August 2024:
Aug 8: Rehab R. Omer has translated Seattle Drift into Arabic..
Aug 7: Computer Art and the Theory of Computation.
This major essay is one of the only knowlegeable things out
there about the relations between computer art and the theory
of computation. It used to be on netartery, which is down for
the foreseeable future--but which might be back. In any case,
it's good to have a pdf version of this. I have slightly edited
it, so the pdf is the most recent, final version of this essay.
June 2024:
June 1: JIM ANDREWS: Sea of Po - animisms and a 'different sort of poetry & magazine'. Writing by Sarah Tremlett about Sea of Po and my work more generally.
May 2024:
May 20: Sea of Po is an appzine of 52 poets in a generative, kinetic, interactive, never-the-same-twice experience of 14 languages. It's a new experience of poetry and of a poetry magazine. It also animates and saves your texts, and creates deluxe screenshots.
May 4: Enigma n in Arabic is a translation by Egypt's Rehab Omer of a 1998 interactive poem.
May 1: Morphs is a collection of morphs I made from 1997 to 2007, plus writing about them.
Jan 2024:
Jan 27: Amateur in collab with Kirill Azernyy.
Dec 2023:
Dec 29: Digital Poetry in Digital Literacy. An essay (2000 words) published in issue 2 of Computers and Culture from University College Cork, Ireland
(Dec 2023), edited by James O'Sullivan.
Dec 27: A Philosophy of Computer Art by Dominic Lopes. Re-released from 2009.
Sept 2023:
Sept 22: Indicted 2023. Very Trumpy.
August 2023:
August 23: Click to elevate.. Also published in Taper 11.
April 2023:
March 16: 285 screenshots from Lorem Ipsum
March 2023:
March 16: Lorem Ipsum is a videopoem in collaboration with Adeena Karasick.
March 2: Aleph Null 4.0 front door to my collab with Adeena Karasick.
Feb 2023:
Feb 14: Checking In 2 in collaboration with Adeena Karasick.
May 2022:
May 10: An essay I wrote about Enigma n2022.
May 2022:
May 10: Enigma n2022 is a major new work! It's amazing! Check it out!
December 2021:
Dec 16: The Guest section of vispo.com now contains 11 works by Ted Warnell.
Dec 7: The Guest section of vispo.com now contains 21 works by Chris Joseph.
November 2021:
Nov 13: The Guest section of vispo.com now contains a slideshow of images by Kent Christensen
October 2021:
Oct 15: Front door to colour music in Aleph Null 3.1-4.0
Oct 1: A collab with my Russian friend Kirill Azerny: End of Recognition
September 2021:
Sept 8: City on the Other Side of Time, a slideshow of 500 images.
April 2021:
April 20: Daniel f Bradley's '250 pics or so'
April 2: NeoNio launches. This is an HTML5 version of my 2000 Director piece Nio. Nio was mentioned
in the NYTimes in Matthew Mirapaul's column on the best net art of 2001.
March 2021:
March 19: Piece on Randee Silv's site Arteidolia about "erogenous zones"
March 12: bill bissett and Jim Leftwich mashed up in Aleph Null slideshow
March 7: A slideshow of the complete issue of Earth's Daughters #2, 1971, featuring
Judith Kerman, Judith Treible, Mindy Aloff, Kate Swanka, Suan Fantl, Joseph Kelly,
Janet Goldenberg, Anne Petrone, and Kastle Brill. Thanks to Judith Kerman for
permission to publish this on vispo.com.
February 2021:
Feb 25: Video of Daniel f Bradley's "erogenous zones" in Aleph Null
Feb 24: Video of Daniel f Bradley, Jim Leftwich and bill bissett in Aleph Null
Feb 22: Lanny Quarles visual poetry
Feb 21: Video of Jim Leftwich + Daniel f Bradley in Aleph Null
Feb 20: Video of bill bissett + Daniel f Bradley in Aleph Null
Feb 19: Slidvid of screenshots of Daniel f Bradley's "erogenous zones" in Aleph Null
Feb 18: Daniel f Bradley's "erogenous zones" in Aleph Null
Feb 17: Daniel f Bradley: "erogenous zones"
Feb 16: Front door to Karl Kempton in Aleph Null.
January 2021:
Jan 20: The Guest section of vispo.com now contains a slideshow of images by Lanny Quarles
December 2020:
Dec 26: Questions About Creativity is a book that contains
an interview of me by Piotr Szreniawski.
Dec 10: Front door for AMERICAN HITLER
October 2020:
Oct 15: It's Art If Someone Says So (essay)
Oct 8: Jim Leftwich front page for Aleph Null 3.1. Links to all things
Jim Leftwich in Aleph Null 3.1-4 plus an essay on the project.
Sept 20: Front door for all the Aleph Null 3.1-4.0 Alchemical Cosmography work.
Sept 19: Front door for all the Aleph Null 3.1-4.0 Time Machine work.
August 2020:
Aug 30: Front door for all the No New Ideas stuff.
Aug 28: War Pigs is online, available as a 32-bit downloadable executable for Mac and Windows. War Pigs is an interactive music game I made.
Aug 27: A new homepage for Arteroids. Includes a book about Arteroids that I wrote, a free 32-bit downloadable executable of the game itself, and several videos.
Aug 26: Slideshow of 100 images of Aleph Null chewing on bill bissett. The images are mostly 3840x2160. It's in the new version of Slidvid. There's an accompanying video of Aleph Null in action chewing on bill bissett.
