artport gatepage Oct. 05: John F.Simon, Jr. -- A Look Inside "Mobility Agents"

The October 05 gatepage
for artport, the Whitney Museum's portal to Internet art
features
A Look Inside "Mobility Agents"
by John F. Simon, Jr.
http://artport.whitney.org

The 6 applets featured on the artport gatepage are excerpts from "Mobility =
Agents" – an artist book and software project by John F. Simon, Jr. that i=
s co-published this month by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Printed=
Matter, Inc. The 6 applets function as code improvisations and software dr=
awing tools, which are (together with many others) available for exploratio=
n in "Mobility Agents." The artist's book and software CD traces the develo=
pment of John Simon's dynamic drawing tools: influenced by the notebooks of=
Paul Klee, Simon transformed diagrams of moving lines into software drawin=
g tools. The software is an electronic book ending with a fully functional =
drawing program.

John Simon's work will be featured this month in a solo museum exhibition a=
t The Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana. His work has been included in th=
e Whitney Museum's 2000 Biennial and "Bitstreams" (2001), and he received t=
he Aldrich Museum Trustee's Award for an Emerging Artist in the fall of 200=
0. His software panel works have been collected by the Whitney Museum of Am=
erican Art; the Guggenheim Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; an=
d the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.