Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

“We’ve always typed.” So writes the Toronto Research Group, a collective pseudonym for the Canadian poets bpNichol and Steve McCaffery, in their aspect as investigators into the mechanics of the more abstruse corners of experimental narrative. The description that they provide of their writing process is illuminating in a number of respects, so I’m going […]

There was a flipping sound every thirty seconds from the vcr as it was continually
trying to eject a videocassette which was not, in fact, in the machine. Through some glitch
of artificial unintelligence the malfunctioning vcr kept trying
to eject nothing for days. The tuner part of the unit was working fine
so it remained in place, trying […]

As someone who works with video, both as an artist and for hire, I [Gordon Winiemko] sometimes find myself documenting events, performances, art installations, and the like. Not long ago I provided my services for an artist renowned for confrontational, sometimes shocking performances. The whole thing was very multimedia. Well, now one would say “new […]

The < body > of net art can be conceptualized in many ways. In this essay Jim Andrews considers it as a kind of architecture.
But, first, let’s note that while the term “net art” has widely been identified as “web art,” i.e., art that you experience on the web in a browser, it […]

“‘Instantaneous information, what can be seen at one time (without turning one’s head), and understood apart from a study of its parts. Additive information, whatever takes time to be understood, what takes time to be understood. Sequential development, adding on, accumulations of information, the uses of time, precedents, juxtaposition.’
Her work ‘accumulated,’ often no beginning, ending, […]

Laura U. Marks / Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector
Une ligne pour le plaisir d’étre ligne, d’aller, ligne. Points. Poudre de points.
Une ligne rêve. On n’avait jusque-là jamais laissé rêver une ligne.
Henri Michaux, “Aventures de lignes,” on the art of Paul […]

“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 […]

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 […]

“Genetic engineering has incited much debate. But while activists picket, big business quietly investigates, and intellectuals issue grave warnings, art has taken its usual place poking sticks in the eyes of all positions.” Michelle Kasprzak, GFP Bunny [1]
“… wake up and smell the GMO coffee.”
Frank Moore, Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution [2]
What are the […]

When Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced his oft-cited distinction between the faculties of “imagination” and “fancy,” he not only constructed a new semantic context for the former term as a cognitive facet uniquely vital to all creative endeavours, he also set an interesting precedent in literary criticism, acknowledging the importance of definition as an aesthetic practice […]