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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Re: Re:


> I hate that natural stuff, hate it. why not make a poem about the
> sewers of Newark?

Fill yr boots.

Maybe my description of the piece was lame, but it's a good piece. Check it out: http://hahakid.net/forallseasons/forallseasons.html

ja

DISCUSSION

"For All Seasons" by Andreas Muller


ANDREAS MULLER (LONDON)
http://hahakid.net/forallseasons/forallseasons.html

"For All Seasons" is an unusual piece of digital poetry. It is 3D,
programmed in C++, available for Windows and Mac, quite deluxe in its
interface (see the Readme for details) and very responsive. Also, the
environments are well-realized both in several literary senses and as
literary machines. "For All Seasons" consists of four
movements/worlds/cantos/whatever--one for each season.

The poems are linked in various ways. They all are concerned with memories
of youth. With memories of dandelions and fishing with a little net (as for
butterflies), with the whirlwinds of autumn and snow in trees in winter.
Very much poems of innocence and wonder. Poems of innocence and wonder can
be very tiresome indeed--for their lack, really, of either. The digital
aspects of these poems, however, are exceptionally strong in their
wonderment, and somewhat brilliantly realized in contrast with the page that
opens each poem.

"Spring", like the rest, opens with a brief text. The white page/black type
then transforms into a 3D space and textual dandelions begin to grow from
the page. Letters that form words are attached to stalks like dandelion
parachute seeds are attached to stems. You use the left and right mouse
buttons and the scroll wheel to move through the 3D world and blow the
lettristic seeds through the 'air'. It is wonderful to move into this space
and look up at them as trees.

"Summer" opens with a text of fishing with a net as a child. When you then
click the text, the words are transformed in such a way that they behave
very like fishes in their swimming. Again, you use the mouse buttons and
wheel to swim through the schools of wordly fishes. The behaviors, once
again, are eloquently realized. That is an odd word in this context,
'eloquently', but I think it is apt. Muller's work is, in part, expressive
computation. He is a very fine programmer and is never so happy as when he
can create art with it.

"Fall"'s opening text is tranformed into the sort of whirlwind we see in the
fall that sweeps fallen leaves into the air. This is a gentle whirlwind,
gentle vortex, gentle whirlwind.

"For All Seasons" is exceptionally expressive in highly unusual ways. In
many ways it is also quite 'concrete' in its mimeticism. Some see the
mimeticism of much concrete as a bit of a failure of imagination. Others
point out the fundamental thrust of concrete, its universalist committment
to understandable communication across language and educational barriers and
say that the mimeticism of concrete is not a failure of the imagination but
reflects a committment to grounded and universal communication. Certainly
the texts of "For All Seasons" can communicate before they are understood.

Altogether, I would have to say it's a remarkable piece of work in both its
affective dimensions and as a literary machine.

ja
http://vispo.com/misc/links.htm

DISCUSSION

vague


everybody wants it no one knows what it is.

ja

DISCUSSION

Re: ARTIST in RESIDENCE [AiR] 2006 -- OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


Our focus for this open call is on open source interactive installation
art, in which the following occurs:

a.. interaction between tools and/or software
b.. interaction between tools and artwork
c.. interaction between audience and artwork
Interaction between audience and artwork I understand. But what do the
other two mean?

ja

http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Palestinian/Israeli Shared History project


Vispo.com hosts PRIME, the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East run
by Dan Bar-On, an Israeli, and Sammi Adwan, a Palestinian.

Here are a couple of recent articles from USA Today and the Toronto Globe
and Mail about one of PRIME's projects:

Professors' history project opens new chapter for Israeli, Palestinian
students
By Martin Patience, USA TODAY
http://vispo.com/PRIME/patience.htm

Once upon a time . . . in Israel and Palestine
by Shira Herzog, Toronto Globe and Mail
http://vispo.com/PRIME/herzog.htm

ja
http://vispo.com