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Clearance
Inspired by British stone carver Billy Johnson who, in 2007, left a series of stone heads outside houses and public locations across the North of England, Clearance presents the user/reader with a series of barren, mouse-responsive landscapes and video sequences littered with renmants of narratives from an unexplained apocalyptic event.
Andy Campbell - 19.05.2011 - 13:26
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Det siste utbruddet / The Last Volcano
This video project explores Norwegian folk histories that return as fragments in light of ongoing volcanic eruptions. The project was recorded in Bergen following the disruptions caused by the activities of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. A folk history of disaster is set against slowly revolving images set in a contemporary landscape. This is the first of a series of works recorded in Norway that juxtapose folk histories and contemporary events to explore narrative and associative characteristics of cultural anxieties and collective memory. The project was researched and filmed by Roderick Coover in 2010 thanks to a distinguished-scholar-in-residence award from the University of Bergen.
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 22:55
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remixthebook.com
In remixthebook, Mark Amerika develops a model of contemporary theoretical writing that mashes up the rhetorical styles of performance art, poetry, and the vernacular associated with 21st century social media and networking culture.
Amerika, along with co-curator and artist Rick Silva, has invited over 25 contributing international artists, poets, and critical theorists, all of them interdisciplinary in their own practice-based research, to sample from remixthebook and manipulate the selected source material through their own artistic and theoretical filters. The curators were especially excited about working with colleagues who formally experiment with digital video, audio remixes, critical text collage, computer imaging, social media, glitch, poetry, electracy, copyleft, and online performance.
(Source: Description from the project site)
Scott Rettberg - 22.09.2011 - 11:39
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I know that somewhere this is a homage some where
"I know that somewhere here this is a homage some where" is a mixed media appropriation designed to be streamed via a web browser. It combines the opening seqeunce of Welles' "Citizen Kane" with text from Nelson's "Literary Machines". This intertwingling reverberates in all sorts of ways, simply in their being drawn together. Kane's mansion (never finished) was Xanadu, and of course Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" was the result of a vision that was never able to be realised. Yet from within these impossible visions (which is probably also a rather apt way of considering Welles' life as a film maker) great works have been produced. There are other, more complex layers - for instance Citizen Kane's narrtive structure as memory palace, the film's appropriation of other discourses (newsreel, radio, literature), its play between the linear temporality of cinema and the nonlinearity of its flashback structure - but these are less explicit than the simple corollaries between Xanadu, Coleridge, Welles and Nelson.
(Source: Author's description from The New River 6)
Scott Rettberg - 12.10.2011 - 12:18
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Je liegt en je filtert ... (You're lying and you filter ...)
A dictation exercise. Girls in an educational black & white setting. Sentences (well-pronounced but sloppily) read by a male voice at dictation speed. The reaction of the girl in focus colors the content.
David Prater - 09.11.2011 - 15:32
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INJECTIES (INJECTIONS)
Een modern gebouw. Iedereen is er. Wachtend op de start van een experiment. Een vrouw in een ziekenhuisbed geniet buiten van de paradijselijke sfeer. Tot ze wordt binnengerold. Twee verpleegsters beginnen een behandeling waarbij injecties worden gecombineerd met taal.
David Prater - 09.11.2011 - 15:36
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What we had has not yet been / Wat we hadden is nog niet geweest
Originally conceived as an interactive installation for the 2007 Literature and New Media project in the Waag, Amsterdam, this production by Jan Baeke and Alfred Marseille mixes poetry, moving images and sound in a movie directed by words, and talks about memory, longing, the misguided monologue and the importance of the kitchen in modern society.
Images and sounds are mainly drawn from the Prelinger archives.
This version is an entirely new English language edit made for the 2011 Beijing Book Fair and also featured at the 2011 Noorderzon festival in Groningen (Netherlands).
David Prater - 09.11.2011 - 15:43
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Jacques Brel op 8 april 1929 bij zijn geboorte Avenue du Diamant 138, Schaerbeek
The poem ‘Jacques Brel op 8 april 1929 bij zijn geboorte Avenue du Diamant 138, Schaerbeek’ (‘Jacques Brel on the 8th of April 1929 at his birth Avenue du Diamant 138, Schaerbeek’) is a part of the cycle ‘Birth cry’. In this case the poet puts words the day of his birth into Jacques Brel’s mouth. Brel on his first day of life is speaking in words of a vision he has about hiscareer as a famous Belgian chansonnier.
Graphic designer Timo Pennings made from the lines of poetry a silent film where the words of Brel sing, jump and dance like he did in the theatre. He added piano music and the noise of the sea (Jacques Brel was an enthusiastic yachtsman).
David Prater - 10.11.2011 - 14:11
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Negative Space: a Computerized Video Novel
"The first in a line of "computer video novels" that meld text, graphics, and video", according to Robert Kendall in his article "Writing for the New Millenium: the Birth of Electronic Literature." The WorldCat entry summarised it thus: "Through interplay of computer and video, the story of a professor and his wife and their quest to start a family is told," and specifies that the work consists of a VHS tape with a 3.5" floppy disk.
(The publication date is from the WorldCat record for the floppy disk edition, and I haven't found any supporting evidence of such an early date - or another date, either. Is it likely that the CD version would have come five whole years later?)
Jill Walker Rettberg - 06.12.2011 - 13:57
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Negative Space: A Computerized Video Novel (CD-ROM edition)
The CD-ROM edition of a "computerized video novel" first published in 1990. See entry for original publication for details.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 06.12.2011 - 14:02
