Jim Andrews
Artist-Programmer, Visual Poet, Essayist, Senior Technical Writer
Selected Online Works (see vispo.com menu
for complete list)
Selected Interviews and Articles/Reviews About the Work
Huzzahs
- Modus Operandi
- Mostly I publish on my site vispo.com and other sites. I also publish essays in
books and print periodicals. Occassionally I show in galleries
and festivals; Arteroids was shown in Los Angeles at Machine
Gallery, Hong Kong at the Microwave
festival, and Leipzig at D21. ABC
Architecture appeared on the cover of Taiwan's Chung Wai
literary magazine.
- Recent Print Publications
- Awards
- Senior Canada Council grant to pursue digital storytelling, 2010.
- Artist in Residence contract from the Canada Council for Sept-Feb
(2002-2003) in Toronto at the Centre for Creative Communications.
- Canada Council jury member, Electronic Writing, August 2002.
- Senior Canada Council grant to pursue interactive audio, July
2001.
- Life-time membership at CFUV-FM, Victoria BC Canada.
- Commission
- New American Radio & Performing Arts for the Turbulence site
(2000).
- Talks/Presentations
- Beyond Text, Canterbury, England, 2009
- dbCinema, The Centre for Digital Media, Vancouver, 2009
- Jump-Cuts, Victoria B.C, 2007
- E-Poetry
Conference, Paris, 2007
- Seattle,
with Geof Huth, Nico Vassilakis, and Crag Hill, 2007
- Canadian Game
Studies Association conference, Toronto, 2006
- Keynote at Technological
Aesthetics, São Paulo, Brazil, 2006
- U of Rio de Janeiro, 2006
- Victoria Independent Film Festival, July 2005
- trAce (Britain),
July 2004
- Carleton
Digital Arts Festival, Sept 2003
- Empyre,
Feb 2003
- The Rochester Institute
of Technology, January 2003.
- Institute
for New Media Studies in Minneapolis, July 2002.
- Keynote at E-Poetry
2001 conference in Buffalo.
- Banff
New Media Institute, August 2001.
- Performer in Ottawa for launch of ITAC
art section, December 2001.
- Courses in which the work is taught
or on recommended reading list
- American Postmodern, Mark Sample, George Mason U
- Art & Lit in the Digital Domain, Bill Seaman, Katherine Hayles, Duke U
- Art & Technology,
Stephen Wilson, Alex Killough, San Francisco State U
- Comparative
Literature, Charles Bernstein, U of Pennsylvania
- Comparative
Literature, Joseph Pivato, Athabasca U (Canada)
- Computation
as an Expressive
Medium, Michael Mateas, Ali Mazalek, Georgia Tech
- Critical Reading and Writing, Jonathan Parsons, Memorial U, Newfoundland, Canada
- Cyberlit, Barclay Barrios, Rutgers
- Design & Composition for Interactive Installations, D Donck, M Wierckx, Utrecht
- Digital
Aesthetics, Roberto Simanowski, Brown U
- Digital
Art, Joan Campās Montaner, U of Catalonia (Spain)
- Digital
Literature, Shuen
Shing Lee, National Chung Hsing U (Taiwan)
- Digital
Literature, John Zuern, U of Hawaii
- Digital Literature, Allison Muri, U. of Saskatchewan
- Digital
Literacy, Tom Peele, Boise State U
- Digital
Media, Amy Alexander, U of California, San Diego
- Digital
Poetics, Loss Glazier, SUNY, Buffalo
- Digital Poetry, Chris Funkhouser, NJIT
- Digital
Poetry, Andrew Roberts, U of Dundee (Scotland)
- Digital
Rhetoric, Dānielle Nicole Devoss, Michigan State U
- Electronic Literature, Lance Olsen, U of Utah
- Electronic
Literature, Rita Raley, U of California, S.B.
- Electronic Literature, J Hodge, U of Chicago
- Experimental Writing, Nick Montfort, MIT
- Fundamentals
in Communication Design, Keith Robertson, RMIT
- Form
in Poetry, Charles Bernstein, SUNY
- History and Future of the Book, Allison Muri, U of Saskatchewan
- Hypertext
Fiction, Jeff Parker, Eastern Michigan U
- Hypertext
Fiction and Digital Poetries, Rita Raley, U of California,
S.B
- Hypertextual
Literature, Vicente Forés, U of Valencia (Spain)
- Interactive
Digital Multimedia, Barbara Lattanzi, Smith College
- Interactive
Fiction, Josephine Anstey, U of Buffalo
- Interactive Multimedia, Judd Morrissey, Art Institute of Chicago
- Intermedialities,
K.
