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1. Generationenprojekt

   The GenerationenProject is a history written from below. Here memories, diary entries and literary texts are published that revolve around historical events that have affected us all. For in the middle of the great story that we read about in the history books, we are also given the history of the people who experienced both painful and beautiful moments.

   (Source: Project Description, translated by Kine-Lise M. Skjeldal)

   Kine-Lise Madsen Skjeldal - 02.10.2021 - 00:37

2. Magnet

   Magnet is an interactive work employing remote visual sensing techniques and large scale digital video projection. Magnet employs two computers, two low light video cameras and two high resolution data projectors. The work also includes interactive quadraphonic audio.

   The idea of the work came from a news story about Dutch scientists who levitated a frog four metres above the ground, without harm, using intense magnetic fields. This work imagines that other forces, such as fear or desire, might also achieve this end. The figures, approximately four metres tall, emerge from the floor of the gallery, hovering above the viewers. They also get stuck in the roof, just their dangling feet still visible. They can only be rescued through interaction with various of the other figures. Using realtime translucent digital layering techniques, the figures are able to merge with one another, creating further beings of arbitrary gender.

   (Source: Artist's statement from the project site)

   Simon Biggs - 21.09.2010 - 11:59

3. Fibonacci's Daughter

   With Fibonacci's Daughter the challenge was to capture the Fibonacci precepts--elements of predictability in natural forms--in a narrative. His mathematical sequence of numbers and golden sector were sources for narrative shape, structural organization, and design motif. I wanted the story to have a sense of spiraling both in and out at the same time--disappearing at the center and diffusing at the margins. The structure is based on the Fibonacci golden mean; the spatial access is through a shopping mall that is a golden square. Backgrounds, images, and motifs are drawn from Fibonacci's work. The story has, as well, a shadow of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Rappacini's Daughter," in a certain altered perception of pattern. Borges lurks.

   (Source: Author's note at The New River)

   Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 09:11

4. Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment

   Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment emerged as a response to a discourse of disembodiment prevalent in early days of the Internet. I never believed that the physical gendered body would be subsumed in an idealized information age. Even in our attempts to externalize and expand upon the processes of the brain through the computational and storage capacities of the computer, the precariousness of the biological body persists. Somewhere along the way cultural theory veered away from body politics. Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment examines from the inside, not just 'the' body, but also 'my' body in particular. I have focused on the storage and retention of bodily memory in order to explore the relationship and/or disconnect between body and mind that has preoccupied philosophers for generations.

   J. R. Carpenter - 28.09.2013 - 15:39

5. Das Kollektive Gedächtnis

   Bored? E-mail and chat with AOL and the internet. 

   Can "the interactive" be the fun factor of online art?

   I'm thinking it's not "the interactive", but rather the "interacting", namely with other real people. Hence the success of chats and forums and mailing lists. But hence also the failure of interactive artworks, where I as a user should be playing with a machine as well as myself.... !

   If one simply looks at the works, one will probably find no "internet literature" in what circulates here: the differens collaborative projects, the texts to be forwarded, the collective stories and collections. The objection is always right: one could have done this on paper....

   And yet: one CANNOT do it on paper. Not with THESE people that we have met on the internet - and with other people in the print world or locally in creative writing-workshops it would have been very different! 

   Translated by Kine-Lise Madsen Skjeldal

   Kine-Lise Madsen Skjeldal - 30.09.2021 - 19:16

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