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1. Suits: A Narrative of About Twenty-Seven Hours, More or Less

   Author's description from The New River: 

   This piece tells the story of a character's response to her father's death. In creating this piece, I worked in Flash ActionScript 3.0 to code a random trigger function, so that when you click on the suit icon a random sound file plays and an associated text appears on the screen.

   Scott Rettberg - 11.10.2011 - 14:01

2. How Am I Not Myself

   With Jason Huff's "How Am I Not Myself?" we have a play on biography and the refraction of the self as replicated within a Wikipedia entry by workers from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. As Huff tells us, this piece "aggregates information about all the Jason Huffs on the Internet [and] acts as an open-source platform for identity remix." That is, as long as Wikipedia doesn't find out about it.

   (Source: Alan Bigelow in The New River)

   Note: this page was deleted from Wikipedia.

   Scott Rettberg - 11.10.2011 - 14:20

3. Scrape Scraperteeth

   Scrape Scraperteeth

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 21.10.2011 - 10:24

4. Turkmenbashi, mon amour

   The animation "Turkmenbashi, mon amour" features the famous virtual character Mouchette created by Franco-Dutch artist Martine Neddam in 1997. The scenario was inspired by a love letter addressed to Turkmenistan’s dictator, the late Saparmyrat ‘Turkmenbashi’ Nyýazow. Over occasional sightings of his image (statues, digital photos, monuments) in the city of Achgabat, she comments, ironically, about one of the most repressive and least known dictator on Earth. Dealing with a highly sensitive topic, the adventures of Mouchette in Turkmenistan stages the meeting of two fictitious characters, one being the dictator, in order to convey actual information about a real country. The work was exhibited first in the Montreal Biennale 2011.

   David Prater - 24.10.2011 - 10:30

5. Bodies of Water

   Bodies of Water

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 26.10.2011 - 09:25

6. Noise

   Noise was made for thetextisthetext (Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, 2011). It is a concrete poem which offers a representation of computer noise, shown as a series of 0s and 1s randomly flipping back and forth. As the noise increases, the typefaces begin to change. Noise is a lo-fi piece, essentially a flip book animation transferred from page to computer screen: the image had to be moving in order to represent noise, and I could see no reason why a concrete poem had to be a still image. The content was gathered using Word before transferring it over to Director for the animation. Whilst referring to computer noise, this piece is not a mimetic representation. The layout was set to resemble that of a poem on a page rather than the usual images of binary code on screen which signify computer. Likewise, instead of machine-readable fonts I used Times New Roman as the main typeface. The poem on the page provided the reference point and this was to show that, like most remediations, the computer progresses partly by denying itself. (Source: author)

   Gerald Smith - 02.11.2011 - 16:50

7. An Evening In Front Of The Box

   An Evening In Front Of The Box was first shown at DOCument (ECA, Edinburgh 2011) and later included in the I Am Not A Poet text festival at the Totalkunst Gallery (Edinburgh, 2011). It is a lo-fi animation, little more than a gussied up slide presentation. It consists of white text placed against a black background and it has two parts: the main body of the text which offers instructions on how to watch television, and  a punctuation poem - a full stop located at the centre of the screen – which opens and closes the piece. The animation is shown on a flat screen television.

   I am interested in how people’s behaviour shape, and are shaped by, the technologies that they use. In 2008 I made a series of instruction pieces which took contemporary technologies and imposed upon them the social conventions associated with older forms (e.g. using a music download as if it were a 45rpm vinyl record). An Evening In Front Of The Box is an animated reworking of one of these texts, and it instructs the viewer on how to watch their television as if it were a late 1960s black and white set.

   Gerald Smith - 04.11.2011 - 12:15

8. Ideas of Beauty: Conversations

   Ideas of Beauty: Conversations is an internet-based participatory book composed of sound and text, which embodies a selection of women's processes, thoughts, and advice about beauty. It is based upon an exploration of how women, in general, think of themselves in relation to the ideologies of beauty and its societal pressures. Since it is only the outcome of the repetitive and laborious procedures affiliated with beauty that are seen, I am bringing the time consuming and sometimes painful processes associated with the rituals of beautification to the forefront. This artwork is meant to invite the viewer to interact with it by listening and sharing a moment in order to obtain a better understanding of how the processes of a beautification ritual become an integrated aspect of a woman's internal self.

   David Prater - 09.11.2011 - 12:31

9. Slechte adem in de mist (Bad breath in the mist)

   Gedicht met interactieve elementen. De cursor werkt als een zaklamp en maakt de teksten die komen en gaan beter leesbaar. Maar sommige zinnen vluchten voor het licht, proberen te ontsnappen ... Het verhaal suggereert een dialoog tussen twee homo's op een bank in een pikdonker park. Na verloop van tijd breekt de ochtend mistig aan, de woorden worden compleet onleesbaar. Een merel begint te zingen ...

    

   David Prater - 09.11.2011 - 15:21

10. De anderen hebben het gedaan (The others did it)

    Een serie webpagina’s met op iedere pagina een tekst/gedicht waarvan de inhoud en de presentatie verandert onder invloed van online beschikbare dynamische gegevens over gebeurtenissen die elders op de wereld plaatsvinden. De koppeling tussen een tekst en een website wordt bepaald door de thematische verwantschap tussen website en tekst. Die verwantschap is niet eenduidig, niet eendimensionaal, de tekst handelt niet direct over het onderwerp waar de aan die tekst gekoppelde site over gaat. De lezer van de tekst heeft zelf geen invloed op de inhoud en presentatie van die tekst. Die invloed wordt uitgeoefend door veranderingen in ded data van de site of door het online gedrag van bezoekers aan die website.

    Voor deze call hebben we één data poem gekozen: #1 : Stemmingswisselkoers (Mood Exchange Rate). Een tekst die veranderingen in de AEX-index volgt. Toont de beurs een stijgende lijn dan krijgt de tekst een optimistischer toon dan bij dalende koersen. In dat laatste geval wordt de tekst pessimistischer van toon. Onder invloed van de stemming worden bepaalde sleutelwoorden en zinnen vervangen door andere.

    David Prater - 10.11.2011 - 14:31

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