Wiggles - a
strategy adventure game [German] Nudes by
Thomas Ruff [German] Yatoo by
Zeitgenossen [German] We Descend
by Bill Bly [English] Fighting/Dancing
Words in Works by Jim Andrews
[German/English]
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The categories
of "uncertain space", which originates in film
science and "cyclic time" are very typical for
strategy games. Karin Wenz analyzes the strategy
adventure Wiggles in respect to these typical
categories of space and time. The cyclic experience
of time can be lead back to loops typical for
computer programming and appears in the game itself
as recursions.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/03-01-Wenz.htm
Comments
by Wiggles-Programer Axel Hylla
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. Photographer without Camera. Net
Pornography as Art.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-30-Simanowski.htm
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
Is Jan Van
Looy's paper "23 reasons not to read We
Descend" really equipped to make him any
friends in the hypertext department? It all depends
on how much sense for criticism (and humor) there
has developed yet. 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 realisation 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. Looking for this we post
it here.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-14-Looy.htm
Comments
by Jill Walker and Jan Van Looy
The poem that
has drifted from the scene, the computer game that
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
as dessert: The metamorphosis of the
beast.
http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2002/01-10-Simanowski.htm