Aug 25: A Brit by the name of Gareth Hopkins created a project in which he asked participants to take a page from his abstract graphic novel, do something with/to it, and send him the results. Gareth's page involved the text 'There are no new ideas'; the project is called No New Ideas. Gareth then posted them all online and may do other things with the collection. With Gareth's help, I took the graphics people sent him and fed them all to Aleph Null. Plus an exchange I had with Jim Leftwich about the idea that there are no new ideas. Here's a Slidvid of 176 selected 1920x1080 images of Aleph Null chewing on No New Ideas. Here's a Slidvid of 69 images (3840x2160) of Aleph Null chewing on No New Ideas. Here's a new Aleph Null nib of No New Ideas. Here's 3 videos (video1, video2, video3) of Aleph Null in action chewing on No New Ideas. Participants include Alfredo Santos, Amy Hopkins, Bill Hopkins, Chloe Starlig, Chris Joseph, Cindy Lou, Daniel Bristow Bailey, Gareth A Hopkins, Hazel R Web, Jenny Robins, Jeremy Bushnell, Kele Web, Ladenia Jones, Martha Hopkins, Michæl Orzechowski, Nick Bryan, Piotr Szreniawski, Rosaire Appel, Sarah Daniels, Steve Thompson and Tony Edwards.
Aug 24: An update to the Nio project of 2001. Here is a free downloadable executable version of Nio (Windows only).
Aug 24: An update to The Pens. There's a free downloadable, interactive 32-bit app and some videos.
Aug 23: Here is a new 210-image slidvid of ALCHEMICAL COSMOGRAPHY from the 9th to the 18th centuries. It displays 210 different images and then repeats the slideshow. Some of these images build on previous ones. Most of the images are 3840x2160 so they zoom nicely.
** Use the space key to toggle pause/play (or pause/play button)
** Point mouse and turn mouse wheel to zoom.
** On mobile, touch and hold to zoom in.
** On mobile, double touch and hold to zoom out.
Aug 22: Two videos (video 1, video 2) of Aleph Null chewing on the visual poetry of Karl Kempton. Music by Eric Satie.
Aug 21: Video of me talking about the art in the recent show of Aleph Null prints I showed at Massy Books.
May 2020:
May 15: Slideshow of 393 images created with Aleph Null 3.1 using the Time Machine brush. It's a slideshow of a clock. Exciting.
May 1: Aleph Null itself chewing on the Time Machine itself. A never-the-same-twice animation. Only possible to view it once.. Here's a couple of videos (video1, video2) of Aleph Null in action chewing on Time Machine.
April 2020:
Apr 20: Slideshow of 300 images created with Aleph Null 3.1 using the Alchemical Cosmography brush. This is the first slideshow using Slidvid2
Apr 20: Slideshow of 325 images that was shown at Massy Books in my show Aleph Null: Graphic Synthesizer. This slideshow uses Slidvid2.
February 2020:
Feb 28: Links to all things Lionel Kearns at vispo.com.
Feb 28: Head Like a Hole music video produced with Bob Kasher. The Nine Inch Nail song set to visuals of my creation in Aleph Null.
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Trump) 1
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Trump) 2
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Ivanka, Conway, Sanders, Hicks )
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Kelly Anne Pence)
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Trump, Barr, Putin, Ivanka, Sanders)
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Michael Cohen, Donald Jr, Eric Trump)
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Melania Stone McConnell)
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Don Putin)
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Don Hitler)
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Vlad Melania)
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Ivanka Hitler)
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Trump, Conway
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Trump, Bannon, Hitler) 2
Feb 28: Aleph Null slideshow (Trump, Giuliani, Hitler)
November 2019:
Nov 2: A video of my talk at the opening of my show Aleph Null, Graphic Synthesizer, at Massy Books in Vancouver.
Nov 2: I took the ads out of my piece Globebop.com
Nov 2: Please Insert Text, a poem by me.
Nov 2: Jim Leftwich home page in Aleph Null.
Oct 2019:
Oct 25: I have a show of prints opening at Massy Books, Friday Oct 25, 6-8pm. Here's my artist statement: vispo.com/massy. Here's a catalog of the available prints. I'm excited about this show. The prints are of high-res images created in Aleph Null. And Nat put together a Raspberry Pi app that boots a Pi and starts playing a slideshow of Aleph Null images. So the show is visual poetry meets visual art meets computer art meets net art. And the prints look great. Hope to see you there.
May 2019:
May 10: I published some digital poems by Waliya Johanna Joseph from Nigeria, his first published digital poems.
April 2019:
Apr 17: Slideshow of Jim Leftwich's "asemic"--or "pansemic"--visual poems used in Aleph Null 4.0. This is a slideshow of about 260 images. These are Jim's poems, not Aleph Null's chewings on them.
Apr 16: New Aleph Null nib featuring the work of the artist Yael Gilks aka Fau Ferdinand. Click to configure the nib.
Apr 13: New Text-Image nib in Aleph Null. Click to configure the Text-Image nib. You can use your own text, font, and fill the font with your own images. You can also specify how many words accumulate before the screen is erased.
Apr 13: New essay: Me and the Random
Apr 13: New essay: How Does Poetry Change?
Apr 12: A slideshow of 260 screenshots of the new Alchemical Cosmography brush for Aleph Null 4.0. The underlying images are from the 13th to 18th century and concern alchemy or cosmography (pictures of the cosmos). Also, check out the never-the-same-twice animation from which the screenshots were made. Click to configure the nib.
Apr 5: A slideshow (232 images) of the new Jim Leftwich nib for Aleph Null 4.0. This has a new set of underlying Jim Leftwich images. Think of this as the total and complete fusion of poetry and. Also, check out the never-the-same-twice animation from which the screenshots were made. Click to configure the nib.
Jan 2019:
Jan 2: The Polish poet Piotr Szreniawski recently interviewed me on matters ranging from art and addiction to poetry comics (poemics) and whether poets are similar to computers.
Jan 1: Slidvid 23 in my collab with bill bissett; dbCinema gnoshing on bill's concrete (186 images, 1920x1080).
Nov 2018:
Nov 17: Slidvid of 45 images of dbCinema gnoshing on the concrete poetry of bill bissett..
Nov 16: Quite a spectacular slidvid of 500 images of Aleph Null gnoshing on the concrete poetry of bill bissett; it's called th eye is th wind.
Nov 10: Slidvid of 100 images of dbCinema gnoshing on the concrete poetry of bill bissett.
Oct 2018:
Oct 2: New Text-Image brush in Aleph Null images. There's a slidvid of images of it here.
