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A Tree with Managers and Jittery Boats
Artist StatementMulti-level menus as poetry generator, for when lines branch and branch. When writing a poem, often any line could generate out new directions, intersecting poems, branching possibilities. Using the modified code of a menu-sub-menu, I…
Wittenoom: speculative shell and the cancerous breeze
Artist StatementDigital 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,…
Evidence of Everything Exploding
Artist StatementEvidence of Everything Exploding is a game driven digital poem exploring various historical and contemporary texts. Each level's poetic content is built from the document's sub-sub texts and curious consequences. With Bill Gates'…
VideoGraph Fictions
Artist StatementA 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…
With love from a failed planet
Artist StatementA 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…
Sydney's Siberia
Artist StatementSydney's Siberia recreates how networks build exploratory story-scapes through an interactive zooming/clicking interface. Using 121 poetic/story image tiles, the artwork dynamically generates mosaics, infinitely recombining to build…
Babelswarm
Artist StatementActivated by the voices of visitors in the real-world gallery and chat messaging from virtual visitors in Second Life, a swarm of letter cubes - programmed to seek out their original word position - slowly builds a morphing, virtual…
The Far South East of the Soul
Artist StatementThis is a simple work. It is a cycle of poems, randomly interlinked. It is not radical in its use of technology - the randomising perl script is the most natural way to navigate the cycle of poems because, while all the poems were…
Assemblage for Collective Thought [ACT]
Artist StatementACT - assemblage for collective thought - is an ongoing conceptual and aesthetic collaboration, an assemblage of technologies and techniques for collaboration. It enables participants to think collectively. By 'think' here we do…
Vog a (BETA) videoblog: Wednesday Bergen
Artist StatementThis 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…
Vog a (BETA) videoblog: Compendium of works
Artist StatementThis 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…
READ_RUN_EXECUTE_ : Pirating the archaic energy
Artist StatementPirating sensor data from the Roller Derby players to use as framework to trigger text feeds - past, present & realtime from skaters, audience and artists. Expanding the action on the track, the screen displays a data-mash: live…
Take Me There: Bring Me Back
Artist StatementA live video feed from the room where I often sleep captures the canal outside the window, a well-traversed trade route into Amsterdam. A live web cam sequences at 6 sec time intervals and transmits this via the Internet, which opens…
I am Googable Therefore I am
Artist StatementOn a coding craft level "I am googable therefore I am" is coded to be a live aggregated feed, made with Beautiful Soup - a coding language mix of Python HTML/XML. This is programmed to hit the artists name each day to give a read out…
ism / breath / she / who / with / I
Artist StatementTranscending the realm of the anecdotal, in the dark magic space of the shell, the artist divines classic texts, reconfigures it into lists, a literary pirate she reveals its treasure. Using command tools (cat, sed, grep, regex) from…
Error_In_Time()
Sitting with her back to the audience, Nancy Mauro-Flude uncovers visually opening up the insides of the operating system behind our daily computer interactions. Through enquiring conversations, the amplified sound of Mauro-Flude's fingertips dancing…
The Use: Now you are talking
Chris Mann's poetry is complicated to the point of breathlessness. When engaging with a Mann poem for the first time it is as if one has suddenly become dyslexic: the words are there, but their construction resists meaning. The complex facade of a…
The Use
This work is a poetic tour de force in which Mann shows how much information can be lost when language is written down. Intonation, cadence, volume, emphasis, pause, breathing, and so much nonverbal information infuses the recorded vocal performances…