M is for Nottingham?, an online collaborative writing project and live drama from trAce Incubation 2 (and sponsored partially by ELO) has been selected for permanent online display by the Museums of Justice, Nottingham, UK. A special archive site has been designed for the public.
This work was produced and created by M.D. Coverley and features the participation of many ELO members including Helen Whitehead, Rita Raley, and Talan Memmott.
The latest TIR Web contains a great diversity of work, including a preview of its featured artist’s, Stephanie Strickland, new poem V (Penguin 2002), featuring V’s Web section, V: VNIVERSE, an interview with Strickland by Jaishree K. Odin, and a critical essay by Odin on “Image and Text: The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot.” Also included are works by Eloy Fernández Porta, William Gillespie, Mark Marino, Aida Nasrallah, Peter Walpole, and Margaret Gibson.
The “Rethinking the Visual: New Technologies in the Context of Society and Culture” conference, to be held September 13-15, 2002, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will open with an Internet art forum and online exhibition at the Department of Fine Arts. The exhibition, entitled “Mapping Transitions”, will be co-curated by CU-Boulder digital art professor Mark Amerika and Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The exhibition consists of 3 newly commissioned pieces from Internet artists whose work was selected for the Whitney Biennial 2002. The artists participating in this event are Mary Flanagan, Lisa Jevbratt, and John Klima. The exhibition will open on September 4, 2002, and Ms. Paul and all of the artists will demonstrate their work to the public on the opening night of the conference in Boulder.
Speakers include Joanna Drucker, W.J.T. Mitchell, Rod Coover, Faye Ginsberg, and Steve Jones.
Slope, the online journal devoted to poetry being written around the world, announces its first issue of hyperfiction. Submissions are currently being accepted.
[Link updated April 2005]
trAce was shortlisted as a New Statesman New Media Award winner in the category of Online Communities. From the cateogory description: “This award is for those organisations that utilise new forms of media to create a space where people can connect with others, providing support, information and advice for each other across the world.”
Contains new media art and hyperfiction by Jason Nelson, Scott Rettberg, Alan Sondheim, Roberto Simanowski, Chris Ballange, Mez, George Quasha, Peter Howard, and Lawrence Upton.
[Link updated April 2005]
The self-titled “netwurker” Mez curates trAce’s online galllery for Incubation 2002 (July 15-17). About the artists selected for inclusion, Mez writes: “These _artists_ [or net/code.workers] revel in the fabric of connection modes and core elements that represent the actualities of the net in all its functional glory. The code/net.workers selected for inclusion here engage in production of [artistic] output that employs and mirrors the very blueprinted mechanisms of the net itself.”
With 300+ illustrations and links to projects and artworks discussed in the book, as well as an interesting interface, the website for Manovich’s The Language of New Media (2001) is itself something to explore.
The Rockfeller Foundation approved an ELO grant request to provide financial support to the Directory expansion project. The grant will help the ELO expand the Electronic Literature Directory, an online directory of new media art and literature. Work on updating and expanding the Directory has already begun. The Directory can be accessed from the ELO homepage or by clicking the link.
Judd Morriseyy and Lori Talley’s anticipated hypertext work is now available at Eastgate.com.