Oct 3: Also, some Alchemical Cosmography + bill bissett videos here and here.
Sept 2018:
Sept 13: New slidvid of Alchemical Cosmography images. There are new versions of the Alchemical Cosmography images: png images that have transparent sections.
Sept 7: New slidvid of 199 Alchemical Cosmography images. Also a page of links to all things Alchemical Cosmography.
July 2018:
July 6: Have been continuing the collaboration with bill bissett. Lots of new stuff at the collab home page. The new material is from the section labeled "dirtee konkreet (oldest to newest)", such as the series of 100 screenshots and the series of 140 screenshots.
June 2018:
June 11: There's a new bill bissett brush in Aleph Null along with lots of videos of it in action and screenshots of it in action. When you start the bill bissett brush, one of 7 poems by this legendary poet/painter is started up. This page contains links not only to the bissett brush in Aleph Null, but to the videos and screenshots of it in action.
June 1: Screenshots from Aleph Null with two brushes: Dan Waber and Trump. And here is a video of a similar session. This slidvid also has a new feature: fullscreen. Look for the fullscreen button top left.
May 2018:
May 6: Excerpt from the introduction to Aleph Null 3. Video of some of that text. Several more new videos here and here.
May 5: Alchemical Cosmography + Tangents + Parables is a video I made of Aleph Null 3.0 in action with four brushes. This links to my video channel on youtube which has a lot of videos I've made of my interactive work in action.
April 2018:
Apr 11: Oppen Do Down is a JavaScript version of a 2000 work of interactive audio I originally created in Director.
Apr 10: Checking In is a collaboration with Adeena Karasick. This appears inside Aleph Null 3.0. The text is Karasick's from her 2018 book Checking In from Talonbooks. She also chose the 300+ images in the mix. I wrote about the collaboration. And here are some screenshots from Checking In.
Feb 2018:
Feb 18: The Role of Programming in Computer Art considers the role of programming in the new art form of computer art.
Nov 2017:
Nov 20: The <Body> of Net Art is a 2006 essay originally published in the Capilano Review
Nov 2: Aleph Null 3.0 is a big change.
Nov 2: Essay on Chris Joseph's digital poem Sprinkled Speech. Also published on hyperrhiz.io.
Nov 2: The Moral Deformity of Team Trump A slideshow of 429 screenshots from Aleph Null 3.0 with the Trump nib.
Jun 2017:
June 14: globalCompositeOperations with Ted Warnell
June 13: SimiLily with Adeena Karasick
June 13: Arteroids video
Dec 2016:
Dec 12: Essay on Aleph Null 2.0 screenshots.
Nov 2016:
Nov 12: Stir Fry texts by Curt Rode
Nov 9: Aleph Null 2.0. Interactive generative abstract art.
Nov 9: A slideshow of selected screenshots I created of Aleph Null 2.0 in action.
May 2016:
Nov 9: A video of dbCinema work I did with the poet Adeena Karasick.
Jan 2016:
Jan 4: Globebop is for couch potato tourists. Click the globe and visit random locations. Read about them in Wikipedia. Search for specific places.
Jan 20: My essay Art, Games and Play, originally commissioned by and published on the CIAC site from Montreal, is now on my site.
August 2015:
August 5: Collaborative work with the poet Adeena Karasick.
July 2015:
July 5: dbCinema image work with material by Jim Leftwich, Andrew Topel and bill bissett.
May 2015:
May 1: I've updated for touch and mobile the stir fry texts Log, Spastext, Blue Hyacinth, Kedrick James, Salome, and Divine Mind Fragment Theater. And there is a new stir fry called The Stir Fry Concerning Technology.
April 2015:
Apr 4: I've upgraded for touch and mobile Seattle Drift.
Feb 2015:
Feb 16: I've upgraded for touch and mobile Enigma n, and Leo Flores translated it into Spanish.
Feb 2015:
Feb 12: Langrid is an interactive (mobile friendly) poem.
Feb 2015:
Feb 4: An article in Spanish, from Mexico City, about some of my work. These are translations of writing by Dr. Leo Flores about Nio, the stir fry texts, Arteroids, Aleph Null, Enigma n, and Enigma n-squared.
Jan 2015:
Jan 1: Computer Art and the Theory of Computation is an essay I wrote about the relations of those two things.
May 2014:
May 13: Teleporter is a new online work. It teleports you to a random spot on the planet each time you press the "Teleport" button. There's also a map-view and you can share your travels. There's a web version, an iPhone/iPad version (app) and an Android app. And an essay I wrote about the project.
January 2012:
Jan 11: Webcast of a talk on my work I gave at SFU Surrey to grad students and faculty of the Interactive Arts and Technology program. It's kind of annoying in that I'm the only person you can hear and the image of the screen doesn't keep up, sometimes, but still a better setup than most webcasts, I suspect.
Jan 21: Chris Funkhouser's book New Directions in Digital Poetry was recently published. I'm happy and proud to say that my work is quite prominent in this book; Funkhouser discusses Arteroids, the Stir Fry Texts, and dbCinema. There's a pdf of the book online for a limited time. Funkhouser is also the author of the first book-length history of digital poetry.
November 2011:
Nov 18: Why I Am a Net Artist. An essay published on Netartery and in the Journal of Electronic Publishing in their special issue on digital poetry.
September 2011:
Sept 5: New slidvid of Aleph Null stills.
August 2011:
Aug 8: Aleph Null, an interactive, generative visual work in JavaScript and the new HTML 5 canvas tag.
May 2011:
May 30: The Club (video and slidvid). My favorite politicians, business men, and psychopaths incinemated.
December 2010:
Dec 5: Wikileaks, Napster, and the Ayatollah Flanagan is an article I wrote about things concerning Wikileaks
Dec 5: An interview with me by Paule Makrous in issue 38 of the CIAC's electronic mag.
October 2010:
Oct 12: Leonardo Flores's doctoral thesis on my work.
