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Digital poetry should surround the reader, to encompass them in the experience, to entice their hands and eyes to move with the language and explore the interface. It's critical for digital writers to see the interface, visuals, sounds, and movements as poetic/fiction elements. Multimedia and interface components are not just navigational holiday lights to pretty up the place, they add/change/expand the artwork. Within this work, I designed a responsive creatures as both fun to play and allow the reader to jump between texts, to read in their own ordering, to non-linearly explore the inherently non-linear nature of poetry. Layering is also of prime importance, as creating a sense of thematic and visual depth, embeds the poetry in a larger world, a more complex poetic.
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A interactive logoed world populated with 45 strange and fantastical stories of the societal/cultural failure of influential net portals, fast food giants, newspapers, airlines, manufacturers and other oddities.
Source of Artist Statement]]> On 11 June 2012, if:book Australia challenged a team of writers and editors to collaborate, write, and publish a book in a single 24-hour period. At midday, the writers gathered at the State Library of Queensland and began working furiously. Their stories were written live on the day, with work in progress posted online to allow readers to watch the story unfold and to submit ideas, suggestions and contributions across media. As the stories were completed, a team of bleary-eyed editors took the text from manuscript to a book.
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This strange island continent and its ever dry centre and clusters of wooded sea tethered cities is compass confused. European colonizers are forever pointed north and west, pining for California culture or European roots, the indigenous population is pulled towards the centre, a home where cartographic directions and menus are irrelevant, and an economic engine and future reality that spins hard, thick arrows pointing east. The rest of the world sees this place, this strange residual of British Empire as down, forever down.
Wide and Wildly Branded uses the compass as an interface, a rounded guide to poetic lines. The top and bottom, the north and south textual lines are at odds, contrasts abstract and relationship and directionally confused. The background video was shot while lost, hiking by a creek that turned into two creeks and then four, pathways alike and specific, threatening and alluring enough to entice wandering. Turn and play along a downward compass, the Antarctic, the Antarctic.
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Welcome to Panopolis explores the im/possibility of uniqueness in digitally networked environments - places where almost everything we want to say is always, already being said by someone else. It uses geographically disparate pieces of data to create a virtual space with distinctive emergent qualities where readers can examine and reflect on the un/predictable, un/reliable nature of online information. By filtering and re-combining social media content, Welcome to Panopolis incites new textual and narrative possibilities.
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This is the video that was used in the vogma manifesto post. This was the manifesto I wrote outlining what I thought videoblogging should be. I still subscribe to these ideas. The video was shoot on the bus from Oslo airport into the city, I played with the sound by taking a shorter duration of sound from the QuickTime clip and then stretching it in QuickTime Pro to match the image track. The film uses a QuickTime text track but it now renders the text very oddly so I have embedded this at twice its size, which actually looks better.
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This videoblog has existed in various locations since 2000 and is being consolidated here. The work is made by Adrian Miles and is experimental, which means it might not work for you. I have written extensively about video blogging and what I have called 'softvideo' and this site is a blog come portfolio of my softvideo practice. I have used several CMS's, including Movable Type and WordPress, and after experimenting with a new template (style) in WordPress decided it was just making everything too complicated. So I've returned to storing all the content in Tinderbox with good old fashioned export of static html and then just synchronising it via FTP to my host. Is this still a blog? I'm not sure. I am not offering comments, but I think comments get in the way of blogging. However, via this method I can't support trackback but if I pay attention to referrer information via something like Google Analytics then you can usually see who links here. However, this is only going to be video and I have an active blog (vlog 4.0) where I do my writing and more usual blogging.
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A strange hybrid work where writing is built directly from the videos and statistical graphs. These are imaginary worlds/possibilities, with the background pop culture videos evidence and inspiration. After mousing over the data points/dots the statistics and lines pop-up. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of creation was determining the percentages and numbers which drive the stories/poetry, and how do those statistics coax the narrative/poetry along into semi-coherent streams. And being a child of the late 70s and 80s I am fascinated by the glory days of absurd pop culture, the notion that a near storyless video game pixeled mouth can eventually have its own branded can of pasta. And then there is the Frankenstein clip. Just damn beautiful, even more so that its now a hundred years old.
