with psychopathology, blood puppets, ascii typography as
art and more, courtesy of mez - see if you can find the meatbody mug shot.
The
Shock Of The View
The Shock of the View: Artists,
Audiences, and Museums in the Digital Age was a six month project lasting
from September 1998 to March 16, 1999. It set out to explore the
similarities and differences between traditional art and new digital work.
Every three weeks new work was added, along the broad themes of object,
space, performance, and the hybrid. Commentaries by invited curators, artists,
educators, and critics and an ongoing listserv will explore the ways digital
media impacts artists, audiences, and museums. The bodies behind the collaboration
are: The Walker Art Center, in association with the Davis Museum and Cultural
Center, Wellesley College, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Wexner Center
for the Arts, The Ohio State University, and Rhizome.
A
Smear of Roses/Hauntings
It's difficult to categorise
this site. It has a strong poetic impulse, as well as vivid short haiku-like
lines, but the additional use of images, animation and soundtrack add up
to something extra: Web poetry and graphics do seem to go together more
and more. Francesca da Rimini, an Australian artist/writer has familiarised
herself with the new medium that the web/CD-Rom offers and created an impressive
work pretty much in a class of its own. Definitely worth looking at but
be prepared for some lengthy download times due to QuickTime movies and
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