Oct 22: Mathias Jansson (in Swedish) on Arteroids
Oct 24: Canadian Psycho (on Russell Williams)
September 2010:
Sept 12: My aunt Georgie Irvine passed away in 1997. I've put up some photos of her and wrote something about her.
June 2010:
June 29: My dad, Dick Andrews, passed away in 2000. I've put some pictures up of dad, and wrote something about him. I still miss him.
June 26: I put together two videos in 2009 on my late Aunt Lucy Milne, my dad's sister.
June 16: I recently started up a group blog called Netartery. The group, so far, consists of 13 writers/media artists/scholars including Gregory Whitehead, Andy Campbell, Jhave Johnston, Chris Funkhouser, Christine Wilks, Regina Celia Pinto, Chris Joseph, Leonardo Flores, Marcus Bastos, and others. Netartery is primarily a place to post about one's new work and new work of interest to the group and its readership, and about related issues. New work, interesting ideas, events, and so on. The people posting to Netartery are media writers and scholars of media writing. They are 'writers gone wrong' in this sense. They might write books, but they are also involved in other forms of artistic writing. These can be vispoetic or performative, programmerly, audio-oriented, and what not.
May 2010:
May 18: "Does Lara Croft stiry fry?" by Amos Satterlee (stir fry)
April 2010:
Apr 18: Net Art and the Fireflies of Eternity (essay)
Apr 16: Major Perlof reads 'Seattle Drift'
Apr 15: A 6 minute video on some selected work of mine.
March 2010:
Mar 13: POET PIRATE NETBOT by Kedrick James.
Mar 4: This is quite a good article on digital poetry: "Digital Duende:
Reading the Rasp in E-Poetry" by Amanda G. Michaels. She explains
Lorca's
use of the term duende, concerning art, in his lecture "Play and Theory of
the Duende". And moves on to look at work by Ken Goldsmith, Craig Dworkin,
Simon Biggs, Mez, and myself in relation to duende. And she discusses critical writing by Chris Funkhouser, Nathaniel Mackey, Michael Davidson, and Landow.
February 2010:
Feb 7: For Millie Niss. Millie passed away Nov 29, 2009.
Feb 7: Vancouver
Feb 4: New York
January 2010:
Jan 8: London Hypotrochoid: A city of the mind—your mind. Requires the Shockwave
plugin. Mac users need to use Firefox.
Click it when it seems to be finished. dbCinema will then paint the town in
a different way. Usually clicking changes the nib and path of the brush
(randomly). Sometimes it adds another brush or deletes a brush, if there are
two. Occassionally the mouse controls the brush. Usually it clears the
screen when you click; sometimes it changes brush type.
All the best for the new year. 2010 past a space odyssey. But still not down
to earth.
December 2009:
Dec 9: An essay called Art, Games and Play commissioned by the Centre for International Contemporary Art in Montreal.
Dec 1: New dbCinema series: GUESS THE HALLUCINATION. Plus an essay toward a bit of quantitative analysis of the semantics of collage/cutup methods.
November 2009:
Nov 4: I wrote a review of A Philosophy of Computer Art by Dominic McIver Lopes. There's also a link to a video interview I did with the author.
October 2009:
October 29: New dbCinema series: Klee Flowers
September 2009:
Sept 23: Added a control to the top left of the vispo.com home page. Clicking 0/1 lets you see the background image clearly. Clicking -> and <- advance the background image and go back an image.
Sept 14: Added Javascript to the home page so that each time you visit it, the background image is selected randomly from more than 150 hand-picked images I've created that work OK with the home page of vispo.com.
Here are some posts I've written to netpoetic.com (the first two are notices of new works by others)
August 2009:
August 24: I've been writing a few posts to netpoetic.com, a group blog about digital literature:
July 2009:
July 18: New dbCinema series: Olga Glukovska
July 5: New dbCinema series: Kedrick James
June 2009:
June 28: New dbCinema series: Silvia Saint II
May 2009:
May 3: Issue 3 of aslongasittakes.org, an online sound poetry publication from Atlanta, includes a piece by me called Jig-Arteroids.
April 2009:
Apr 21: Arteoids is exhibited in Leipzig, Germany at D21 gallery.
Apr 11: David Jhave Johnston's Sound Seeker.
February 2009:
Feb 19: Streaming Flash video of a Feb 12/09 talk I gave about dbCinema and Jig-Sound. dbCinema is a graphic synthesizer and Jig-Sound is an interactive audio app I'm writing. The talk was given in Vancouver at The Centre for Digital Media.
January 2009:
Jan 18: A piece of mine, "The Idea of Order at Key West Re-ordered" is in an exhibit in Tennessee curated by Alan Bigelow.
Jan 1 : Geof Huth's Endemic Battle Collage and Other 1987 Apple Basic Poems.
December 2008:
Dec 1 : Jig-Sound new heap of Arteroids sounds.
November 2008:
Nov 8 : My mom, Evelyn
Andrews, passed away on September 22. I have finished putting together
11x11=121 pictures, each of which includes her. The pictures are
arranged chronologically from age 0.5 to 75. In my experience,
she never liked having her picture taken. But she kept all of these.
Very few of them are solely of her. For the most part, they show
her with the people she loved.
October 2008:
Oct 18: Kandinsky7.
I made these images with dbCinema, a graphic synthesizer I'm writing
in Adobe Director. This series, as with Kandinsky6, show more of
what dbCinema looks like when it is running.
Oct 17: Kandinsky6. I made these images with dbCinema, a
graphic synthesizer I'm writing in Adobe Director.
September 2008:
Sept 18 : From The
First Remainder Series by Joseph F. Keppler.
August 2008:
Aug 22 : A new (Shockwave) interactive audio piece called
F8MW9. the audio and visuals are by margareta waterman.
July 2008:
June 20: Brazil's Jorge Luiz Antonio has put together a
CD on digital poetry with a
piece by me on the CD.
June 2008:
June 22: Lots of
my work uses HTML tables centered vertically. Info on vertical
centering.
