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 […]

In his essay The < body > of Net Art TCR 2-50 Jim Andrews reviews writings and artworks that share a creative interest in exploring these key aspects of the Web as important aesthetic qualities. He writes:
What I’ve tried to do here is look at the main types of resources and storage that contemporary […]

Another extension of the < body > of net art is its facilitation of growth and change over time according to what different people do with it collectively. For instance, a Wiki allows people to edit the pages of a website. Perhaps the most significant Wiki is wikipedia.org; for more Wikis, google the term. […]

As TCR 2-50 contributor Jim Andrews writes in his essay The < body > of Net Art: “Works of software art always make use of services available not remotely over the net, but rather from the operating system of the local computer. These range from tapping the computer’s graphic display device to its input/output devices […]

A work of net art has access to any number of web services that allow it to retrieve media and also analyze and respond to the language or other actions of the viewer. Web services are not just a type of memory for the brain of a work of net art, but provide some of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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David Jhave Johnston’s 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. He defines Interstitial art as any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or […]