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Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books & Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-8114 bennett.23@osu.edu ___________________________________________ From: Peter von Brandenburg Subject: [Fwd: DWG Needed! 4622] {inscrutable spam} Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:47:26 -0500 --------------3DCA8E70B74E5B9657B04289 --------------3DCA8E70B74E5B9657B04289 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Delivered-To: blackhawk@thing.net Return-Path: Delivered-To: webmail.thing.net-blackhawk@webmail.thing.net Received: (qmail 31250 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2002 01:30:28 -0000 Received: from thing.net (209.227.54.3) by the.thing.net with SMTP; 24 Nov 2002 01:30:28 -0000 Received: from johnson.mail.mindspring.net (johnson.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.177]) by thing.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gAO1NwI06591 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:23:58 -0500 Received: from bissell.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.198]) by johnson.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18FlbO-0001qo-00 for blackhawk@thing.net; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:30:26 -0500 X-MindSpring-Loop: pterseus@mindspring.com Received: from idaho.etrafficers.com ([128.121.224.100]) by bissell.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with ESMTP id 18fLBo3I63Nl3rE0 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:30:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (idaho@localhost) by idaho.etrafficers.com (8.11.6) id gAO1UNl63838; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:30:23 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:30:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200211240130.gAO1UNl63838@idaho.etrafficers.com> To: pterospermous@schwartz.com, pterpan@netscape.net, pterr3@msn.com, pterra@netscape.net, pterrace@bigfoot.com, pterrell@geocities.com, pterrigno@netscape.net, pterrill@netscape.net, pterry2521@netscape.net, pterry4524@netscape.net, pterry@adelphia.net, pterry@clds.net, pterry@enteract.com, pterry@flash.net, pterry@jps.net, pterrydactyl@netscape.net, pterseus@mindspring.com, pterwee@netscape.net, pterwil1@netscape.net, pterwill@netscape.net, pterygota@bellsouth.net, pteryx@home.com From: gmorris@erols.com () Subject: DWG Needed! 4622 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.9 required=7.0 tests=SUSPICIOUS_RECIPS,VERY_SUSP_RECIPS,PLING,SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: **** X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Hello, If you are a Time Traveler I am going to need the following: 1. 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From: pascale gustin Subject: iro N iqu-e Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:45:32 +0100 c-e s----------------------------witch -[ilence] -on/.oFF -t-l-es:d- a-t-|||| .iFF ---->(t) e rEnts no+euds -d undesprem-iersystèmedécr-iturees-t lécritu-remnémote-chniq-ueetsynthét iro N i [c] qu-e de co(lors) f----+---ar:be)ul.e\urs w qui pROv-------------> ---------O[que]nt l e s-ens/sne-> <- <- <- ->S From: Alan Sondheim Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:59:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: periodic note === Internet Philosophy and Psychology - 11/26/02 (last was 08/02/02) My recent work has been dealing with sexuality, terror, death, windows onto worlds, the confluence of subtropical nature with subsumption neural architectures. I have also been working on a series of 3D animations (mixed with real-life video), pieces exploring the same themes in extreme or extended spaces. An extended video, Trilby, was produced; more recent videos include a Scan series, and Alberta.mov. (All available reduced on cdrom.) === This is a somewhat periodic notice describing my Internet Text, available on the Net, and sent in the form of texts to various lists. The URLs are http://www.asondheim.org and http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt/ which is partially mirrored at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html. See http://www.asondheim.org/portal/ for new video/imagework; please note this is for over-18/ The changing nature of the email lists, Cybermind and Wryting, to which almost all of the texts are sent individually, hides the full body of the work; readers may not be aware of the continuity among them. The writing may appear fragmented, created piecemeal, splintered from a non-existent whole. On my end, the whole is evident, the texts extended into the lists, partial or transitional objects. So this (periodic) notice is an attempt to recuperate the work as total- ity, restrain its diaphanous existence. Below is an updated introduction. ----- The "Internet Text" currently constitutes around 100 files, or 10,000 printed pages. It began in 1994, and has continued as an extended meditation on cyberspace, expanding into 'wild theory' and literatures, symptomologies of the edge. Almost all of the text is in the form of short- or long-waves. The former are the individual sections, written in a variety of styles, at times referencing other writers/theorists. The sections are interrelated; on occasion emanations are used, avatars of philosophical or psychological import. These also create and problematize narrative substructures within the work as a whole. Such are Susan Graham, Julu, Alan, Jennifer, Azure, and Nikuko in particular. The long-waves are fuzzy thematics bearing on such issues as death, sexuality, virtual embodiment, the "granularity of the real," physical reality, computer