June 18: new dbCinema image series using a photo by Stephen
Vincent--thanks to Stephen for permission to use his terrific photo.
June 4 : Save your
work before clicking here. This concatenates all the dbCinema
image series into one slidvid.
June 1 : Each of
the dbCinema image series now has a
slideshow option. Choose a series and then click the button
with the "s" on it.
May 2008:
May 27 : "Graphic
loven ". I typed "comics" into dbCinema and
came up with these images.
May 19 : "Kandinsky
5 ".
This uses the same brush as does the "Color
& Brush 2" series,
but "Kandinsky
5" paints with image, not color.
May 17 : "Color
& Brush 2 ". Continuing to explore dbCinema's possibilities
via painting without image.
May 13 : "Color
& Brush".
dbCinema image series. Normally dbCinema images use other images.
The brushes in these images just use color, not images, as 'paint'.
May 5 : "Kandinsky
4". dbCinema image series.
April 2008:
April 24 : Short
review from France (in French) of the dbCinema binary meditations.
April 5 : "Kandinsky
3" and writing about
this series of images generated with my app dbCinema that I'm
writing. There are two earlier series of images based mainly
on Kandinsky paintings: "Kandinsky
2" and "Kandinsky".
January 2008 :
Jan 2 : Here are the graphics I've produced so far with
dbCinema: dbCinema Binary
Meditations. These include binary meditations on "Kandinsky",
"Sunset", "Jim
Leftwich", "Geof
Huth", "Silvia
Saint", and "Abstract
Art". The executable of the current version of dbCinema
is not online. There is a little video, though, that's meant as a
tutorial for those kind enough to test dbCinema.
July 2007 :
July 12: The
Pen
June 2007 :
June 11 : A
short streaming video of my presentation of Arteroids in Paris
at Epoetry 2007.
May 2007 :
May 10: Here is a link to the below piece from the E-Poetry
conference.
April 2007:
Apparently Arteroids is discussed in a
book from MIT press; I haven't seen the
book yet.
March 2007 :
Mar 30: I'll
be in Seattle March 30. Hope to see you there. Later on, May 20-23,
I'll be in Paris at the E-Poetry conference.
Mar 13: The Canadian experimental poet bpNichol
wrote First Screening, a suite of programmed, kinetic
poems, in 1983-84. This links to a project that
presents First
Screening on the Web in various formats,
including a JavaScript version by Marko J. Niemi and myself;
the project also includes essays by me, Dan Waber, Geof Huth,
and Lionel Kearns about First Screening and bpNichol.
Here
are comments on the project by Nick
Montfort,
Jack Kimball, Gregory
Betts and Markku
Paasonen.
Mar 7 : An
essay of mine called "Videogames as Literary Devices" is published
in a book called Videogames
and Art. The book is published by the University of Chicago Press
and is edited by Grethe Mitchell and Andy Clarke. My essay looks
at degrees of subordination of videogame to art in art/games
by Regina Célia
Pinto, Natalie Bookchin, Neil Hennessey, and myself.
Mar 6: Added new links to my collection of links to interactive
audio for the Web and my collection of links
to other types of net art.
January 2007 :
Jan 26: I've started a sort of research page on Internet radio.
Lots of great links to streaming music at the moment.
Jan 15: Kiene
Brillenburg Wurth discusses Nio and other literary media works
in her paper titled "Multimediality, Intermediality, and Medially
Complex Digital Poetry".
Jan 15: Song Shapes and a review of Doom 3 at unlikelystories.org. Geof Huth reviews the issue.
Jan 3: Regina Célia Pinto translated Seattle Drift into Portuguese
and Harry Ross translated it into Italian.
December 2006:
Dec 13: "From
Concrete to Digital: The Reconceptualisation of Poetic Space" (192 Kb
PDF), by Anna Katharina Schaffner. This paper discusses some of my work and that
of Ana Maria Uribe, Marko Niemi, and Dan Waber.
Dec 7: Over
the years, vispo.com has come to house some fine work by
other artists. This page links to that work and to work I've
done in collaboration with others. Geof
Huth has written about the vispo.com Guests & Collaborators project.
November 2006:
Nov 6: Redesigned the vispo.com/audio page
and got rid of the Real Audio files. It just serves mp3's now
(streaming or savable). The Real Audio files were more compressed,
lower quality. That era seems to be over (whew).
Nov 5: Am in the midst
of changing to a new hosting service.
Nov 1: On
Lionel Kearns, Nio,
and Stir
Fry Texts in Vol 1 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
October 2006:
Oct 26-30: Am off to Banff
New Media Institute Oct 26-30.
Oct 23: On
Lionel Kearns in Berlin.
Oct 22: Regina Célia
Pinto translated Spastext and Seattle
Drift into Portuguese.
Oct 15: Marko Niemi
translated Spastext into
Finnish and did a second translation of Seattle
Drift.
Continuing to work
on Jig-Sound. Some not-so-obvious Jig-Sound features:
you can select multiple sound icons by dragging a rectangle
around a bunch; or shift+click to add icons from a selection;
alt+click already-selected ones among a group to de-select;
you can ctrl+drag and drop to swap icons.
September 2006:
Arteroids 3.1. Scores
in 'game mode' are now uploaded to the Net. And the texts
you read when you 'win' or 'lose' have been re-written and
expanded.
August 2006:
Marko Niemi has written
five Concrete Stir Fry Poems.
July 2006:
An essay on Interactive Audio For the Web.
June 2006:
June 23: A page of links to works of interactive
audio for the Web.
June 10: e-motive:
Visual Poetry in the Digital Age is an exhibition
at the U of Essex that includes Nio and work by Ana Maria
Uribe.
May 2006:
May 21: Arteroids in
Italy.
May 9: Mariana
Coronha on the Stir
Fry Texts.
May 9: I
am working on Jig-Sound.
March 2006:
Mar 11: Manuel Portela on Enigma
n.
Mar 10: On Lionel
Kearns published in volume 9 of WordForWord.com
Jan 2006:
Jan1:
Geof Huth on Arteroids.
