Jim Andrews
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Works in Victoria Canada

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BIO
Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com . He is a poet-programmer and audio guy. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media.
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DISCUSSION

great page of links to algorithmic art on the net


this is one of my favorite pages of links on the net: http://www.gratin.org
. this is antoine schmitt's page of links to algorithmic art.

"This site is dedicated to the forms of art using programs as a first class
material. So actual and yet so classical.

algorithmic art
cybernetic art
generative art
genetic art
artificial art
interactive art
software art
=> programmed art

Systems - models - simulations - processes - cybernetics - real time -
artificial entities - animats - robots - interactivity -
intersubjectivity -perceptive systems - autopoiesis

This site mainly consists in a list of links to sites having to do with
dynamic programmed art (exhibitions, theory, documentation of pieces,
technologies, critiques).

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Commission Voting: Finalist Ranking


I'm curious about what sort of art gets voted for.

I haven't gone through the finalist list yet. Plan to, though, over the next
few days.

Has anybody done so and have any pithy obs on the type of things that got
voted for?

One may ask quite validly, as Marc has, what voting does for a community,
but I confess I am less interested in community than I am in art, am more
interested in what voting supports as art.

ja
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Re: Commission Voting: Finalist Ranking


Well, I didn't make the finalists list, but I gotta say I think the
rhizome.org project of getting funding to commission work and then building
good software to support a member voting process on proposals is really
great.

Also, those who submitted proposals and voted, whether they were successful
or not in their proposal, I'm sure will take a special interest in seeing
how the winning proposals pan out. It's a really great way of involving the
membership in the process from start to finish.

So all best wishes to the finalists and I hope the projects that get
commissioned are terrific.

I didn't have this done for the rhizome proposal process, but here's a 6:21
Quicktime video I've finished since then that I will be using in future
proposals on the project I proposed; I'll be going ahead on this project
anyway; it's been in the works for a long time and may yet be a long time
before completion, but it's happening slowly but surely:
http://vispo.com/bc/Sorenson3-4/Sorenson3-4.html . This is the second time
I've had a proposal on this project turned down, but I'm going to keep at
it. I suck at proposals. But I plan to get better at it.

And here are the Shockwave demos the video refers to:
http://vispo.com/bc/a
http://vispo.com/bc/b
http://vispo.com/dbcinema

ja

DISCUSSION

creating videos of projects


Jason posted a while ago asking for software packages that let you fairly
easily create a video of your onscreen project. For juries and such.

Someone recommended Macromedia Captivate. Thanks. I've checked it out and it
seems pretty good especially for online distribution.

I had a prob with it though. I want to be able to narrate and have other
audio in the background from my project at the same time. I'm under the
impression that you can't do that with Captivate.

Have just downloaded the trial version of Camtasia which I think gets around
that prob. So I'd also recommend checking out Camtasia.

ja
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Re: proposal order


You guys are on the job, Patrick. Thanks. Your procedure distributes the jar
of eyeballs evenly among the proposals. That sounds fair to me.

ja
http://vispo.com