languages, and protocols. The waves weave throughout the text; the resulting splits and convergences owe something to phenomenology, programming, deconstruction, linguistics, philosophy and prehistory, as well as the domains of online worlds in relation to everyday realities. Overall, I'm concerned with virtual-real subjectivity and its manifesta- tions. I continue working on a cdrom of the last eight years of my work (Archive), as well as a series of 3d animation and other videos, some of which are on cdrom. I have used MUDS, MOOS, talkers, perl, d/html, qbasic, linux, emacs, vi, CuSeeMe, etc., my work tending towards embodied writing, texts which act and engage beyond traditional reading practices. Some of these emerge out of performative language - soft-tech such as computer programs which _do_ things; some emerge out of interferences with these programs, or conversa- tions using internet applications that are activated one way or another. And some of the work stems from collaboration, particularly video, sound, and flash pieces. There is no binarism in the texts, no series of definitive statements. Virtuality is considered beyond the text- and web-scapes prevalent now. The various issues of embodiment that will arrive with full-real VR are already in embryonic existence, permitting the theorizing of present and future sites, "spaces," nodes, and modalities of body/speech/community. The texts are roughly in the order written; the last-entered at the moment is mq. They may be read in any order, and distributed in any medium; please credit me. I would appreciate in return any comments you may have. For information on the availability of cdroms containing the text and other materials (graphics, video, sound, articles, books), see the appen- ded notice below. You can find my collaborative projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm and my conference activities at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk - both as a result of my virtual writer-in-residence with the Trace online writing community. See also: .echo, Alt-X, e-book and publish-on-demand, 2002 Being on Line, Net Subjectivity (anthology), Lusitania, 1997 New Observations Magazine #120 (anthology), Cultures of Cyberspace, 1998 The Case of the Real, Pote and Poets Press, 1998 Jennifer, Nominative Press Collective, 1997 Alan Sondheim 718-857-3671 or 718-813-3285 (US) 432 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CDROM Offering: Alan Sondheim : Collected and Newly-Released Work: Archive 4.5: This includes all the texts from 1994- present, a number of older articles, several books, a great number of images, some short video, etc. Archive is continuously updated. There is also sound-work and some programming. I think of this as the "basic" cd-rom; if you have an earlier copy, you might want to update. $ 12.00 including shipping. Other cdroms include new video/sound/image/text - please contact me for details. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ From: pascale gustin Subject: [e-e]xpression Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:15:15 +0100 seulement cette seul[e-e]xpression cette [e-e] cette^::::::::::::::::::^ seu\_\le-ment^ mais je ne sais pas si c;est ça vraiment cette parole n'est-elle là vraiment là n'est-elle vraiment L`A :::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::++++n'est-elle ParO[die]LE dea(LE)d words sEUL--------------------------------------->/mEnt mais je ne sais pas si c est ça vraiment si cette parole n'est vraiment là Reading directory /home/pascale/...done Reading directory /home/pascale/ARCHIVES/...done Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do------------------------------n-ot Auto-saving...do------------------------------n-e Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do------------------------------ne Auto-saving...do----------------------------- ne Auto-saving...do----------------------------- ne Auto-saving...do------------ ------------- ne Auto-saving...d------------- -------------------one+++more++tim-e Auto-saving...do------------ ------------- ne Auto-saving...do----------------------------- ne pour se repéter elle-même++++indefiment quelquechose qui tourne et qui troue je n][e ]s[h\.ais pas jE ne sais pAs-sI c^est Ça Auto-saving...done Auto-saving...done Wrote /home/pascale/ARCHIVES/m.me++++indefiment.tXt jE ne sais pAs-sI http://www.atelierblanc.net/p-gustin/02atelier/action01.htm http://www.atelierblanc.net/p-gustin/02atelier/action02.htm http://www.atelierblanc.net/p-gustin/02atelier/cadre1.htm Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 01:44:51 +0100 Subject: an artefact for interfiction IX (arteFaction! errors in/as media. Kassel, November 15th-17th, 2002) From: mi_ga@o-o.lt copy&paste commands, or: how machines make art I beg your pardon for my English. It is not perfect yet. Today I want to say a few words about errors in/as media. These thoughts are rather artistic than theoretical. At first, I would like to quote William S. Burroughs. His ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION begins as follows: "In the beginning was the word and the word was god and has remained one of the mysteries ever since. The word was God and the word was flesh we are told. In the beginning of what exactly was this beginning word? In the beginning of WRITTEN history." In 'GARDEN OF EDEN', he further elaborates on his theory that the written word was a virus which presumed the spoken word. So the written word got declared a basis of the further development of consciousness. My thoughts and reasonings about errors in/as media are related to computing machines whose functional basis is the written word. Computers allow