Jan
3: dbcinema 0.6. It searches both Google and Yahoo
now for images.
November 2005:
Redesign of home page. Someone remarked
to me "you've got interesting stuff on your site but
I don't get an indication of it from your home page." So
I've tried to do something about that. Today a friend said "you've
been busy uploading new work." Not so. But the site's
contents are more evident.
September 2005:
Interview
by Ivan Monroy of Mexico City in text zine (Spanish).
August 2005:
review
of dbcinema.
another
review of dbcinema.
dbcinema
(in progress).
June 2005:
A review of Doom 3 in
English and Portuguese.
June 2005:
Vispo.com
hosts PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East).
The Co-directors of PRIME, Sami Adwan, a Palestinian, and
Dan Bar-On, an Israeli, were recently awarded the inaugural
IIE Goldberg prize by the International Institute for Education
for their mighty peace-building work in Palestine and Israel.
November 2004:
Nov 24: The
Stir Fry Texts and Enigma n now run on both PC and Mac on most
contemporary browsers.
Nov 20: "Digital
Writing Circa 2004" republished on Noema (Bologna, Italy).
Nov 12: On Lionel
Kearns launched at turbulence.org (New
York) and vispo. Reviewed
by Geof
Huth (New York) and Karen
Wagner (Denmark).
October 2004:
Oct 1: Translations
into Finnish of Seattle Drift, Enigma n, Millenium Lyric, and
Time Piece. These are four DHTML pieces from 1997-2000. The
translations were written by Marko Niemi for the fall 2004
issue of Lumooja magazine from Helsinki/Turku. Marko updated
the code, also, so that now these pieces run on Netscape and
Firefox as well as IE (PC only).
Oct 1: Song
Shapes and ound pome. Additions to
the Nio project.
Sept 2004:
Sept 15: Interview
by Dakota Reese Brown with me about Arteroids. Dakota
also wrote a review of Arteroids.
Sept 29: ound
poem and na na ound poem.
August 2004:
August 24: Added
a script for Director developers. This script recursively calculates
C(n,r), P(n,r), and n!. In other words, it provides the basic
tools for combinatorial calculations.
July 2004:
July 30: "Digital
Writing Circa 2004" (essay). Written for my visit
to England in July 2004.
May 2004:
May 23: The
Idea Of Order at Key West -- an audio re-ordering of the venerable
Wallace Stevens (2.9 mb).
May 22: An
article on dynamic sprite creation/destruction in Windows
for Shockwave.
May 20: Released
Windows for Shockwave 4.8
March 2004:
Arteroids
is shown in Machine gallery in Los Angeles March 1 - March 14.
January 2004:
Did a collaborative offline piece with Steve Gibson and Randy
Adams called the Blitbopper. It reacts visually to a MIDI feed.
This was in the new media section of the Victoria
International Film and Video Festival
December 2003:
December 22: David
Daniels wrote "Jim
Andrews" as part of his "Humans"
project.
November 2003:
November 27: Ted
Warnell has done one of his "active desktops" based
on my piece "Arteroids". Um, look at the source code.
I think it consists of parts of the Arteroids executable. It's
entitled "Phics_poet". I'm honored. Arteroids is kind
of Tederoidal in an odd way; "Phics_poet"
is arteroidal in Ted's original way.
November 25: Windows
for Shockwave 4.0 launched. This is a tool I wrote for Director
developers.
October 2003:
October 5: "Arteroids,
Poetry, and the Flaw", thoughts on Arteroids.
September 2003:
September 20: "Interactive
Audio for the Web", an essay/review of several works
on the Web, and lots of links. Published on trAce from Britain,
edited by Randy Adams.
August 2003:
August 2: I am proud to say that
there is now a mirror of Ana Maria Uribe's site on vispo.com.
Ana Maria is from Buenos Aires in Argentina and is one of my
favorite poets.
June 2003:
June 25: Director-Online.com
published a (technical) article I wrote, an overview of Windows
for Shockwave 3.0.
June 23: Arteroids
2.5. New audio feature.
May 2003:
May 14: A new (faster)
search engine for vispo.com.
May 1-14: I'm
featured in the soft-skinned space in discussion about digital
poetry.
April 2003:
April 4: Assorted
bug fixes to Arteroids, now at v2.04.
April 2: Chuck
Neal of mediamacros.com wrote a review of Windows For Shockwave
3.0, my set of drag and drop behaviors for Director developers.
March 2003:
March 30: I
participated in a panel discussion in Vancouver at the Surrey
Art Gallery on net.art and Kate Armstrong's new piece. She's
artist in residence at the Surrey Gallery.
February 2003:
February 16: Paris
Connection is a big project in critical media that I co-produced
with four sites around the world. It concentrates on essays about,
interviews with, and links to the work of six Parisian artists
doing multimedia work for the Web with diversity and elan. Presented
in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
January 2003:
January 4: This
is an experiment in audio programming. It uses "Black
Coffee"
and "Stardust" by Sarah Vaughn. There are 25 sounds
from
"Stardust", ie, all of the song. There are 13 sounds
from
"Black Coffee" and you hear it less frequently.
December 2002:
December 5: Windows
For Shockwave 3.0 is a set of drag and drop behaviors for
Director Developers that allows easy creation of onstage
windows, cascading menus, multi-sprite objects, and good
cursor control. It's for sale for $29.99 (USD).
December 1: Blue
Hyacinth is a stir fry text collaboration with Pauline Masurel.
October 2002:
October 24: Regina
Célia Pinto and Carmen Penido have translated into
Portuguese my essay "Games, Play, Po, Art, and Arteroids
2.03". And Regina has translated large portions of the
Arteroids interface into Portuguese. And Regina has done
an interview with me about Arteroids and my working methods
and background. All of this, in English and Portuguese, is
reachable from the link.
August 2002:
August 21: Enigma
n2. Turn up the sound. 130 kb download. This
is related to a 1998 piece I did called Enigma
n
August 9: "Games,
Po, Play, Art, and Arteroids 2.02". This essay attempts
to condense my thoughts on these subjects from the last year
and a half. It's a 650 kb download; it has a copy of Arteroids
embedded in it.
