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

[Vivek Narayanan]

Dear Turbulence, Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippet,

It took me a while to get to it, given that connectivity is still not 
something we can take for granted here in India, but I just had a look 
at your magnificent Grafik Dynamo below and thought, "This is money!" 
It's not often that net art machines actually induce pleasure (as 
opposed to a theoretical hmm) in me, and this one certainly works.

Just one question-- as I understand it, the work pulls images from blogs 
and pairs them with text written or assembled by the authors? And if so, 
is it possible to have a version that also pulls its text from blogs?

Kudos,
Vivek

Jo-Anne Green wrote:

> 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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