Chris Joseph's statement about Intimate Alice to find out more.
Writers work in many different ways. Thus, it is important to consider
individual vision in designing a work of new media literature.
Among the many alternatives to the use of Flash are those utilized by J.R. Carpenter
in
her statement about
Entre Ville. Steve Ersinghaus writes about his use of Eastgate's Storyspace
in
his statement on The Life of Geronimo Sandoval.
Mark Marino's use of the adaptive hypertext system Literatronica,
created by Juan B. Guiterrez, is presented in
his statement on a show of hands,
and Joel Weishaus explains how he used Dreamweaver and Photoshop in
his words about The Way North.
March 14, 2010
365 instances of the letter "A"
Produced by Regina Pinto, AlphaAlpha Uses Graphics, Animation,
and Sound to Create an Effective Work of Collaborative Visual Poetry
This month begins with South American artist Regina Pinto's
AlphaAlpha,
for which she uses a variety of graphic art, animation, video, website design,
and sound software applications to create a dynamic work of visual poetry that
-- in this screen-viewed medium where text can be encountered in a visual
manner -- focuses attention on the representation of the first letter of the
alphabet, resulting in a work of collaborative art that, with its evocative
connotations of "first letter", also imagines and illustrates how words and
text can be represented on the Internet.
The AlphaAlpha project is a classic collaborative work in that participants
were invited to create within the context of an interesting idea, and the producer
incorporated their work in a framework that in this case includes texts and visual
implementations of the letter "A". The project both alludes to the vibrant
South American tradition of visual poetry and calls attention to how text can be
represented on the World wide Web. Participants were from all over the world
including Brazil, USA, Canada, Chile, France, UK, Argentina, Finland, Germany,
Croatia, Serbia, Uruguay, Spain, and Mexico.
January, 2010
Links to Resources and Applications:
Authoring Software Highlights Software Applications and
the Writers and Artists Who Use Them
To make the section of this resource that provides links
to Authoring Software and other resources in the field
more useable, a new page has been created for
Authoring
Software Links and will be continued to be updated during
this first month of the New Year.
December, 2009
Interview with Sonya Rapoport:
The Process of Creation of New Media Art and Literature
New media art projects, whether they are art, literature, or performance,
may or may not follow a traditional software management path from
idea to completion.
The field of new media includes practitioners from very different backgrounds.
Some may approach their work as project managers. Others may begin their
work as software engineers who create systems that are conducive to
computer-mediated art, literature, music or dance. Others may begin their
work with an artistic concept and then, either by using a pre-existing
application or by creating their own authoring software, search for a
system to implement their work. Others just plunge in, in itself an
acceptable approach in the arts. Some combine all of these approaches
or alternate them in a continual process of exploration in this new field.
In addition to statements by writers about how they have created their work,
the Authoring Software project will look at the creation of new media art as
a whole process. To this end, theproject will be interviewing software creators,
new media writers, and artists from different disciplines.
This month Authoring Software features an interview with new media artist
Sonya Rapoport, a visual artist and interactive art
pioneer who creates
audience participatory interactive installations, as well as web works and
artists books. Although Sonya's work can be approached in many ways,
in this interview, the focus is on her process which:
- begins with the creation of a work of visual art in her studio,
- seeks interactive audience input in gallery and/or invited situations
- incorporates the input into the work
- exhibits the new work
- and sometimes continues the process
As I note in my first question to Sonya:
The idea of the audience contributing to the content of the work
has become a central strategy in the creation of net art and
participatory collaborative texts. You were one of the first people
to use participatory interaction in your work, and the ideas you used
are now pervasive in new media art practice. Communication
projects, such as the Electronic Cafe, the Send/Receive
project, Roy Ascott's work, Robert Adrian's The World in 24
Hours and Hank Bull's diffuse organic projects, were often based
on back and forth communication and/or collaboration/shared creation
by artists. These works are important.
But your work is different in that it presented the audience with
an individual artist-created work of art to respond to and then
creatively incorporated the audience responses into the work. Other
than projects, such as The Community Memory which was not
intended as an artwork, and perhaps some of Steve Wilson's early
work, to my knowledge your work is very seminal in this field.
Visit the Interview with Sonya Rapoport
to find out more.
Computers and Writing 2009
Greetings to participants in at the Computers and Writing 2009
Online Sessions who visited this Blog. More commentary from new media
writers will be posted in the coming months, and you are invited to continue
visiting Authoring Software.
I have very much enjoyed participating in this online conference.
Thanks to Carl Whithaus and UC Davis for providing the opportunity to explore
new online session software and to meet people working in the field of computers
and writing!
Judy Malloy
