Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

“But what has propelled the recent surge in mapping – in gathering and arraying data in visual form – which can be observed in such a wide array of disciplines?”
Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, “Where/Abouts,” in Else/where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories [1]
A while ago I received an email from my friend Antonia […]

The network as a model of both cultural creation and organisation retains a growing influence outside the Web, as is evident in Sharla Sava’s review of recent work by THR 2-50’s featured artist, Antonia Hirsch. Hirsch’s inventive reconstructions of cartographic information exemplify the visually abstract nature of modern knowledge, discovering in it a wealth of […]

In his TCR 2-50 essay, Interstitial, David Jhave Johnston describes his Poetic Method:
I am a poet
Or at least I call myself one
Even though I rarely write in verse
I am a digital poet
In naming files and displaying those phrase-like named structures
Concurrently with the images or sounds or films that they name
Poems emerge
interstitial
interstice
(suture) (itch)
mathematied
mathematizing
mathematamachine
Kevin Magee / […]

David Jhave Johnston’s Interstitial work deals with the fundamentals of existence: life and death. Poets of all ages have played with the polemics of life and death and the afterlife, ever attempting to blur or redefine the fine line between what we little know of this life and the massive unknown that is death beyond. […]

View the work: Interstitial
Interstitial is a work which deals with the fundamentals of existence: life and death. It does not attempt to sentimentalize nor deconstruct these issues. Death is death; life is life.
Interstitial art, any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or media
Equanimity is […]

TCR 2-50 contributer David Jhave Johnston’s work Interstitial deals with the fundamentals of existence: life and death. It does not attempt to sentimentalize nor deconstruct these issues. Death is death; life is life. Johnston defines Interstitial art as any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of […]

“… learn to remember that we might have been otherwise, and might yet be …” Donna Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouseâ„¢
“Let us be transformed!” Artist Jean Tinguely
We are sometimes told that “the future is now,” or informed that there is nothing we can do about our information-driven economy and inevitable technological transformation. I am profoundly skeptical of […]

Artists not only comment on the communicative metaphors of genetics, they also comment on how genes can be combined to create life forms that are simultaneously innovative, fascinating, and disturbing. There is a long historical tradition of public fascination with freaks, chimeras, monsters and the grotesque. Artists tap into this history, from the literary tradition […]

This portion of Sandra Seekins’s essay on the The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art also bring us many promises and perils of translation, a thorny topic that recurs again and again in this issue of The Capilano Review. As Seekins tells us, Eduardo Kac’s controversial and ongoing work Genesis begins with the imperialist […]

“It is a new era and we need a new kind of art.” Eduardo Kac
Sandra Seekins writes in her essay, Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art, The language of DNA, the metaphors used to describe it, and how this information is “translated” is also a concern for biotech artists. Brazilian-born […]