[-empyre-] Re: artblog

[Jill Walker <jill.walker@uib.no>]

Patrick, thanks for the link to the blog-art thing, that's really interesting.

> Most of this (to me) has mroe to do with the way the individual shapes the
> narrative of their blog.

Absolutely. You can do a lot of different things in a blog.

> For the moment, I have seen few blogs that deviate
> from a fairly representative narrative, opting toward a journalistic or
> op-ed style of writing.  I'd love to see a surreal, literary style of prose
> incorporated into blogging, or even have forms of literary fiction
> incorporated into the form, truly turning it into a form of dynamic
> literature.

Ruthie's double 
(http://dns123.presol.com/pub/ruthiesdouble/#January16_2002-2) almost 
does this. Not surreal, quite possibly not fiction, but clearly more 
about the writing than about a progressive journal style narrative. 
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is aiming at making a "fiction blog", at 
http://hyperfiction.org

> I find the Wiki technology much more exciting, as I had the chance to
> participate in Giselle Beugelmann's piece for the Sao Paulo Biennial ("c'est
> ne pas une Nike").  As time went on, the text seemed to writhe under the
> hand of the participants, and the negotiations beteeen the writers that the
> text represented was fascinating to watch, alluding to an archtiectonic of
> lexia.

Yes, and there are people using Wiki for blogs. Personally I don't 
get wikis, or I kind of do, theoretically, but there's no chemical 
attraction so I've given up trying. For that kind of live performance 
I imagine they'd be really good fun.

Jill