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: How a fake is manipulating the art scene


Sounds like the basis for an enlightening story about art. Kafka and Hess
come to mind. With a touch of Jane Austen.

It is of course outrageous that you should have had to suffer the museums of
Paris rather than set up your own art show. Simply outrageous!

And that the locale offered was a disgusting hole in the ground! Keep in
mind, though, that interesting things do occassionally emerge from holes in
the ground, as we saw in Tikrit. The Dead Sea Scrolls also came from a hole
in the ground and the finders used many of the scrolls for kindling and who
knows what else. You just never know what's going to come out of a hole in
the ground. There is as much chance of art coming out of it as from anywhere
else, though, it seems. But digital art? Admittedly it would have to be
quite the hole.

Funny what's in a name, isn't it. Paris Bienniale. Java Museum. Ah,
authenticity! Poetaster beware! What is real for each one is what we are
able to share in, and what changes us, the elusive beauty of insight,
whether it comes from a hole, on high, or between the eyes.

ja

"Because art attracts pretenders." K. Armstrong

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Re: Test confirms 'sadhu' abstained food, water for 66 years


There's a beautiful story by Franz Kafka called "A Hunger Artist". I see
it's online at http://www.lundwood.u-net.com/ahunga.htm

ja

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Windows for Shockwave 4.0 launched


Windows for Shockwave (WFS) 4.0 is launched at http://vispo.com/wfs4

This is a tool I wrote for Director developers.

What does it have to do with art?

Well, you got yer movies, and you got yer apps. WFS is a tool for creating
works that synthesize the movie and the app paradigms, the timeline and the
flowchart paradigms.

I have made it very easy to use, also. Additionally, the first two tutorials
(freely downloadable) each involve about a half-hour of audio and simulation
within the Director authoring environment; they introduce you to how to use
WFS in a painless way. No Lingo knowledge is required to use WFS. Though if
you know Lingo, you can really go to town: WFS includes an API for Lingo
programmers that is quite extensive.

Hope you like it.

ja
http://vispo.com

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Re: Practical Handbook for beginners-Kosuth saving young girl


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Ehehe. Very cool.

ja

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Re: Re: Thom Yorke / Howard Zinn


I'll bet you'd like really strong conceptual art, Curt. If you get a chance,
pick up Joseph Kosuth's book 'Art After Philosophy and After'. It's a pretty
exciting read. He's a strong writer and thinker about art. Whether you agree
with him or not is something else. He's sufficiently brainy, passionate,
knowlegeable and articulate that the writing is exciting.

Which would seem to be crucial to successful conceptual art. But that's part
of what is missing from so much of the contemporary type, particularly of
the digital variety. Too often calling it 'conceptual art' is a way of
justifying posturing vacuity, pompous moralizing, and technical
incompetence.

There's a terrific tradition, though, in your country of 'poetry of ideas',
say, or 'art of ideas' involving characters like Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman,
Melville, Wallace Stevens, etc, and I admire it deeply. Conceptual art isn't
unrelated to that sort of very strong brainy passion, at its best.

ja
http://vispo.com