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Photographer
without Camera. Net Pornography as Art in Thomas
Ruff's "Nudes" [German]
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Pornographic
Ready-mades from the Internet, manipulated with
image programs, exhibited in art galleries. With
his collection "Nudes" Thomas Ruff undertakes a
new approach to photography of the nude by
basing it twice on digital media. The result
still reveals its blurred source and operates on
the tension between showing and masking. At the
same time Ruff changes the hierarchy of gazing:
the exposed body watches the voyeur who finally
becomes the target of observation.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-30-Simanowski.htm
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Computer
Games. Interview with Claus Pias
[German]
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Claus Pias
discusses the development and characteristics of
Computer Games in his doctoral thesis "Computer
Spiel Welten" (2000). Roberto Simanowski talked
with him about media studies, aesthetics,
ethics, concepts of interactions in computer
games and their predecessors in the pre digital
age.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-30-Pias.htm
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Becoming full-time web artist. Interview with Jim
Andrews [English]
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He run a
literary radio show and magazine, and organized
venues for weekly poetry readings. Now he is
creating work based in the emerging field of
audio-visual poetry. Roberto Simanowski
questions Jim Andrews about the relationship in
his work between programming skills and
conceptual concerns, his opinion about the
differences between European and North American
net art, and the proverbial problem of the
"media melting pot" which subordinates one
medium into another.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-29-Andrews.htm
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"Yatoo" by Zeitgenossen
[German]
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Yatoo
(You Are The Only One) is an audio-visual
Hypertext, a love poem, that reveals its text
via mouse contact. The sound is accompanied by
visual events, the semantic meaning may please
even skeptics. Ursula Hentschläger and
Zelko Wiener have produced an intriguing work of
digital art.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-21-Simanowski.htm
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"We
Descend" by Bill Bly
[English]
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Is Jan Van
Looy's paper "23 reasons not to read We
Descend" really equipped to make him any
friends in the hypertext department? Looy's
comment on Bill Bly's We Descend is
deliberately merciless, antagonistic, and
overdrawn as some sentences already prove:
-Claiming that hypertext is a realization of
Derrida's Grammatologie is wishful thinking.
-We Descend sounds like the last thirty
pages of a cheap detective novel.
-If a plot should be a Swiss watch, We
Descend's is Egyptian counterfeit.
Questionable in some regard, this provocative
comment provokes comments. DD hopes to use this
article as a starting point for further
discussion.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-14-Looy.htm
 Comments
by Jill Walker and Jan Van Looy
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Fighting/Dancing
Words in Works by Jim Andrews
[German/English]
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The poem
that has drifted from the scene, the computer
game that silences or "shuts up" poetry in the
name of poetry, the A Capella as hypertext and
"lettristic dance" ... Andrew's
kinetic-concrete, audio-visual poetry is an
ironic approach to the materiality of text;
providing both visual and cognitive pleasure.
And for dessert: The metamorphosis of the
beast.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-10-Simanowski.htm
English
Translation by Florian Cramer
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Cyberhypes.
Prospects and Limits of the Internet
[German]
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Surrounded
by computers, stuck in the middle of a Mall...
The 14 contributions in this collection by
Rudolf Maresch and Florian Rötzer - a
follow up to "Mythos Internet" - reviews the
Internet some years later and talk first of all
about victims and loss. The Internet has grown
up, removes the the nose piercing and looks for
a job.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-06-Simanowski.htm
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Transmedialization:
An interart transfer
[English]
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Transmedialization
describes the transfer of text from one medium
to another. It is a special type of
"remediation": closely related to a specific
text. Transmedialization may parallel or develop
the source text. The question is: Which aspect
is foregrounded and which is hidden by the
transmedialization? Karin Wenz distinguishes
with Bruhn 4 cases of transmedialization:
integration, inflection, adaption, and
enactment...
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-05-Wenz.htm
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Mythos
Internet [German]
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The 17
contributions of this collection discuss what is
truth and what is myth about the predicted
Internet society. What David J. Bolter develops
with respect to media history and Marx' 6.
Feuerbach thesis - the individual as sum of its
links -, Mark Poster points as: The
Internet resembles more Germany than a
hammer.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-05-Simanowski.htm
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Time
and Space in Interactive Media for Children
[English/German]
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Does the
interactive freedom have to be sacrificed for
the sake of an acceptable time-structure? Should
technology evolve towards fully immersive
environments? Does the apparent flaw of
"quality" have to be attributed to the entire
genre or can it put down to the failures of
individual specimen of a young and developing
genre? Anja Rau and Karin Wenz report from an
explorative workshop in Zürich that
discussed computer games as a specimen of
digital literature.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-22-Rau.htm
[English]
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/02-04-Wenz.htm
[German]
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Digital
Poetics. The Making of E-Poetries
[English]
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What
writing is, becomes altered by how it is
physically written through its production
technology, its files, codes and URLs. Even the
URL itself contributes in a small way to our
experience of reading. (What are you thinking as
you type in: /theories/hypertext.html versus
/theories/tomfoolery/hypertext.html?) To
discover "poetry" in coming years one must learn
to see through a new lens. The excerpt from Loss
Pequeño Glazier's book gives an idea what
is to be taken into
account.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-02-Glazier.htm
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