July 2002:
July 16: Internet
Art (2002): Matt Mirapaul of the NY Times on WBEZ in Chicago
(Real Audio) interviewed by Victoria Lautman concerning
Nio, Mark Napier's work, and the 'road to acceptance'. Except
that 'acceptance' is not really the goal. Instead, the idea
is to blow your mind out of its socket. It isn't so much
that the work comes to be 'accepted' over time as understood
over time. If the work is good, then it will bleed future.
An enhanced literacy of the sensorium. And if that literacy
is useful, as it may be, then the work will play and be understood,
and carried to some other level somewhere, some time else.
Toward an expanded multi-sensorial literacy. I make human
language machines that sing and textualize voco-graphically
at length. I attempt to make them resonate through the sensorium
and various dimensions of language. I presume computer communications
will continue to proliferate throughout society. This is
toward literacy and vision using the computer. And a re-write
of digital literature.
July 7: Arteroids
2.0 is a literary computer game for the Web.
June 2002:
June 12: Material
Combinatorium Supremum is an essay on very large literary
combinatoria. It's about a poem with more permutations
than there are atoms in the universe.
June 9: Full
Screen Templates. This is a tool for Web developers who want
to launch projects full screen. An example use of this
template is how Arteroids can
launch fullscreen..
May 2002:
May 6: Profiles
and interviews with three European Web.artists: Michiel Knaven
(Holland); Reiner Strasser (Germany); and Stanza (England). These
writings of mine are published on turbulence.org out of New York.
April 2002:
April 7:
An article on my piece called Nio: Jeder
Nutzer ein Komponist - die audio-visuelle Poesie des Jim Andrews by
Berlin's Roberto Simanowski. This article appears in the main
newspaper of Frankfurt, Germany. Click "Suche"
at top right and search for 'Jim Andrews'.
March 2002:
March 26: Shuen-shing
Lee has written an article called "The
Interlaced Poetics of Representation and Simulation" that
discusses Arteroids, my literary computer game for the Web,
and work by other artists.
March 26: I've
put up some new songs and mp3 versions of some that were
already up.
February 2002:
Feb 25: Germany's
Roberto Simanowski has written an article on my work at his
site dichtung.digital.de called "Fighting/Dancing Words:
Jim Andrews' Kinetic, Concrete Audiovisual Poetry" and
done an interview with me called "Becoming A Full-Time
Web Artist".
January 2002:
Jan 5: Windows
for Shockwave 2.0. Downloadable dragndrop behaviors for Shockwave
developers that makes up for the lack of MIAW support in
Shockwave.
December 2001:
Dec 4: arteroids
1.0 has launched in issue 11 of theremediproject.com.
arteroids is a literary computer game for the Web.
Dec 3: All
my downloadable Director code.
September 2001:
September 28 : I've
been volunteering to build a site for PRIME, the Peace Research
Institute in the Middle East
August 2001:
August 31: I've
released the Nio source code.
August 29: There's
an interview of me and a link to Nio at Steve Tanza's excellent
soundtoys.net, which features works by many artists exploring
interactive audio for the Web and the desktop.
August 18: I've
started a new list called Director_Art for the discussion
of works of art made with Director by practicing artists.
Unlike Direct-L, this is not primarily a technical discussion
list, but a forum for discussion and sharing of art, files,
insights and, yes, technical information.
August 4: My
work is featured at the Information Technology Association
of Canada. This will hopefully provide biz contacts to develop
the interactive audio ideas with businesses.
July 2001:
July 31: I'll
be going to the Banff Center for the Arts Aug 25-29 for their
Human Generosity summitt. The event is concerned with collaborative
software. I will either talk about my plans for the collabarative
aspects of the interactive audio, or will discuss the notion
of distributing the source code for the interactive audio
via a set of dragndroppable behaviorsand the surrounding
context.
July 13: Hey, I got a $20,000 grant from
the Canada Council to pursue the interactive audio!
July 4: Shuen-shing Lee has done some amazing
'translations' of my work into Chinese. He's done some wonderful
work with Enigma
n and Spas
Text, one of the stir fry texts. Shuen-shing also translated Seattle
Drift some time ago. He's had his translations published
online at The
Literary Cafe, a website co-sponsored by The United News's
Literary Supplementary and the Taiwan government's Council
for Cultural Affairs. Shuen-shing
posted an interesting introduction to the translations on webartery,
and there's a thread of discussion on webartery primarily concerning
his translation of Enigma n, so far.
May 2001:
May 1: Nio
is added to the rhizome.org artbase
April 2001:
April 29: "No
Ideas But In Products" published on Bill Marsh's factoryschool.org.
Wow, was the e-poetry festival ever a blast.
April 15: Gone
to Buffalo for the E-Poetry 2001 Conference. Will show Nio
there and meet lots of people I've been in correspondence
with for years.
April 9: Nio
is site of the week at sonify.org.
April 1: Nio
launched at turbulence.org. This is the most extensive work
for the Web I've done so far. Interactive audio/visual. Requires
Shockwave 8.
March 2001:
March 19: The
Pornomorphs and other work published at Web del Sol's Artifacts
site.
March 17: I've
added three very different versions of a great original song
I was proud to play drums on with my friends Keith McMaster,
Steve Lewty, and Cliff Syringe. It's ironically titled The
Green Hills of Home (it's about a gritty smelter town). Requires
the Real Player.
March 15: Jam
on Cook Street by the Laughing Boot Quintet. I was the drummer.
All but myself are very talented musicians. I was very proud
to play with these musicians.
November 2000:
November 17: Oppen
Do Down; an interactive audio piece. Turn on the speakers.
Requires Shockwave 8.
October 2000:
October 9: A
new form of music? You be the judge.Vismu is coming along
great. Many new features added and running quite smoothly. Requires
speakers and Shockwave 8.