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Real-time weather rss feeds drive a series of visualizations. Artistically translates numbers into strange creatures.
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User Unfriendly Interface, CD ROM/Installation on themes of conspiracy theories, male vs female concept of space, dating services, mens issues and personality testing.
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The Urban Codemakers operated in Guildford Lane between August 2010 and February 2011. Their urban renewal project sought to rezone the city through play. It consists of three guilds, street signage, 100+ blog posts, four blogs, a street game, 768 IDEOTAGs, a public demonstration, a public information video in Federation square, a series of academic articles, and three urban planning proposals for the City of Melbourne.
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While net-art becomes increasingly more complex, more database and programming centered, this project shoots for simplicity. Utilizing the basic mouse-follower, Uncontrollable Semantics pulls together over fifty dramatically different sound, image and interactive environments, all through the simple mouse follower. While a simple innovation, this technique allows the user/player/reader to create their own experience, to feel the work come from the screen. Each environment offers four directions to four terms, four semantics, four named creatures. Explore and play and confuse yourself.
Source of Artist Statement]]> ]]> _Twitterwurking_ comprised of sequential "tweets" posted via a microblogging platform called Twitter. The work itself was written in my mezangelle language - a type of merging of programming languages/code with poetic elements. The Twitterwurk sought to incorporate specific users into the narrative by typing the "@" symbol before their name. The users were then made aware of this focused reply and thus deliberately enfolded into the tweetstream/project.
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Tunnel is a site about pornography and online sexuality, the cyber affair, and the ensuing tension between the real cyber sexual experience and the real flesh sexual experience. Tunnel charts the incongruity and incompatibility when the digitally coded self crosses the terminal boundary, questioning early notions of fluid identity and sexuality on the net. The location of cyber relations is the personal intimate feminine private space of online where the boundaries that define personal safety do not seem necessary. Sexual and Emotional Intimacy are achieved in an astoundingly short amount of time - after all online encounters are merely a projection of the self into another who exists only at our fantasy beck and call, who will disappear when the computer is turned off. Or do they? What happens when the cyber lovers meet in flesh space? Will the sensory /data overload blow both their buffers?
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Trope creatively intervenes in the ways that readers engage with literary texts and aims to expand writing networks and to further develop the virtual literary community. Trope features short fiction and poetry in selected exhibitions. Texts are repositioned in a spatialised visual format/s and audio designed for SL users to experience texts in a three dimensional world.
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Tree of Fortune was a major public artwork comprising of 130 LED scrolling text boxes distributed throughout a large tree. Each module displayed an individual scrolling message presented in red LED text, created in collaboration with Brisbane writer Linda Carolli. The work was commissioned for and presented in a prominent riverbank location at Christchurch's 2004 Biennial. It was accompanied by a high quality catalogue publication. The project sought to foster private reflection amongst its viewers around the context of contemporary ecological crises, whilst also calling upon the power of their imagining as a method for retaining positive and critical mindsets in the face of adversity.
This was achieved through ostensibly presenting texts in the form of 'fortune cookie' style statements, but then configuring them to require a personal response. This sense of unravelling questions and answers was further cemented through the qualities of each scrolling text, which only revealed a small part of each phrase at any one time.
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Iconica is an artificial world made of language, populated by lifeforms whose bodies are made of media encoded with different systems of representation. The artificial life model that generates the appearance and behaviour of this world is based on an iconic language which may be combined using grammatical rules to create an endless number of possible meanings. Trans'forms is an abbreviation of the term 'transitional forms' from evolutionary theory. This term refers to the inbetween states that occur when one species evolves into another new species. The new lifeforms depicted above apply this concept to digital media, capturing transitional forms in visual languages as they evolve and adapt to electronic space.
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