TBT [Time Based Text]: an experiment(al) (in) writing - Interview with Jaromil by Annet Dekker: Time Based Text can be considered software art, but above all it is a new form of digital poetics. Time Based Text offers a creative, experimental, joyful and critical way of handling digital text by implementing interactivity, new software and network communications. Time Based Text is a type-performance that illustrates feelings.

The emphasis of the software is on the process of writing / typing. TBT is a tool for time-based recording and playback of the process of typing a message, with the accuracy of milliseconds. The basic interface for typing records all typing and plays it back exactly the way the text was typed the first time, including all hesitations and misspellings. Continue reading

This is just a small section from a long and very interesting interview with the artist. I encourage you to read the whole interview.

“… What are the challenges of curating and exhibiting works of new media art today?

I think that there is presently a very exciting turn happening in new media, with respect to both the art world and the context of “traditional media.” It used to be very important to carve out a separate space in which to show, discuss, and teach new media. Nowadays these spaces are sometimes seen as ghettos, but at the time, they were safe havens championing under-recognized forms. Things are more co-mingled now. Not everyone will agree with me about this, but I think it’s great that some people no longer even know new media when they see it. Continue reading

The Iowa Review-Web [TIR-W] Volume 9 no. 1: Multi-Modal Coding: Jason Nelson, Donna Leishman, and Electronic Writing :: Guest edited by Stephanie Strickland and Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink.

“Literary hypertext and hypermedia have been made for 15 years with a wide variety of development systems. When the ELO curated its first Electronic Literature Collection in 2006, in an open call for works, the 60 selected were made in some 10 different development systems, from HTML to VRML. Who is in this game, and how do we draw in new readers and players? Our featured artists answer this question in our interviews. Continue reading

Marie Sester Interview: Access, Transparency and Visibility in “Exposure” by Eduardo Navas - Marie Sester is an artist born in France, currently living in Los Angeles. She was trained as an architect, but soon after receiving her degree realized that her real interest was in understanding the role of architecture as discourse in culture and politics. She found art an ideal space to develop her interdisciplinary projects. Sester sees her art practice as an ongoing process partly defined by a person’s desire to visualize certain things, while making others invisible. Throughout the 1990s, Sester explored how surveillance redefined our understanding of reality. In the following interview Marie Sester generously shares the story behind her three-channel installation, “Exposure,” explaining how her role as an artist allowed her access to information which she could not obtain today due to the security measures put in place after 9/11. Continue reading

[Image: Still from “Amongst Fables and Men” Tonight artist Eddo Stern will host “QQ More”, a screening he curated of offbeat fan-made machinima dealing with real-life issues such as drugs, pornography, and death at Brooklyn’s Light Industry. The show begins at 8pm and will be followed by a discussion between Stern and Alexander Galloway. I conducted an email interview with Stern about his interest in the phenomenon and its relevance to his own art practice. - Ceci Moss

In gaming parlance, what does “QQ More” mean? How does this relate to the concept behind your program “QQ More”? Continue reading

“Aether Architecture is a design and architecture studio based in Budapest, Hungary, that is known at an international level for its innovative and conceptual approach to media architecture … In projects such as “Ping Genius Loci“ or “Wifi Camera”, the digital is used as a real architectonic instrument, with the idea of promoting a structural approach that allows the visualization of mediation spaces, between the real and the virtual, between the local and the global in terms of connection between single individuals. For Adam the urban and the virtual space represent a single unity in constant relation, an expanded environment that the architect has to necessarily confront.” Continue reading Aether Architecture: Real Spaces, Virtual Spaces by Marco Mancuso (English translation by Caterina Sartori), DigiMag.

Upgrade! Tel Aviv - Jerusalem: Watchmen: Screening of the video, meeting and talk with Jack Faber :: April 2, 2008; 8 pm :: Daila, Shlomzion Hamalka 4, Jerusalem.

Model of Influence by Tal Ben Zvi / Jack Faber: Tal Ben Zvi: from the various constructions of meaning that artworks can create to influence other structures of society, the recent and relevant work to the Model of Influence investigation is to my opinion ‘Watchmen’ - an ongoing 3 years project ranging from guerrilla filmmaking, through gallery installations, to an innovating international precedent court verdict in the field of art, human rights and the freedom of expression. Continue reading

“It is always a special experience to talk to Otto Rössler, a very sweet and deep man, whose kindness comes from outer dimensions. This conversation, a noisy low tech experience, recorded on the fly from the laptop’s mic, happened during Transmediale08 at HKW, few hours after Otto’s key-note presentation. It is about black-holes, conspiracy in science, finding new paths, basting popular beliefs, fighting with heaven…” - Eleonora Oreggia

“The performance-, theatre- and radio-art group LIGNA (formed 1997) consists of the media theorists and radio artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners and Torsten Michaelsen, who work in the FSK (Free Broadcaster Combine), a non-commercial, local radio in Hamburg. LIGNA repeatedly design experimental situations which aim for the transgression of the conventional application of radio technology and the re-actualisation of its inherent, but forgotten or ignored potentials.The action Radioballet took place in the main station of Hamburg and one year later in Leipzig. Both spaces had been recently privatised and subject to control by surveillance cameras and security guards. Continue reading

“[…] Since March 1 and for a year, artist Jay Newt (aka: Jay Van Buren) of the Real Life art gallery Jack the Pelican Presents is going to navigate the virtual world of Second Life and hobnob with les pixelated artistes as part of his conceptual art project Brooklyn is Watching.

Brooklyn is Watching is a project sponsored by Popcha, a New York based media technology company, and taking place simultaneously at the art gallery Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn, New York and in Second Life. A performance space and presentation / sandbox in Second Life have been set up for this. Continue reading