Re: MAGAZINE
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION WITH MARK EDWARD GRIMM
UNDECISIVE CONTEXTS [pdf]
The net establishes its significance as artistic medium no longer in specialized communities but has become dispersed more and more into contexts commonly assigned to the "classical" art business. Issue #006 of Re: MAGAZINE deals with the artistic work of Mark E. Grimm which—covering different contexts evaluated by conventional criterias—could be considered as undecisive. The collaborative work in and outside the net, the study of the working processes and the transfer of net-related working methods into real life are all practices deliberately dealt with as artistic statements but rarely leave material-related marks. Perhaps we observe here the reversal of the 90’ s Californian Ideology and its "Second Life": the reality is not subordinated to the net but the net turns with its constant use into a part of the reality. [Conducted by carlos katastrofsky]
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#005 Re:
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION WITH MARY-ANNE BREEZE
VERSATILE M[C]O[MMUNICATION]DALITY [pdf]
mez, netwurker, data[h!]bleeder, ms post modemism, mezflesque.exe, ova.kill, net.w][ho][urker, Purrsonal Areah Netwurker, Phonet][r][ix ... The pseudomyms of the Australian Internet artist Mary-Anne Breeze are as multifaceted and multilayered as is her artistic work. In issue #005 of Re: MAGAZINE Mary-Anne Breeze talks about her own language of artistic creation called mezangelle which is composed by the playful use of aspects of form and content like orthography, semantics and punctuation and mixed with the hybrid use of segmented code and programming languages, Internet-slang and literary texts. In her own words, her works "r never really finished; they kinda hang together in a faux_fixed state, rdy.4.the.next.incarnation." [Conducted by Franz Thalmair]
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#004 Re:
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT RETTBERG
CURATING AMBIGUITY [pdf]
In autumn 2006 the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) released the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, including selected works in New Media forms such as Hypertext Fiction, Kinetic Poetry, generative and combinatory forms, Network Writing, Codework, 3D, and Narrative Animations. One of the main common characteristics of Web-based literary products is that they often can be read (or viewed, listened, played with, used) in multifaceted ways. Accordingly the curation of Electronic Literature is challenged by ambiguity and heterogeneity on different levels. In issue #004 of Re: MAGAZINE Scott Rettberg—co-curator of the anthology and co-founder of the ELO—talks about different ways of contextualising, representing and archiving Electronic Literature: The more context, the more documentation available to the reader, the better. [Conducted by Franz Thalmair]
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#003 Re:
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION WITH MIA MAKELA (a.k.a. SOLU)
LIVE CINEMA [pdf]
Depending on how you set the boundaries, Live Cinema could be anything—from the visuals of the VJ in the club last night to sophisticated realtime performances based on complex interaction between musicians and visual artists at renowned festivals. Generally it may be defined as a recently coined term for realtime audiovisual performances. In issue #003 of Re: MAGAZINE, Solu (a.k.a. Mia Makela)—an active Live Cinema performer—talks about her thesis with the title Live Cinema: Language and Elements investigating the principles of this genre. [Conducted by carlos katastrofsky]
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#002 Re:
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION WITH THE AMAZON NOIR TEAM
THE BIG BOOK (C)RIME [pdf]
About one year after the release of Google Will Eat Itself the artists Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, Hans Bernhard and Lizvlx (both UBERMORGEN.COM) foxed out Amazon.com, the second global Internet player. The results of the Media/Art-event Amazon Noir—The Big Book Crime were presented on the 15th of November 2006. Issue #003 of Re: MAGAZINE deals with the actual discussion of property rights for non-material goods and their use/violation by new technologies on the Internet. [Conducted by Franz Thalmair]
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#001 Re:
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION WITH JEREMY HIGHT
POSSIBILITIES IN LOCATIVE MEDIA [pdf]
Issue #001 of Re: MAGAZINE deals with the phenomenon of Locative Media—recently becoming more popular in Media Art discourses—which has roots dating back to the dawn of history. Early myths like the Gilgamesch Epic or—more specific—Homer's Odyssee deal with issues of location and the recording of movement on earth's surface. Developments since then include mediaeval cartography as well as the Situationists' approach to mapping a city. Nowadays Locative Media uses technology to trigger artworks in a specific physical space. Jeremy Hight is one of the artists behind /34 nort 118 west/—the first locative narrative—and author of /narrative archaeology: reading the landscape/, a text that was recently named one of the four primary texts in locative media in Leonardo, the renowned online journal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [Conducted by carlos katastrofsky]
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#000 Re:
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATIONS MAGAZINE
BY CONT3XT.NET (Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl, Franz Thalmair)
Re: MAGAZINE is an editorial project by the Vienna-based platform CONT3XT.NET. It was set up in 2006 by Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl (a.k.a. carlos katstrofsky) and Franz Thalmair to investigate general tendencies within Internet-based Culture and Art. Drawing its title from simple e-mail communication, the reply button of any e-mail programme is thought to open the discourse on a specific theme and can be expanded arbitrarily ...
