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

Babelswarm — by Justin Clemens (Writer), Christopher Dodds (Artist/Designer), and Adam Nash (Musician/3-D Real-Time Artist) :: Opened April 11, 2008 :: Lismore Regional Gallery, 131 Molesworth Street, Lismore NSW 2480 + Second Life.

Socrates: What a lucky morning this is turning out to be! I was looking for one virtue and have found a whole swarm of them. — Plato, Meno

In September 2007, the Australia Council for the Arts announced the recipients of its $20,000 artists residency in the 3-D online virtual world of Second Life. Dodds, Nash, and Clemens were awarded the grant to develop an inter-disciplinary artwork which explores the possibilities of literary, music / sound art and real-time 3-D arts practices within the virtual world. Continue reading

Cantata Park 1 (2006) [Teleport to Mashup Park, Marni (206, 35, 23)] — by Metamatic (Christopher Dodds and Adam Nash) — is an interactive, spatialised sound sculpture built in the virtual world Second Life. The sculpture is made from 256 individual nodes in a 16 x 16 grid. Each node is embedded with a single word, triggered by a participant’s movement through the work. Each participant creates a random narrative, assembled on-the-fly, and in real-time.

Cantata Park explores the notion of a “cut-up narrative”. By disassembling and reassembling a passage of text, the participant is free to extract unseen meaning from an existing text. Continue reading

Netacronyms by Marisa Olson (2007).

RL Control of SL objects and avatars

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State of the Union by Brad Borevitz - Within an hour after the text of the speech is released, President George W. Bush’s final State of the Union address will be analyzed and presented. The address is scheduled to be delivered to Congress and the American people by the President on January 28th.

State of the Union provides searchable access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to the present. Using visualization software, the site allows a user to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time, and to link to information on the historical context. Continue reading

Chat by Aram Bartholl - The Chat project is a mobile performance installation that can be played by two people at a time. Just like in World of Warcraft or Second Life, the two participants communicate with each other in the form of brief text messages input via keyboard. Immediately after they’ve been entered, the written communiqués appear in comic-strip-like dialogue balloons projected above the speaker’s head. Continue reading

Turbulence Spotlight: Tulsita by the Wa-KOW! Collective [Needs Flash plugin] - The Wa-KOW! Collective was founded on the idea that the distinctions between artistic media are problematic and productive rather than essential. Our primary goal has been to find ways to blur those boundaries. The group–made up of poets, musicians, and photographers–works in and around the borders between text, sound, and image, exploring the relations between the three media and the nature of each type of media. Continue reading

Urban Echo is an ongoing series of interactive sound and video installations. The project has appeared in many forms ranging from intimate outdoor video sculpture to large interactive public façades. Urban Echo aims to collect and creatively represent the thoughts and imaginings of city-dwellers. In each installation, participants send their thoughts and questions via SMS and voicemail. The responses are the then projected and added to a dynamic spatialized audio composition. Urban Echo was originally conceived as a collaboration between Christopher Baker, Laura Baker and J. Anthony Allen. Continue reading

The Brown University Computing in the Humanities Users’ Group and CIS present The Importance of “Not-Reading” by Martin Mueller :: December 12, 2007; 4 pm :: Conference Room 200-201, Brown University, 169 Angell St., Providence.

In this talk Martin Mueller will present MONK (Metadata Create New Knowledge), a large-scale data mining and visualization project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Following on WordHoard, an application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged texts, MONK is a project to create something like a “cultural genome” of close to a billion words of written English from Caxton’s Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1474) to Virginia Woolf’s fixing of December 1910 as the beginning of the modern world. Continue reading