easy copy&paste operations. They allow us to compute correct tasks as well as intentionally misleading ones. Exactly at this point, new media become interesting for artistic expression. I therefore would like to turn the title of this panel upside down because that shows better what it's about. The title should be: Media in/as Errors In other words, I regard media as activities which produce imperfection. If we try to follow the history of art, we see a striving for perfection. Similar striving can be observed in other fields. My concern are the computing machines which these days we call PCs. With that word, we mean the tool that delivers a perfect output. But one can observe as well that the machine is very frequently being used to produce uselessness. Or the machines don't function as we wish. In some cases it might happen that information disappears. Francis Hunger's lecture, which you just heard, was about a phenomenon that can hardly originate in a sane consciousness, black holes in the Internet. Another phenomenon that should be mentioned here is the realm of the virus. Such artists as jodi (www.jodi.org) or jimpunk (www.jimpunk.com) use the copy&paste function to emphasize the realm of the virus. What they produce later looks like unconscious computations or disrupted programs. How do we use the tools which new media offer us? If you beomce a permanent user of these tools, the result is Automatization The artworks produced by machines often don't fit into the modes of perception of human beings. They should be prepared to understand the output. The best way is acquired experience with these tools, and self-automatization. Open. Cut. Move the cursor. Copy and paste. Or simply paste. Turn it around. Resize it. Copy. Open. Select all. Delete. Paste. Paste. Move the cursor to the beginning. Type: #!/usr/bin/perl. Press delete. Type a colon, 'w', 'q' and '!'. Go back. Type Perl [filename]. Press ctrl+c. Open. File. Correct it. Turn everything by 180 degrees. Add mor sources. Errors. Comment a few lines. Change the values. Open Google. Search. Download. Copy and Paste. Correct. Think. Add some occasional commands. Add some replaced commands. Add sendmail. Save. Play. Copy and paste. Or Cut and paste. Transform. Flip horizontally. Transform. Flip vertically. Turn it to right. Highlight. Cut it out. Paste. Turn it to left. Copy. Paste. Wait. Wait. Correct. Save. The Perl compiler will probably return the error 505. But if we tried to make ourselves conscious of the above operations, we could produce some interesting results. We get, for example, very beautiful forms like in concrete poetry. Sometimes, the programs we have written will actually work. I now would like to show you one of the works of trashconnection the title of which is content-type (You can find it under http://content-type.trashconnection.com) The program looks as follows: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # neverending search for the highest number # created for the future print "content-type: text/html\n\n"; for ( $a=int(rand 1000000); $a>0; $b=$a*$a+$b ) { print "$a\n$b\n"; } This program has been written with an intentional error so that the Perl compiler calls up a variable entity $n in an endless loop. This variable entity $b is a number which gets added and multiplied with itself. No computing machine could terminate the program since of course there is no infinite number. The program runs like a written virus. The first randomly generated number, one out of one million, becomes the trigger of an infinite chain. So an ever-new artwork appears on the screen of the computer. With this work I would like to make a full stop to my description somewhere between the unconscious machinery and conscious creation... Thank you. p____________o____________s_____________t a r c h i v e http://www.o-o.lt/post [Translation from German by Florian Cramer] Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:03:52 -0500 Subject: Two New Pieces From: Daniel Young DICTART #1 The Genesis (team James version) Chapter One 1. In the beginning God created they have in the earth. 2. And the earth was without form, and Floyd; and darkness was among the face of the deep. And the spirit of God won't have on the face of voters. 3. And God said, let them in light; then there was light. 4. And got so the lights, that was good; and undivided the light from the darkness. 5. And got cold light day and the darkness he called manic. And the evening and the morning with the first day. From: diocletian@visi.com (Karl Petersen) Subject: (no subject) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:00:54 -0600 (CST) x ` ` # /#\l`// \q#j m/ ` # /\ x ~j m~qj # # l\`` /~`~/ x `qk \qj Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:05:12 -0600 From: Harrison Jeff Subject: R.Mutt and Jeff selected words observable | "phenomena's observable memory leaf | plasticity" continuous discrete recursives frame representations leaf notes the relapse calculated & collected leaf solution measures Omega-Objects cognitive structure a direct zero repeating identical moieties with deformation Trollope's trope toll fracture's continuum theory From: Karl Petersen Subject: Re: found poetry: "MSNBC Health News" Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:56:46 -0600 (CST) At 22:20 on Nov 26, blackhawk reasoned: > > Sex 138 times a year is U.S. average If you're going to build a static perl binary, make sure perl is installed otherwise ignore this warning > > Mold a growing problem in schools "If only there could be time enough to read it all." > > Herb makers cash in on menopause I think I have it sussed. 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