I'd appreciate people's input on my newest net-art project. It's called Stillman, and it's at http://stillman.to/ . It's sort of an homage to Paul Auster's "City of Glass", combined with the accidental linking dynamic of a Wiki. I wanted to create a textual space where people can vaguely track the movements of others by seeing where they've added texts themselves.
Like some of my other stuff, it's much more semantic than visual … As a writer it's a direction I like, though it can make for some crummy screenshots.
F.
request for comments: Stillman
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Mark pointed me to Lisa Jevbratt's "A Stillman Project", from 1998. Shows me what I get for not doing my homework.
http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/jevbratt/
It's interesting, reading her interview and thinking about my own process and seeing how two people can start from the same place and end up with completely different works. Lisa seems interested in showing users the overall formulation of a sort of collaborative filtering process. (The work itself doesn't seem to be operating now.)
Personally, I was interested in Stillman's wanderings, and Quinn's wanderings, trying to make some sort of sense out of a geography that you can't see all at once. For example, at stillman.to you can't bookmark individual pages in my work and come back to them later. You have to start at the front, every time. A kind of session-managed authorial fascism, if you will.
Francis