September 2000:
September 7: Question
Answered (morph)
September 6: I've
put one of my favorite essays up on the site: George Orwell's "Politics
and the English Language".
September 5: Defib:
Steve Duffy (England)
September 4: Defib:
Mez (Australia)
September 3: Defib:
Jack Kimball (USA)
August 2000:
August 31: The
Webartery Chat Network is now up and running. The idea of
this project is that Web artists put on their sites a page
that allows users to link to a common chat room. Check it
out.
July 2000:
July 14: Have
put my shingle out : my resume is up.
July 10: "Log",
a collaborative stir fry text, is up at Ubu.com.
July 7: Worked
my last day of work at Network Commerce Inc. Worked there
three and a half years. It was a gas. But now I'm going to
do multimedia development full time. Hooked on it. Gots to
do it full time. Currently I'm writing my little brain out
developing Vismu (visual music). Too much fun.
June 2000:
June 12: "Log,"
a collaborative stir fry text with Brian Lennon, is up at Vispo.
Brian wrote the text for this piece specially as a stir
fry.
April 2000:
April 20: Defib:
Loss Glazier
March 2000:
Mar 27: Defib:
David Knoebel
Mar 19: Defib:
MECHANICALBRIDE: conceptual art at Defib by Ted Warnell
Mar 9: Defib:
Carolyn Guertin
Mar 5: THE
FIST: In support of the Yugoslavian student resistance to
Milosevic's government. Put THE FIST on your Web site to
support their important work.
February 2000:
Feb 29: Defib:
Riding the MeridianWomen and Technology
Feb 29: fierce.com
site of the day
Feb 18: Komninos
Konstantinos Zervos at Defib.
January 2000:
Jan 30: Time
Piece (second in Time Suite). Requires Internet Explorer.
Jan 25: The
canned version of the live Defib show on Reiner Strasser.
Jan 16: Rude
Little Song (requires Shockwave plugin and sound card).
Jan 1: Field
Theory for a l y r i c m a i l e r, the canned version of
the live Defib show for Dec 19.
December, 1999:
Dec 19: morph
of Penis Unix and Madame Ovary. Dec 17: Webartery
members participating in Defib. This is the canned version
of the Dec 5/99 show on Miekal And. Dec 13: "The
egg word of Ur exercising" (morph) is in the Infoanimism
essay. Prefers simply to be called egg word. Dec 4: Defib
featured William Marsh on November 21. This is the canned
version of that live chat session in conversation with Bill. Dec
2: Millenium
Lyric is the first of several poems in a suite. Currently
this one requires Internet Explorer 4 or later, though I
hope to make a Netscape version
November, 1999:
Nov 30: The Pen: more
depth. Nov 29: Enigma
n: More enigma Nov 21: Two new visual poems: W and Zzzzzzzzzz in Ã.
Nov 19: A hypertranscript
of the Defib show on the work of Claire Dinsmore. Nov
7: Defib, which is a live
Web artist interview show I host and organize at webartery.com,
launched Oct 17/99. We've just finished the first hypertranscript
of that show, which featured Talan Memmott.
October, 1999:
Oct 18: An
essay/letter to Steven Heighton called "The Frame, Nominalism,
and Platonism in Literary Judgement" in the Writings
section. Oct 10: A new pop up poem. Oct 5: Two half-hour
audio files, one great performance by Victoria's Paul McKinnon: Wake
Up and Smell the Bus Depot.
September, 1999:
Sept 6: Vispo
is now serving audio! First up is the amazing poetry of Joseph
F. Keppler.
August, 1999:
Aug 22: Several
old poems newly published on the Web: Lower Yates at Midnight
(the first poem I kept), Walk in Streetlight (written the
same summer), Hands, Second and Third Snow, and The Meeting
Place II. They are all in PDF format and are in the Writings
section of Vispo. Also, an old essay in the Writings section,
Notes Toward an Essay on the Unspeakable. Aug 21: Two
new essays: Stir Frys
and Cut Ups and Architecture
and the Literary among the stir fry project on cut ups.
Aug 7: Correspondence,
a Stir Fry text in collaboration with Talan Memmott, Mary
Phillips, and Lee Worden. Aug 5: Webartery.com exists
but is not launched yet in its first manifestotion. Still
lots of work ahead of us.
July, 1999:
July 26: Strings,
a Flash project by Dan Waber in the Guests section.
July 14: The Stir Fry
Texts are in development, currently, but here are a couple
of finished ones. July 10: Several
essays in PDF format from my manuscript Several Numbers
Through the Lyric have been added to the writings section.
July 9: B
Bopping
June, 1999:
June 6: I finished a manuscript for a book
in 1996 called Several Numbers Through the Lyric that's wide-ranging
over essays, poems, stories, letters, and visual poems. I've
started to publish it here in PDF files. Please see Writings for
more information. All the PDF's in Writings are
from this manuscript.
May, 1999:
Bought vispo.com. Bought a word. Bought
a domain. Working on Vispo 2.0 which I launched this month.
Have been working on this redesign of speakeasy.org/~jandrews
for a couple of months. Basic idea is each piece gets its own
page, no more gallery motif, and use simpler (not frame-based)
navigation to claim more space for composition. Also, trying
to design for the future: less on each page, more focussed,
but also will accomodate any size of screen (mostly) except
640.
April, 1999:
Bill
Marsh review of Enigma
n and Infoanimism .
Cloud Fire at Vispo and Weak
Blood.
March,
1999:
ABC Architecture at Vispo and Weak
Blood. Visualanguage completed. Infoanimism completed.
November,
1998:
Webartery
email list started. Visual poetry show in
Victoria. Visual show at
The Globe in Seattle came down this month. Enigma
n completed, mentioned at Zine
n and featured in Macromedia's DHTML Zone Spotlight (their
DHTML Zone is now defunct). Digital
Langu(im)age up at Web del Sol's Perihelion site. Some
pieces were published in a very strong "volume" of writing
called Poetries
of Canada. It's perhaps the first such Web volume of the
Canadian wired writers.
I published work by Uruguay's Clemente
Padín.
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