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

[Jo-Anne Green]

  Dear Vivek,

Thanks for sharing your enthusiastic response with us. I'm copying Kate 
and Michael so that they can respond to you directly.

Best,
Jo

Vivek Narayanan wrote:

> 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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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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