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

trust is there as long as only


only as long as there is trust

DISCUSSION

Delphi


Is anyone on this list using http://www.borland.com/delphi ?

The 'product tour' is kina inerestin.

I used it way back in version 1 and 2 (now at 7), but I haven't used it for a long time and it
is vastly different than it was.

Of course, it is mainly for database driven ecommerce net applications. So I would doubt that it
would have the multimedia capabilities of Director or Flash.

Anyone know how it is concerning multimedia?

Is there a Delphi plugin or is it all ActiveX or what?

That UML dev scheme looks nice. Integrating documentation and dev in Flash and Director just
isn't there yet, which is almost necessary for bigger dev projects.

Anyone care to hazard a comment on the relevance or non-relevance of such a tool to net.art?

ja

DISCUSSION

Paul Green's 'The Gestalt Bunker' and 'Directions to the Dead End' (audio writing from 1971)


Check out "The Gestalt Bunker" and "Directions to the Dead End" at
http://www.culturecourt.com/Audio/PG/PGaudio.htm .

Particularly "The Gestalt Bunker". This is audio work from 1971 by Britain's Paul Green. It's
some of the best audio writing you'll encounter and remains relevant after all this time,
particularly to artists working with electronic technology. It also evokes an atmosphere of
conflict that is all too familiar at the moment.

It was one of the DNA audio works Lawrence Russell published.

About DNA:

"DNA, 1971. Writing plays to be performed in darkness evolved quickly into just taping them,
especially the monologue. My idea for a free tape exchange came, in part, from Dana Atchley, an
American conceptual artist who asked me to contribute a page to his Space Atlas, after he heard
my taped theatre piece Black Movie in 1970 during a lunch-time venue at UVic. Space Atlas was a
random compendium of graphics, poetry, musings, and utter crap that a hundred various artists
were invited to do something for. You gave Dana two copies of whatever page you wrote, drew or
puked on, and got two copies of the Space Atlas back [a looseleaf binder]. Keep one, give one
away... shuffle the contents... rip out the ones you didn't like. That piece of coarse-grain
sandpaper... the Trojan glued to a piece of cardboard. Perfect. The complete anti-institutional
statement, where formalism and aesthetic judgement were discarded in favour of randomness and
simplicity.

The content didn't interest me greatly even though as a dramatist and short fiction writer I was
attracted to some form of random event in narrative. It was the method of distribution that
showed a way to beat the slavery of institutional recognition, a sort of art chain letter or
pyramid. If the xerox copier could make one a publisher, what could the tape recorder do?

Far as I know, DNA was the first audio magazine of this sort anywhere. Send in a cassette or
reel, get back some DNA. A lot of these tapes were played on Listener-Subscription fm stations
across the US and Canada, and for a while DNA was a counter-culture success, copied and played
in music schools, theatres, galleries... and those orbiting attics were people liked to listen.
[LR, '03]"
from http://www.culturecourt.com/Audio/DNA/classics.htm

ja

DISCUSSION

McLuhan Reconsidered


http://vispo.com/writings/essays/mcluhana.htm
McLuhan Reconsidered

This is an essay I wrote in 94. It's one of the first things I put up on my Web site in 95. I
worked on it for a long time.

It remains one of the most popular pages on my site and is read in a few courses in a few
countries. The courses are either on McLuhan or the Internet, or communications theory, or
Director, or Internet sociology, or visual language...it is interesting the range of courses
this essay appeals to.

It discusses some of McLuhan's main ideas.

It's broken into two files because at the time I made it in 95, my html editor would not handle
files larger than 32 kb.

ja

PS: There's an earlier piece I wrote called 'Reading McLuhan' (1988) at
http://vispo.com/writings/SeveralNumbersThroughtheLyric/ReadingMcLuhan.pdf

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: [thingist] Rub Linda the right way and she might show you wonderland


Last night I chanced upon "American Psycho" on TV, which I hadn't seen. And channel surfed
between that and CNN on the war. The attractive female announcer on CNN was polite,
professional, and confidently smiling as she inquired into the number of American casualties in
the most recent 'friendly fire' incident, which has also, apparently, left at least a dozen
Iraqi civilians dead.

I thought of Joseph's piece and the debate here as to its morality. And the articles I read
earlier in the evening by Robert Fisk, among others, describing the slaughter of more civilians
in Iraq.

ja