Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

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. […]

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 […]

TCR 2-50 contributor Sharla Sava emphasizes, in her essay Gridlock: Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project, that both the form and content of Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project attest to social transformations brought about by the advent of a post-industrial, globalised world system. Rather than stressing the sovereignty of the individual nation-state, Hirsch’s art mobilizes data […]

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 […]

“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 […]

“… it’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified …” William Gibson, Johnny Mneumonic
Other artists have begun to alter (even interrogate) notions of portraiture and self-portraiture by constructing identity in relation to, and often critical of, […]

In order to contextualize the work Global Telelanguage Resources is doing toward the creation of an independent set of writing tools for writers and language enthusiasts that allows for the literary enhancement and creative design of texts via digital technology, it may be interesting to take another look at some of the early experiments in […]