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 and Hong Kong at the Microwave
festival. ABC
Architecture appeared on the cover of Taiwan's Chung Wai
literary magazine.
- Recent Print Publications
- Awards
- 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
- 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
- Advanced
Nonfiction Writing, Tom Peele, Boise State
- Art & Technology,
Stephen Wilson, Alex Killough, San Francisco State U
- Comparative
Literature, Charles Bernstein, U of Pennsylvania
- Comparative
Literature, Joseph Pivato, Athabasca U (Canada)
- Composing
for the Web, Raymond Oenbring, U of Washington
- Computation
as an Expressive
Medium, Michael Mateas, Ali Mazalek, Georgia Tech
- Concrete
Poetry and Cyberpoetry, Ian Syson, Victoria U (Australia)
- Cybertext and Contemporary
Literature, Chris Funkhouser, NJIT
- Digital
Aesthetics, Roberto Simanowski, Brown U
- Digital
Art, Joan Campās Montaner, U of Catalonia (Spain)
- Digital
Literature, John Zuern, U of Hawaii
- Digital
Literacy, Tom Peele, Boise State U
- Digital
Media, Amy Alexander, U of California, San Diego
- Digital
Poetics, Loss Glazier, SUNY, Buffalo
- Digital
Poetics, Dee Moriss, U of Iowa
- Digital
Rhetoric, Dānielle Nicole Devoss, Michigan State U
- Electronic
Literature, Rita Raley, U of California, S.B.
- Fundamentals
in Communication Design, Keith Robertson, RMIT
- Form
in Poetry, Charles Bernstein, SUNY
- 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
- Intermedia,
David Clark, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
- Intermedialities, K.
Brillenburg Wurth, Utrecht (Netherlands)
- Introduction
to Multimedia, Ken Clark, Central Queensland U (Australia)
- Introduction
to Multimedia, Denis Sherknies, U of Montréal
- Language
Art in Old & New Media, M. Giesecke, U of Erfurt (Germany)
- Literature Culture & Digital Media, T. Memmott, Blekinge
Institute of Tech (Sweden)
- Lit. & 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
- Modern
& Contemporary Poetry, Charles Bernstein, U of Pennsylvania
- Multimedia,
Tom Lawrence, U of Dublin City (Ireland)
- Multimedia
Writing, Sandy Baldwin, West Virginia U
- Networked
Media, Seth Keen, RMIT (Australia)
- New
Media Poetry, Stephanie Strickland, Georgia Tech
- New
Media Histories & Practices, Phillip Roe, Queensland
U (Australia)
- New
Media Theory, Ed Lamoureux, Bradley U
- Non-Linear
Narrative, Carla Gannis, Pratt Institute
- Prose
and its Malcontents, Charles Bernstein, SUNY
- Rhetoric
and Composition, Devon Fitzgerald, Illinois State
U
- Sprachkunst
in alten und neuen Medien, M. Giesecke/C. Heibach, U of
Erfurt (Germany)
- 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
Communication & Technology, Bill Marsh, Roosevelt U
- Visual
Rhetoric, Felicia C Dziadek, Texas A&M
- Word
and Image, Matthew Kirschenbaum, U of Maryland
- Writing
Spaces, Writing Selves, Mel Nichols, George Mason U
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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