Category: New E-Lit

The latest edition of the hypermedia journal Beehive includes work by Bill Marsh, Joseph Nechvatal, Millie Niss, Jon Fried, Juliet Ann Martin, Miranda F. Mellis, Marianne Shaneen, and Alan Sondheim.

“Fundamental Patterns- Peripheral Basics” is a new online show that includes the solo presentation of Calin Man, who received the “JavaArtist of the Year Award.” “Actual Positions of Italian Netart” features 26 artists. “Focus:x? – {self}_representation” includes “Mirror at the Bottom – artists portraiting themselves” with work by Coco Gordon (New York), Melissa Ulto (New York), Valerie Rose (Tampa,USA).

Editor Claire Dinsmore released the new version of the journal of the arts & new media, Cauldron & Net. The current issue features author Kathleen Fraser and book artist Inge Bruggeman. Alongside of these features is a choice selection poetry, essays, fiction, visual art, hypermedia work and sound.

About Time by Rob Swigart is an interactive multimedia novella in which two tales unfold 40,000 years apart with richly thought-provoking and entertaining results. And The Dancing Rhinoceri of Bangladesh by Millie Niss. A combinatorial excursion into the textual possibilities of rhinoceri and other matters.

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.

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.
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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.”

Judd Morriseyy and Lori Talley’s anticipated hypertext work is now available at Eastgate.com.

The journal of new media and experimental writing and art published at the University of Iowa contains: the new work “Dervish Flowers,” a shockwave work by French painter Nicolas Clauss and composer Jean-Jaques Berge, and interview with Shelley Jackson by Rita Raley, an interview with William Poundstone by Brian Kim Stefans, poems by Marjorie Stelmach, and a talk about the art of translation by Eliot Weinberger.

Spineless Books releases a unique new work by Nick Montfort and William Gillespie, 2002: A Palindrome Story. Click on our link and log in with a username of “Bob” and a password of “Babs” for a sneak preview. [Update: Login is not required.]
[Updated April 2005]