Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

Join us on Saturday, May 24th at 7:30 pm at the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, BC, to launch Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams a new work of electronic literature by Montreal-based fiction writer and web artist J.R. Carpenter.

Many books were harmed in the making of this electronic literature project. Over the past […]

In his introductory essay to TCR 2-50, guest editor Andrew Klobucar writes: “Given the arguments presented throughout this issue, the reader will no doubt agree that new information technologies, along with the variety of formats they inspire, have indeed prompted a “crisis” in writing, in the sense that such developments must invoke a formative and […]

Nancy Paterson is a Toronto-based electronic media artist working primarily in the field of interactive installations. Currently an Associate Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design she is also Facilities Coordinator at Charles Street Video, an artists media access centre in Toronto. Patterson has developed a course, “Creativity and New Media,” in which […]

As TCR 2-50 guest editor Andrew Klobucar writes in his essay Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies: a more critical approach to current artistic interests in networks and digital media appears in Gordon Winiemko’s account of New Media installation art, where he shows how a clearly fetishised response to information networks can result in […]

As TCR 2-50 guest editor Andrew Klobucar notes in his essay Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies, some of the recent developments in the visual structure and appearance of writing on screen derive, as we see in Jim Andrews’ piece, from new networking technologies. The “network,” for Andrews, functions not just as a structure […]

In his introductory essay to the “Artifice & Intelligence” issue of The Capilano Review, guest editor Andrew Klobucar reflects upon ” several concerns circulating within the literary arts with respect to recent advances in electronic media formats.” If, as Klobucar argues, “that new information technologies, along with the variety of formats they inspire, have […]

Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capliano Review is exploration of the formal and functional properties of RSS. Author J. R. Carpenter uses blogging, tagging and other Web 2.0 tools to mark-up and interlink the twelve essays of TCR 2-50 and to insert additional meta-layers of commentary in order to play with, […]

TCR 2-50 contributor Laura U. Marks’s essay Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector follows important continuities in what at first may appear as disparate traditions in art history: classical Islamic art, European modernism and contemporary new media. Comparing several tendencies shared by […]

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 […]

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 […]