Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

In his introductory essay to TCR 2-50, Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies, guest-editor Andrew Klobucar outlines the major themes covered in the issue. An annotated version of the “In this issue…” section of his essay functions as a reading tour through Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams:
Klobucar: Kate Armstrong tells us more about the […]

I wonder how many people remember the Church of the Subgenius. It was around the time that the wave that crashed with The Industry Standard was just starting to form with Mondo 2000 that I coincidentally began to hear less and less about the Church, a mock religion that at once lampooned institutionalized salvation and […]

Since the industrial revolution we have struggled to reconcile the now twined notions of progress and obsolescence. Consider Rilke’s 18th Sonnet to Orpheus, written in 1922:
Do you hear the New, Master,
droning and throbbing?
Its prophesying promoters
are advancing.
No hearing’s truly keen
in all this noise;
still, now each machine
part wills its praise.
See, the Machine:
how it spins and […]

In the early 1990s, in San Francisco, where I was living at the time, the characteristically cold, fog-drenched air was laced with an outpouring of fin de siècle technopagan optimism. Oh, how the internet will open up new liberating avenues of communication! Fast-forward a few years, to the late 1990s – said “communication” is finally […]

In offering up Some Thoughts About “New Media” in Quotes, Gordon Winiemko notes: I could perform on cue myself, and provide a list of “new media” work that I like. I just recently took Janet Cardiff’s video walk-through of San Francisco MOMA again and, like the first time, it did not fail to move me. […]

Years after I acquired a bootleg of it on VHS tape, I can now watch the NBC Tomorrow Show interview with John Lydon on crisp (albeit riddled with lossy compression) DVD. DVD (digital versatile disc) is the long awaited improvement over the long-standing home video format, VHS (vertical helical scan). What the former gains […]

TRC 2-50 contributor Gordon Winiemko writes, in his essay Some Thoughts About “New Media” in Quotes: I suppose there must have been a time when “performance art” seemed new or fresh. Still, it’s hard for me to understand how anyone could do a performance, as in “Now I will perform for you,” when everything […]

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 […]

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 […]