2012/05/24

ted warnell

a canadian entrepreneur and freelance artist + his digital art work is exhibited at real and cyberspace art galleries, as well as in print, digital, and web publications + he continues new media explorations and writing for "zn"/a journal of new media experimental visual literary theory practice + his personal web site gallery a "room without walls" provides content to altaVista's e-zone project +
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amaranth borsuk

"between page and screen" is an augmented reality chapbook + it integrates the artist’s book and e-poetry traditions to examine the conventions by which we know an object as a book + the pages of the book contain no text, only square markers that, when displayed before the reader’s webcam, activate a series of animations mapped to the surface of the page + betweenpageandscreen.com +
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obx labs

obx laboratory for experimental media is interested in living letterforms, massively multi-contributor texts and time-travelling provocateurs + they create artwork that utilizes and motivates the software that they develop and the technologies they repurpose + their main goal is to provide both the inspiration and the means for others to push the boundaries of computationally-based expression +
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jason e. lewis

a creative director of obxlabs.net + his wordnozzle is an experiment in painting with text + it enables the user to select any text-only (ascii) file as an input to the nozzle, and then spray the words of text in a continuous stream while controlling the font, size, style and color of the text + the user chooses a text stream and can then manipulate the visual appearance and location of each word as it comes out of the nozzle in a continuous, free-flowing fashion + wordnozzle represents an attempt to partially answer the question: what would a futurist/concrete Poet want in a tool for digitally manipulating text? +
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bill dimichele

the apocryphal painter/poet/musician of the early 21st century + he is said to have studied quantum physics with feynman, philosophy with zoroaster, religion with akiva and art with the great miketta + legends tell of him learning painting from native american shamans on the banks of the monongahela river + on the snow-covered mountaintops of the appalachians he contemplated the emerald tablet of hermes trismegistus, discovering the true significance of the axiom “as above, so below” + dimichelle experimented with various styles and media, with color and black and white, and left as his legacy "score" (magazine for visual poetry) and "tip of the knife" +
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andre vallias

the concept of poem as an open diagram, when it incorporates the notions of plurality, interrelationship and reciprocity of codes, not only garantees the viability of poetry in a society subject to constant technological revolutions, but places it in a privileged position +
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2012/05/23

gary barwin

a canadian poet, composer, visual artist, and performer + he writes in a range of genres including poetry, fiction, visual and concrete poetry, music for live performers and computers, text & sound works, and writing for children and young adults +
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2012/05/20

karl kempton

kempton's typoglifs reveals several important characteristics + carefully designed and impeccably rendered + they suggest virtuoso command of a typewriter + they can produce kinetic effects such as figure/ground reversal or changes in perspective + they are based in visual pun, paradox, and example + some are humorous or satirical + some use words; many do not +
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ben fry

alternative web browser called "tendril" sets precedents aesthetically and technically + tendril is a web browser that constructs typographic sculptures from the text content of web pages + the first page of a site is rendered as a column of text + links in the text are colored, and when clicked, the text for the linked page grows from the location of the link + one of fry’s domains is dimensional typography with implications for digital poetry + also must see processing.org platform +
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noah wardrip-fruin

the famous "screen" is an example of digital installation art but + to view and interact with the piece, a user first enters a room, called the "cave", which is a virtual reality display area with four walls surrounding the participant + the memory texts appear on the background + through bodily interaction, such as using one's hand, a user can move and bounce the text around the walls + The words can be made into sentences and eventually begin to "peel" off and move more rapidly around the user, creating a heightening sense of misplacement +
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kris rzepka

an avantgarde artist and poet on the west coast of canada + “i'm (not) a poet(?)/anti-textualist avant-rutabaga/cyber-paraso-mouton/vibro-chalki-boump" +
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nico vassilakis

artist, poet, and nyc writer + his visual and video poetry is composed of letters and phrase fragments that are swept or cut into shapes emphasizing their structural qualities and ephemeral nature + vassilakis’s visual poetry cen be reffered as a work of grammar and words than an experiment with typography + he works at the words, shoving them together and seeing what they do to each other when placed in close proximity +
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2012/05/18

reconnoitre

the visual research group (baily, corby & mackenzie) which has been working together for over 10 years, through an art practice that explores the intersections of complex systems, technology and information + they are concerned with experience of the network as an environment with a high metabolism whose boundaries are continuously re-shaped + in 2010 they began the "dataart" project with the bbc exploring different ways of organising, visualising and mining their data and programme archives +
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