Re: [-empyre-] what work are women doing now?

[Judy Malloy <judymalloy@judymalloy.net>]

Melinda,

 in.finite sounds very interesting. Please email me about the work's
progress!

I particularly like the idea of the meditative white space.internal landscape.  

It is interesting the ways in which art forms evolve and develop and sometimes
there are things that become "givens" -- like black vr spaces -- but there is really
no reason that they should be that way. 

 Or one way of approaching an art form becomes dominant and other ways are overlooked.
 I'm thinking, for instance of the Adventure story format that Infocom pioneered -- 
I think Nick and Noah cover some of these early approaches to enarrative in their book -- but linked
hyperfiction became more prevalent (underneath there are actually structural simalarities)
I'm not sure why. Maybe partially because those of us who developed the field
worked in this way and also because of Eastgate's storyspace and, of course, the web.

What are other women on this list working on?

Best,
Judy





 


>in.finite is a  multiuser  networked  based 3d scren and projected scape,
>with user interaction sensor driven within a contained space so that human
>movement  triggers the navigation thru the environment.. (im  toying with OS
>games engine  but im not sure yet)
>
>the  whole space is white as opposed to the black spaces that VR worlds
>usually are .. so  it could be seen to be meditative, exploring the
>afterlife or death,  the internal landscape , or just plain old misty
>crevices in oriental valleys .. its also the energetic electronic glow or
>the spark that keeps our computers running.. the potentiality of void.  i
>visualise the space with soft silver and neonesque tones with  organic
>translucent and permeable inhabitants
>.. it is  simultaneously macrocosmic and  microbiological and visualises
>concepts from quantum physics.. and i want it to give a sensory experience
>of bathing in space which is what extreme whiteness does..
> immersion in Marie Antoinette's milk bath perhaps ...
>
>it would eb great to hear what others are doing...
>
>melinda
>
>
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