Jim Andrews
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Works in Victoria Canada

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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

CFP: bpNichol + 20


Thought I would forward this to Rhizome.org. It's a call for papers from
Lori Emerson (she co-mods the Poetics list from Buffalo) who's editing an
issue of Open Letter on bpNichol, the Canadian experimental poet who died in
1988 in his 44th year. She is particularly looking for papers from young
scholars.

Open Letter is a well-known and long-running publication edited by Frank
Davey, a contemporary of Lionel Kearns and George Bowering.

Geof Huth, Marko Niemi, Lionel Kearns, Dan Waber and myself are working on a
to-be-online project which will present some or all of bpNichol's computer
poems (called First Screening) and essays about them; we'll probably also
contribute to Open Letter concerning First Screening.

ja

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Please forward far and wide!

thank you,
Lori

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CFP: bpNichol + 20 (04/01/2007; journal issue)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Deadlines: 1 December 2006 for proposals; 1 April 2007 for finished essays
Journal: Open Letter, A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory
Guest Editor: Lori Emerson

"What often happens on the death of an author is that an institutional
group of textual custodians comes into being

DISCUSSION

-empyre- in October


October on -empyre-

This month on -empyre- the focus will be on a dialogue between Ryan
Griffis and De Geuzen, that will provide an opportunity to explore
themes underlying their participation in the Chicago chapter of Jordan
Crandall's "Under Fire" project.

Some of the potential areas of discussion may include "a research as
practice" approach to creative production, DIY tools, amateur vs
professional forms of activist practice, notions of 'commitment' and
issues of engagement.

Guest Biographies>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Ryan Griffis is an artist and sometimes-amateur writer, curator and tour
guide. He currently writes reviews regularly for ArtUS magazine and has
written for Rhizome.org, New Art Examiner and various other zines and
journals. Ryan's art practice centers around an interest in the critical
potential of tourism and a quasi-fictional travel agency called the
Temporary Travel Office. The Travel Office's recent projects include
research into the connection between parking lots and utopian capitalism
and an unofficial residency with the National Park Service in Florida to
visualize the neglected history of race relations there. His curatorial
projects include YOUGenics, an exhibition exploring the social
implications of genetic technologies and most recently, Under Fire an
exhibition based on artist Jordan Crandall's multidisciplinary and
collaborative discussions around organized violence. He currently
teaches Art & Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.yougenics.net/griffis/
http://yougenics.net
http://temporarytraveloffice.net
http://www.art.uiuc.edu/projects/underfire

De Geuzen (a foundation for multi-visual research) is Riek Sijbring,
Femke Snelting and Renee Turner. Collaborating since 1996, they have
deployed a variety of strategies both on and offline to explore their
interests in female identity, critical resistance, representation, and
narrative archiving. Their research-oriented works and DIY activities
have been featured in Rhizome, Manifesta 3 (Slovenia) Mute and the
Kuenstlerhaus Bremen (Germany). Some of their most recent projects
include, a temporary conversion of a bridge-watcher's house into a news
kiosk, a workshop on future mobile media, a Global Anxiety Monitor
(http://www.geuzen.org/anxiety/ ) and a Critical Browser (http://www.
geuzen.org/browser/ ) While some of their projects are by commission,
many are self-initiated. For a general overview, see: http://www.geuzen.
org/

We are very pleased to welcome our guests and look forward to the
October discussion on -empyre-.

The mods,
http://subtle.net/empyre

DISCUSSION

through a glass


The most interesting narrative spawn of net art is the story of net art
revealed through a glass darkly on the lists.

The most interesting digital game of poetry is in the battles for poetic
territory revealed through a glass darkly on the lists.

These narratives can only be sampled. But they can be sampled in a work.

ja
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Re: Open Source Art Again


> Open Source can create
> better products faster than the old closed source model. Many of
> the most successful software programs in use today, particularly
> on the internet, are Open Source.

Cool. What are five such "most successful software programs in use today, particularly on the Internet"?

ja?
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: regarding the On Colaboration reblog on the Rhiz front page


i remember reading, erm, john carmack--or someone like that--say something like 'the art of programming is in picking the features that both extend the program and offer least resistance to further development.' a narrow conception of the art of programming. but an interesting observation about how programs develop over time.

1.0 is tabula rasa. 2.0 has lots of room. with 3.0 the clay is starting to solidify.

by now, with director, say, which has been around since 1987, they can't change many things, but simply add new things with little (or merely standard) relation to what already exists.

a poet once told me that a story should follow from its premises.

the fundamental architecture contains the end.

our main strengths and weaknesses are often intertwined.

ja
http://vispo.com