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carrier (becoming symborg)
carrier investigates the fluid boundaries of the body and the self via viral symbiosis in the biological and virtual domains by weaving an intimate love story between the viewer and the hepatitis C virus. The site integrates artificial and viral intelligence with immune system and computer operating system discourse within the swarming electronically networked nervous system of our planet — the world wide web, immersing the viewer in VRML worlds, Shockwave games, and Java-generated textual landscapes. We are lead through the site by sHe, an intelligent viral agent, who crosses our species boundary, penetrating our cellular core, repositioning viral infection as positive biological merging with the flesh. We become symborg as the boundaries between human / machine / species dissolve. carrier comes in several versions, allowing the viewer to navigate alone or with the virus, as well an offline gallery stand-alone version. (Source: Author's description from ELC, Vol. 1.)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.04.2011 - 13:23
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Using Gowalla to Create a Historical Narrative
A description of a historical, documentary tour of Michigan Agricultural College Tour created by a group of grad students at The Michigan State University Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2011 - 15:14
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The Walking Man
"Obstacles become playgrounds, playgrounds obstacles." A study of the pedestrian's everyday encounters with the city.
(Source: Author's website)
Meri Alexandra Raita - 27.01.2012 - 11:56
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Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet is a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and its affect upon New Orleans, LA. “Combining sound, text, photography, video, and several maps, the piece sculpts an evocative and poignant landscape that nonetheless refuses all registers of nostalgia, insisting as it does that we locate Katrina and the Crescent City among multiple trajectories of policy, memory, and representation”
(Source: “Blue Velvet”—Vectors, cited in the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue).
Blue Velvet: Re-Dressing New Orleans in Katrina's Wake" is an interactive essay enabling its users to submerge themselves in a poetic wordscape describing the contours of American racial politics post-Katrina.
Artists' Statement
Meri Alexandra Raita - 30.01.2012 - 12:16
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Guantanamobile
The Guantanamobile Project is an attempt to both inform and collect public opinion. The Guantanamobile Project has three primary components - a website which serves as an information and survey database and networking center; and a mobile "Guantanamobile" that will circulate information, perform field research, and hold nightly projection events; and an documentary about the practice of wartime detentions at Guantanamo Bay.
(Source: the Guantanamobile Project website)
Meri Alexandra Raita - 30.01.2012 - 12:29
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[Murmur]
[Murmur], a documentary oral history, records aural stories and memories and geolocates them exactly. Now in its ninth year, this ample, well-curated archive features stories from twelve cities on four continents and loads quickly on mobile device.
(Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)
Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.02.2012 - 16:17
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Modern Mother
In Modern Mother storytelling is both the subject of the piece, as well as its form of delivery. Stamp conducted audio interviews with her mother in 1995, literally asking, “Tell me a story about your life.” What her mother tells is not a story but rather a series of stories, or fragments of stories, that make up the narrative of her life. The tales, like all family tales, reveal emotionally charged secrets: the dream to dance on stage, the experience of molestation, an abortion gone awry. The user can only access these stories by entering into a closet, the space where secrets are hidden. And it is the user who decides how much to hear. Do you want to know more about “D is for dream,” “H is for Hell,” or “O is for oozing”? The choice is yours. Stamp provides a cultural context to these very personal stories by juxtaposing them against the popular music of her mother’s era: pop culture representations of a romanticized life of love, intimacy, and family.
Scott Rettberg - 03.06.2012 - 12:02
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Cultures in Webs: Working in Hypermedia with the Documentary Image
This CD-ROM explores how hypertextual writing and image-making merge in creating projects with nonfiction materials such as photographs, video clips, audio recordings and observational notes. The work includes two hypertextual field projects, one concerning a wine harvest in Burgundy, France, and the other concerning a series of performances in Ghana. The project uses an html-based format to weave among differing modes of writing and image-presentation. The section "The Harvest" was selected for exhibition in the 2001 ELO "State Of The Arts" symposium gallery. Based on two months of participant observation working the harvest at a small vineyard in France, the project combines diaristic writing, visual notes, dialog, exposition, and other forms of writing alongside a fifty-four image sequence. The work also includes videos and slide shows. "Concealed Narratives" offers two routes, interactive paths by which users travel to a series of public events in Ghana. The work explores how cultural battles are imagined and how stories get expressed through performances, visual tropes, and metaphors.
Scott Rettberg - 16.06.2012 - 22:15
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Terminal Time
Terminal Time is a history "engine:" a machine which combines historical events, ideological rhetoric, familiar forms of TV documentary, consumer polls and artificial intelligence algorithms to create hybrid cinematic experiences for mass audiences that are different every single time. History as it was meant to be told!
History is in your hands! Through an audience response-measuring device (applause-meter) connected to a computer, viewing audiences respond to periodic questions reminiscent of marketing polls. These questions occur every 6 minutes during the story. The loudest applause determines the winning answer.
Your answers to these questions allow the computer program to create historical narratives that mirror and even exaggerate your biases and desires. Just clap, watch and enjoy. At long last, Terminal Time gives you the history you deserve!
Scott Rettberg - 06.12.2012 - 16:25
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Calling America
Calling America" is an internet-based oral histories project that explores the possibilities of popular communications technologies in the practice of participatory journalism, documentary and the preservation of people's histories.
Artist Statement
"Calling America" is an internet-based oral histories project that explores the possibilities of popular communications technologies in the practice of participatory journalism, documentary and the preservation of people's histories. Calling America programs make use of cellular telephones and related technologies in conjunction with blogging platforms in the process of producing blog-based documentaries—or blogumentaries—concerning various sites of activist and grass-roots led organizational practices in the United States.
Scott Rettberg - 09.01.2013 - 22:54
