February 15, 2005
Turbulence Commission: "Grafik Dynamo" by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett
http://turbulence.org/works/dynamo/index.html
"Grafik Dynamo" is a net art work that loads live images from blogs and
news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is
currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by
narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought
bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic
web content opens up the genre in a new way: together, the images and
narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and
expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each
other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing. The
work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a
new hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal
parameter that comprises its structure.
"Grafik Dynamo" is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts,
Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible
with funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
BIOGRAPHIES
KATE ARMSTRONG is a new media artist and writer who has lived and worked
in Canada, France, Japan, Scotland, and the United States. Her work
focuses on the creation of experimental narrative forms, particularly
works in which poetics are inserted within the functional framework of
computer programs, and performative pieces in which computer
functionality is merged with physical space. Armstrong has worked with a
variety of forms including short films, theatre, essays, net art,
performative network events, psychogeography and installation. Her work
has been exhibited internationally. She has written for P.S 1/MoMA, the
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, TrAce, Year Zero One, and The
Thing, as well as for catalogue publications. Armstrong's first book,
"Crisis & Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture," was published in 2002.
MICHAEL TIPPETT has a decade of experience creating and managing
technology businesses. With expertise in design, namespace, distributed
and mobile media, and wireless technology, Tippett's media background is
in pioneering new forms of networked content. His newest venture,
NowPublic.com, uses emerging technologies like camera phones, digital
cameras, blogging tools and RSS standards to change the way news is
created and distributed. It can be thought of as "reality news" -
providing a hub for citizen reporting and for viewing world events
though the prism of an alternate, distributed, real time media.
For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org
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Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog and Conference: http://turbulence.org/blog
Turbulence Commission: "Grafik Dynamo" by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett
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Type: discussion
Comments
That's quite interesting, Kate and Michael. Could you say something about
the texts; there's the upper and lower texts…how were they composed–I
presume Kate wrote or assembled the texts? Also, the visuals plus the
thought bubbles are much better visually than I would have expected with
something dynamic textually.
Gotta say I prefer this to standard comics.
ja
February 15, 2005
Turbulence Commission: "Grafik Dynamo" by Kate Armstrong and Michael
Tippett
http://turbulence.org/works/dynamo/index.html
"Grafik Dynamo" is a net art work that loads live images from blogs and
news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is
currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by
narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought
bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web
content opens up the genre in a new way: together, the images and narrative
serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the
reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly
in sync, and always moving and changing. The work takes an experimental
approach to open ended narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow of
data animating the work and the formal parameter that comprises its
structure.
I also really like the Roy Lichtenstein reference and would also like to
hear a little more about the texts, whether they are gathered or written
specifically for the work.
Pall
Jim Andrews wrote:
> That's quite interesting, Kate and Michael. Could you say something about
> the texts; there's the upper and lower texts…how were they composed–I
> presume Kate wrote or assembled the texts? Also, the visuals plus the
> thought bubbles are much better visually than I would have expected with
> something dynamic textually.
>
> Gotta say I prefer this to standard comics.
>
> ja
> February 15, 2005
> Turbulence Commission: "Grafik Dynamo" by Kate Armstrong and Michael
> Tippett
> http://turbulence.org/works/dynamo/index.html
>
> "Grafik Dynamo" is a net art work that loads live images from blogs and
> news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The work is
> currently using a feed from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by
> narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought
> bubbles and randomly displayed. Animating the comic strip using dynamic web
> content opens up the genre in a new way: together, the images and narrative
> serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the
> reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly
> in sync, and always moving and changing. The work takes an experimental
> approach to open ended narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow of
> data animating the work and the formal parameter that comprises its
> structure.
>
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