NEWS: Chatterbot Modeled After Conceptual Artist Back Online Since 2002!
Wittbott711, the Chatterbot modeled after the Conceptual Art legend, Sol Le Witt, is now back online for the first time since "he" premiered at the Liberarti Arts Festival in Liverpool in 2002.
Originally reverse-engineered by Jeremy Turner using LeWitt's "Sentences on Conceptual Art" (1969), has now found a virtual bot-sitter named Karen Roff (K1101001).
For more info about Wittbott711, please go to
http://www.liberarti.org/view.php?action=view_item&item32258240
To visit and chat with Wittbott711 on "his" new turf, go to Karen Roff's Bot Table page at:
http://k1101001.tripod.com/Bot_Table.htm
Link:
http://www.liberarti.org/view
Jeremy Owen Turner [b. 1974, Victoria, B.C. - Canada] has been a Rhizome member on and off since 2002 (a paying member since 2004). He works as a Digital Archivist, Art-Historian, Avatar Performance Artist and Net Researcher. His degree from the University of Victoria was in Art-History and Music Composition.
As "Wirxli FlimFlam", Turner has just co-formed a new avatar performance art group in Second Life called Second Front - http://www.slfront.blogspot.com
He has completed a contract about Telecommunications Art-History (the Slow-Scan TV Video-conferencing art-scene) on behalf of the Open Space Arts Society in Victoria, Canada.
http://www.openspace.ca/outerspace
He is also an interdisciplinary artist, writer , composer and curator. He is a Co-Founder of the 536 Media Collective in Vancouver. On behalf of 536, Turner worked with the iKatun Collective (Boston) and Jessica Loseby (U.K.) to form the Digital Pocket Gallery.
http://www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery/
In addition, he is a Co-Producer of the very first Machinima Documentary, "AVATARA". The other Producers are Donato Mancini and Flick Harrison.
http://members.shaw.ca/flickharrison/avatara/
To date, he has conducted interviews , posted blogs and written articles about innovations in New Media for: C-Theory, Shift, Intelligent Agent, Nanodot.org (Foresight Institute), Eyebeam.org, Eventcasters (AOL Canada), Extropy, Rhizome, Offbeat and Front Magazine.
He is on the Board of Editors for the Digital Salvage Online Journal hosted by Trace Reddel at the University of Denver, Colorado.
He occasionally lectures about Digital Aesthetics and Net-Art strategies at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
His current interests include Avatars, Bots, and Nanotechnology.
Jeremy lives and works in Vancouver.
Please click the resume link to view his outdated CV.
Also, if you like cutting-edge Avatar bands, check out The Gates and The Hotmails http://www.techworlds.org/thegates.htm
http://www.thehotmails.com
His main art blogs are:
http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com
http://www.ontodistro.blogspot.com
http://www.rolandquagmire.blogspot.com
http://www.voiceoffire.blogspot.com
http://www.fafftopia.blogspot.com
http://www.irwinziizzw.blogspot.com
Also, he has an additional profile and video on the Saatchi Gallery website: http://video.saatchigallery.com/artist/profile/11301/Jeremy+O+Turner/JeremyOTurner.html
E-mail: jerturner536@yahoo.ca - ideatron@gmail.com
John R Math