Brillenburg Wurth, Utrecht (Netherlands)
- Intermedial Poetry, Chris Cheek, U of Miami
- Introduction
to Multimedia, Denis Sherknies, U of Montréal
- Literature & Hypermedia, Shuen
Shing Lee, National Chung Hsing U (Taiwan)
- Literature
in a Wired World, Leonardo Flores, U of Maryland
- Literature
Online, Chris Funkhouser, NJIT
- Media Cultures, Shiralee Saul, RMIT
- Media
and Representation, Cynthia Lawson, Parsons School of
Design
- Media Theory for the 21st Century, Katherine Hayles, UCLA
- Modern
& Contemporary Poetry, Charles Bernstein, U of Pennsylvania
- Multimedia,
Tom Lawrence, U of Dublin City (Ireland)
- Narrative Temporality in 20th C. Lit. & Theory, B Richardson, J Wellman, U of Maryland
- Networked
Media, Seth Keen, RMIT (Australia)
- New Media Poetics, Dee Morris, U of Iowa
- New
Media Theory, Ed Lamoureux, Bradley U
- Non-Linear
Narrative, Carla Gannis, Pratt Institute
- Prose
and its Malcontents, Charles Bernstein, SUNY
- Software Art, Hector Rodriguez/Bryan Chung, City U of Hong Kong
- Studies in Literature, Leonardo Flores, U of Puerto Rico
- Textual
Conditions, Charles Bernstein, U of Pennsylvania
- Textual
Media, Dean Taciuch, George Mason U
- The
Anthropology of Cyberspace, Brian Schwimmer, U of Manitoba
- The
Internet and Interactive Media, Megan Sapnar, Loyola College
- The
Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound, Charles Bernstein,
U of Pennsylvania
- The Word Made Digital, Nick Montfort, MIT
- Twentieth
Century Poetry, Charles Bernstein, U of Pennsylvania
- Visual
Rhetoric, Felicia C Dziadek, Texas A&M
- Word
and Image, Matthew Kirschenbaum, U of Maryland
Education/Teaching
- 2003-2005: Helped teach Digital Media at U of Victoria.
- 2002: Taught Director at The
Centre for Creative Communications in Toronto.
- 1990-92: Studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the U of Victoria.
- 1985: Trained to teach at Montessori schools.
- 1984: B.A. in English and Mathematics, U of Victoria.
Computing
- Computer Languages: Lingo, DHTML/CSS/Javascript,
Delphi, Visual Basic, Flash, Authorware, COBOL, 68000 Assembler,
PROLOG, SAS.
- Machines: PC, Macs, Main-frames, UNIX work stations.
- Assorted Software: Director, Sound Forge, Acid,
Delphi, VB, J++, PhotoShop, CorelDraw/Paint, Visio, DreamWeaver,
Flash, Authorware, PageMaker, Word.
Work History
- April 2000 - Present: Artist-Programmer
I wrote Windows for Shockwave, sell
it online, and write grants to do art.
- October 2003 - Dec 2005: Artist-Programmer
Contract at the U of Victoria in Visual Arts Dept as Programmer.
- Jan 2000 - July 2000: Solutions Architect, Network Commerce,
Seattle
Worked with clients to create specs for design of Web sites; with
Dev to ensure feasibility; with Biz Dev concerning pricing information;
with Design on site look. Projects ranged from $30,000 to $2,000,000
sites.
- Mar 97 - Jan 2000: Lead Technical Writer, Network Commerce,
Seattle
- Docs on NT/SQL/ASP and UNIX/Oracle/Perl ecommerce technology.
- Wrote a white paper describing our technology to potential
investors.
- Help files, business proposals, code specs, templates, and
graphics.
- Before 1997
- Freelanced as a Programmer and Technical Writer in Victoria
BC.
- Six-year literary radio show called FINE LINES and,
later, ?FRAME? at CFUV-FM heard each week on 15 stations.
- Wrote grant proposals for CFUV-FM (campus/community station).
- Tutored University and High school Math and English.
- Starved. Wrote. Starved. Wrote. Wrote. Ate.
Volunteer
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