In the spirit of open collaboration, several media artists from around the world have agreed to work together using open source blogging software to present and remix audio pieces, Flash animations, digital images, visual poetry and texts. The remix can be viewed as an online journal of digital art and writing – alive and media rich. It is a place for discovery and exploration – we learn from one another. The remix started in November 2006 and has grown to include over 300 individual works of media art. Most of the pieces use material already on the site. All source code is made available and each work references the source material. New material is sometimes posted, but it is usually related conceptually to other remix pieces.
Three members of the remix will present work developed from material on the blog. Entitled The Devil’s Rope Journal (an irregular journal with barbs at regular intervals), Randy Adams (Can), babel (Can/UK) and Christine Wilks (UK) will screen, perform and discuss the material, which will include a CD pre-release.
Presenter Bios
babel aka Chris Joseph is a British/Canadian writer and artist who works primarily with electronic text, audio and image; editor of the post-dada magazine and network 391.org, and a founding member of the 404, a group of digital and traditional artists working with new medias and the internet. He is presently Digital Artist in Residence, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Monfort University, Leicester, UK.
crissxross aka Christine Wilks creates works for the web and occasionally live performance and installation. She also writes fiction, screenplays and has made a number of short films and videos. As a freelancer, she designs and produces e-learning resources and courses, and teaches creative media workshops.
runran aka Randy Adams is a Canadian media artist, with a background in creative writing, journalism and visual arts. His photography and mixed media work has been exhibited and collected by public galleries, museums, and archives. Over the past 20 years, he has been awarded several grants for both writing and photography. For the past decade he has extended his practice into the digital arts, fashioning hypermedia and animations for the web and live performance. From 2002 through 2006 he served as Associate Editor for the trAce Online Writing Centre, based at the Nottingham Trent University in England, commissioning and editing reviews of digital writing and new media. He has presented creative work online for 10 years using the nom de plume runran.
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Selected Media
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November 28th, 2007 at 12:55 am
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
[…] and gossip there is an ongoing documentation page on the IF07 site. Christine Wilks (part of our “Devil’s Journal” CD/performance trio) has also written a great report of the event […]
February 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm
The Devil’s Rope Journal is now available for download in zip format, including versions for both Mac and PC.
April 12th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
[…] its inception in November 2006, R3//1X//0RX has been presented at IF07 (The New Screen), featured at JavaMuseum –> a+b=ba?, and we dropped several pieces into the Digital Fringe. Three […]
June 8th, 2008 at 3:20 am
[…] be attending Interactive Futures in Canada next week to take part in a live presentation of The Devil’s Rope Journal (an irregular journal with barbs at regular intervals) with Randy Adams (aka runran) and Chris Joseph (aka babel). The Devil’s Rope has developed […]