Playing For Change

I have to admit...I love "Playing For Change," both the project and the music. I also get jazzed that the music comes together through the technology. These musicians would never have connected without it.

Playing Together

Here's a creative and fun music video that plays on how we connect through that little camera on our box.

Art on the Internet

The Internet provides a creative ground for bringing visual art, words, sound and interactivity together and a variety of artists have been exploring it since the beginning. Being both an artist and a web designer, I continue to be inspired by the variety of examples of such play.

Here are a few links. This is just a small sampling. If you come across other interesting sites...let me know....

Visualizing Poetry and Text

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Hypertext journal by John Chris Jones http://www.ellipsis.com/index.cgi
Hypertext Poetry or "cyber poetry" has been around for quite awhile on the net. It takes a variety of forms but it all uses the idea of hyper-linking text and images to related text and images offering us a non-linear pathway through the piece. Another example can be seen here: That Night by Steve Ersinghaus

Inflat-o-scape
http://www.inflatoscape.com
I had to spend some time with this piece to really appreciate its nuanced slant on using technology to critique technology. Its another form of hyper-linking with a little more interactivity.

Christina Manning, Sky
http://www.bornmagazine.com/projects/sky/
"Sky" is more of a video than an online interactive piece but its a good example of how the image begins to be part of the words and in effect the poetry. Born Magazine is an online video/animation archive from a variety of artists. Its worth a look http://www.bornmagazine.com/




Judy Malloy, Where Every Luminous Landscape
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/
Judy Malloy has been exploring hypertext poetry for a long time and has several interesting projects.

David Knoebel
http://home.ptd.net/~clkpoet/walkdont/
This is a simple exploration of words as images in space.



Dreaming in Hypertext
http://cymem.wordpress.com/2008/




Jenny Holzer on Twitter
http://twitter.com/jennyholzer

Origami
http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/




How They Sleep
http://www.bornmagazine.org/




Another Evening Reminiscing
http://www.bornmagazine.org/




Fallow
http://www.bornmagazine.org/

Telling Stories

Telling Stories
Tomas Nilsson, Slagsmålsklubben (Little Red Ridinghood)
http://vimeo.com/3514904
I admit, I have watched this over and over as I love how Nilsson shows how an old story can be told "fresh." Some of what we are about as artists is making the "old" new again and being reminded why we tell ourselves stories to begin with.



Jason Nelson, Panhandle
http://www.heliozoa.com/panhandle.html
This story about a storm on the Panhandle is taken from a random letter found in a used book. Nelson uses a variety of methods to not just tell the event but to give sense of it. With it comes the memory, confusion and connected-ness that comes when profound moments are told over time.

Taking Journeys

Taking Journeys
Embody, Labyrinth (2001)
http://www.rejesus.co.uk/site/




Four Rooms
http://www.rejesus.co.uk/images/swf/




Lighting Candles, Saying Prayers
http://www.rejesus.co.uk/site/

Collaborating Together

Creating Together
An Exquisite Corpse
http://anexquisitecorpse.net/crypt/




Gridcosm
from 2009 going back
http://www.sito.org/synergy/gridcosm/


from 1997 coming forward
http://www.sito.org/synergy/gridcosm/


Communimage
http://www.communimage.ch/




You and We (a text/image collaboration)
http://www.bornmagazine.org/youandwe/