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Cloud Poems
Rosenblatt, a Dutch-American writer, designer, and artist, devises a creation of cloud-gazing intensity. Through an interwoven quilt of poetry and sky, Ella accomplishes, in our view, two opposing goals at the same exact moment. Gorgeously constructed and written, this project offers the reader a period of respite and calm. In today’s world of screen time and hyper-connectedness, where attention has become a commodity and our lives are spent stressfully indoors, this is no small feat. And yet, like any good poem, these “Cloud Poems” are calls to action. Mesmerizing in their quiet energy, they ask us to take responsibility for what we give our attention to. As Thomas Merton writes, “I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place, and a day in which I have not shared truly in all this is no day at all.” Ella Rosenblatt’s “Cloud Poems” tell us, in essence, to look up.
[Source: Kira Homsher and John Darcy's Fall 2020 Editors' Note of The New River.]
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 20:20
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Caitlin Foley
Caitlin Foley
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 20:32
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Infinite Worries Bash
Infinite Worries Bash is a participatory experience consisting of recorded worries collected from hundreds of people and presented as part of a continuous audio portrait emanating from a virtual piñata-inspired sculpture.
Tapping the screen or clicking the mouse will make a virtual stick smack a 3D rendered sculpture on screen. A direct hit triggers the playback of worries collected from the American public since the 2016 election.
[Source: The New River, edited by contributor.]
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 20:34
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Fall 2020 Editors' Note
Last March, halfway through assembling the Spring 2020 issue of The New River, we had to adjust to a fully online mode of collaboration. Between then and now, though a tremendous amount has changed, our mission has remained the same. Since its foundation, The New River has devoted its platform to emerging and established artists exploring the intersection of digital art and literature. The COVID-19 pandemic has shed new light on what it means to run a digital journal, especially at a time when so many of our daily interactions and responsibilities have, by necessity, shifted to the digital realm.
The work we have selected for our Fall 2020 issue helps us come into a deeper understanding of how this current period of crisis strips bare long-standing inequities and injustices, calling us to exercise a cache of empathy and compassion we might have never known before. These pieces demonstrate how art can be a guiding force through even the most turbulent times, pushing us beyond our private quarantine bubbles and back into the world, where art and creativity persist.
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 20:46
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Amanda Hodes
Amanda Hodes
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 20:59
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Sonya Lara
Sonya Lara
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 21:00
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The New River (Spring 2021)
The New River (Spring 2021)
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 21:04
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Spring 2021 Editors' Note
Our spring 2021 issue arrives over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Arguably, we’ve integrated ourselves into digital spaces more than ever before: workplaces have morphed into Slack, classrooms have become Zoom rooms, conferences have trickled into Discord, and social events have turned into FaceTime calls. Although we often frame this digitalization as a limitation, the work in The New River continues to remind us of the innovative affordances of digital creation and connection.
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 21:07
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Unerasable Characters III
The unerasable series explores the politics of erasure and the temporality of voices within the context of digital authoritarianism. It presents the sheer scale of unheard voices by technically examining and culturally reflecting the endlessness, and its wider consequences, of censorship that is implemented through technological platforms and infrastructure.
The series collects unheard voices in the form of censored/erased (permission denied) data, including emojis, symbols, textual characters, which is based on one of the biggest social media platforms in China – Weibo via the system called “Weiboscope“, a data collection and visualization project developed by Dr. Fu King-wa from The University of Hong Kong, in which the system has been regularly sampling timelines of a set of selected Chinese microbloggers who have more than 1,000 followers or whose posts are frequently censored.
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 21:14
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Kristen Gallerneaux
Kristen Gallerneaux
Amanda Hodes - 07.06.2022 - 21:29
