[Reader-list] [Announcements] Turbulence Commission: "Grafik Dynamo" by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett

[Jo-Anne Green]

February 15, 2005
Turbulence Commission: "Grafik Dynamo" by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett
http://turbulence.org/works/dynamo/index.html

"Grafik Dynamo" is a net art work that loads live images from blogs and 
news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is 
currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by 
narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought 
bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic 
web content opens up the genre in a new way: together, the images and 
narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and 
expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each 
other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. The 
work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a 
new hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal 
parameter that comprises its structure.

"Grafik Dynamo" is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, 
Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible 
with funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

BIOGRAPHIES

KATE ARMSTRONG is a new media artist and writer who has lived and worked 
in Canada, France, Japan, Scotland, and the United States. Her work 
focuses on the creation of experimental narrative forms, particularly 
works in which poetics are inserted within the functional framework of 
computer programs, and performative pieces in which computer 
functionality is merged with physical space. Armstrong has worked with a 
variety of forms including short films, theatre, essays, net art, 
performative network events, psychogeography and installation. Her work 
has been exhibited internationally. She has written for P.S 1/MoMA, the 
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, TrAce, Year Zero One, and The 
Thing, as well as for catalogue publications. Armstrong's first book, 
"Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture," was published in 2002.

MICHAEL TIPPETT has a decade of experience creating and managing 
technology businesses. With expertise in design, namespace, distributed 
and mobile media, and wireless technology, Tippett's media background is 
in pioneering new forms of networked content. His newest venture, 
NowPublic.com, uses emerging technologies like camera phones, digital 
cameras, blogging tools and RSS standards to change the way news is 
created and distributed. It can be thought of as "reality news" - 
providing a hub for citizen reporting and for viewing world events 
though the prism of an alternate, distributed, real time media.

For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org

-- 
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog and Conference: http://turbulence.org/blog
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