Jim Andrews
Since the beginning
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

Alexandre Gherban and the e-poetry conference in Paris


Here is a different sort of poetry: http://gherban.free.fr . This is
Alexandre Gherban's site (France). You don't have to understand French to
enjoy this work. I was particularly taken with the work "la colonie". This
is a collection of 14 Shockwave pieces. Some are interactive, some are not.
Most, if not all, are audio-visual. These works mostly proceed by symbols
moving around and interacting with each other. Sometimes you can affect that
motion and interaction. It gives a sense of the interaction of symbols in a
way different language to produce meaning.

Of "la colonie", Alexandre Gherban says:

'The colony

DISCUSSION

media arts curator position at the western front in vancouver - job posting


The Western Front Society in Vancouver, Canada is seeking applicants for the
position of

Director and Curator of Media Arts

Deadline for Applicants: February 28th
Start Date: April 1st - June 1st (Negotiable)

The Western Front is a multidisciplinary Artist Run Centre established
in 1973. It supports artists through five programs: Exhibitions, Front
Magazine, Media Arts, New Music, and Performance Art.

The Director and Curator of Media Arts curates and produces one of the
most significant Artist in Residence programs in Canada - supporting
8 to 9 projects a year, with associated artist talks, performances,
and other public events. The program supports local, national and
international artists working with electronics, installation,
networks, radio, sound, and video. The primary goal of the program is
to foster research and experimentation.

The Western Front is directed by a Management Team that includes the
curators of the five programs. These curators work as a collective to
manage the organization as a whole. This includes day-to-day
operations and meetings, annual planning (budgets, grants,
fundraising, etc.), and long term planning.
The Director and Curator of Media Arts is responsible for:

- Curating and producing the artist in residence program, talks,
events, projects and co-productions.
- Administering the day-to-day operational planning of the Media Arts
program.
- Developing and administering the annual budget of the Media Arts program.
- Developing and writing grant applications (operating and project).
- Overseeing the production studio operations and development.
- Overseeing the audio video archives.
- Working with the other curators (exhibitions, magazine, new music,
and performance art) as a co-director of the Western Front Society.

Applicants Professional Qualifications should include:

- Highly developed written and verbal communications skills.
- Understanding of contemporary issues in Media Arts and other disciplines.
- Knowledge of audio/video systems, new media and new technologies.
- Strong computer skills, including a working knowledge of current
word processing and Internet software.
- Ability to effectively delegate and supervise volunteers and
external contractors.
- Ability to plan and supervise, manage deadlines.
- Working knowledge of catalogue (publication) development and
production, printing requirements are an asset.

Working Conditions:

- Must be available for meetings and special events outside of office
hours (approximately 3 meetings/month, 4 special events/year and 2
strategic planning meetings/year.
- This is a full time position focused on a 10 month programming
season with 6 weeks of holiday in the summer, and 2 weeks of holidays
over the rest of the year.

Salary Range: $27,000 - $31,000 a year dependent on funding.

Further information is available on request. Please e-mail
<media@front.bc.ca>.

The Western Front Society
303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5T 1S1
http://www.front.bc.ca

DISCUSSION

Multimediality, Intermediality, and Medially Complex Digital Poetry


Here's a paper ( http://www.rilune.org/mono5/brillenburg.pdf ) by Kiene
Brillenburg Wurth from Utrecht University called "Multimediality,
Intermediality, and Medially Complex Digital Poetry" that mentions, among
others, works by Jason Nelson, Aya Karpinska, and myself.

I'm not sure why she'd mention my work, because I have it on authority from
the Canada Council's Intermedia guy that my work is not intermedia.

ja
http://vispo.com

DISCUSSION

Cross Media Issue at UnlikelyStories.org now online


Received the below today from Jonathan Penton, editor of
unlikelystories.org. Unlikelystories.org is an online literary journal gone
astray, this issue.

ja

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Despite our best intentions, The Cross-Media Issue (guest edited by
Dan Waber) at http://unlikelystories.org has been released on
time, and includes:

syrupin w/9 letters & 5 spaces by mIEKAL aND & Lyx Ish
Song Shapes by Jim Andrews
Jim Andrews reviews Doom 3
Five Spoken Word Visual Poems by The Be Blank Consort
Green by Tantra Bensko
Two Excepts from The Cyborg Opera by Christian Bok
The Poet's View by Mairead Byrne
Offerings by Holly Crawford
Four Spoken Word Poems by Barbara DeCesare
Missing by Martha L. Deed
Two Songs by Dulabomber
Seven Visual Poems by Paul Dutton
Red by Amanda Earl
Alphaglyphs by endwar
I STALKED MARTHA STEWART! by Vernon Frazer
Cross-Media by Michael Harold
Three AVATAR Sketches by Sharon Harris
Bin Badder by Pete Hindle
In Germania, The Portuguese Did Sing by Geof Huth
Snowglyphs by Geof Huth
This Is Your Final Nitris by Adeena Karasick
Vedic Space, String Theory, and the Eternal Knot by Karl Kempton
Graffiti by Marton Koppany
As You by Donna Kuhn
Seven Visual Poems by Janan Leikazu
Two Visual Poems by Kaz Maslanka
Five Visual Poems by Sean McCluskey
Memory Tables by Gil McElroy
Twelve Digital Poems by Marko Niemi
I Don't Want to Go to Nashville by Rupert Owen and Snuffbox Films
Once More Around the Sun: a 2007 calendar by W. Bradford Paley
American Flact by Alan Semerdjian
Two Visual Poems by Spiel
In Other Words by Nico Vassilakis
Three Blogger-code Visual Poems by Ted Warnell
Five Visual Poems by Derek White

DISCUSSION

Re: as it ends


it's inerestin to note the diffs between the art world and the literary
world. i'm a writer, mainly. i see no lack of interest in literary journals
and on lists such as poetics out of buffalo in discussion of digital art.

but the literary arts are much less concerned with what can be sold. erma
bombeck sells very well. what sells is just not of primary interest to
writers or publishers of serious literary art because what sells well is too
often unremarkable as art. also, literary art is not collected and sold in
the same way that visual art is. you don't invest in interesting poets. you
chase them out of town.

also, the net continues to be of interest to writers. partly because it is
so text-oriented; partly because it's how writers correspond via email;
also, it's cheaper to publish on the net; and you reach an international
audience on the net; you are able to read a wider range of writers than you
find in the bookstores; you can publish as you want it to look; there's
exciting new territory still for literary form and literary form in
synthesis with other arts. i've seen a lot of interesting literary journals
spring up on the net over the last few years. they're getting more diverse
and numerous, not fading out. and they publish a mix of print-oriented
things and sometimes my sort of work.

the literary world is just starting to tune in to the net. blogs helped. you
don't have to learn html to do a blog. most writers would rather have their
fingernails ripped off than learn html. but also i think the pioneers have
helped a bit in creating the start of an innovative, semi-connected literary
web on the net.

are the media arts forever doomed to go where the money is like duplicitous
dilettantes in the next big thing? no. but sometimes it looks that way.

you're not the only one persevering in your folly, pall. that's what william
blake said, by the way. he said he was persevering in his folly.

i would no more return to the typewriter and print-oriented work than i
would return to snail mail correspondence. let the world catch up. and it
will.

nice to read the article on your work, pall.

ja
http://vispo.com