[-empyre-] Footnotes -New Language (Pierce and Code sidebar)

[Bill Seaman <bseaman@risd.edu>]

I thought I would try to add footnotes to these so people could get a 
better idea of some very different approaches to digital writing... 
In many cases this speaks to the continuum between the digital and 
the physical... subjectobject unity.

See Osmose
1) http://www.immersence.com/publications/char/os_notes02.htm
The text environment is one of a number of virtual spaces...
> When I encounter a meta text in Char Davies Osmose that is the code 
> of the work as presented as meta- architecture (literal virtual 
> architecure --- a pun on architecture), the experiential nature of 
> the environment, in particular the physical interface she has 
> designed to enable one to navigate the virtual environment becomes 
> enfolded phenomenologically with the layers of meaning in the text. 
> All of Peirces modes - firstness, secondness and thirdness co-mingle 
> and change in relation to ongoing navigation of this virtual space. 
> Yet here the environment also enables a charged field of meaning to 
> become part of this layering. The quixotic nature of the ongoing 
> subtle shifts between firstness, secondness and thirdness seem to 
> even transcend the idea that each level is becoming the other (as 
> Marcus suggests) in terms of this larger mutable virtual 
> environmental scheme which also signifies. This constellation of 
> signs, each changing at its own velocity in relation to the 
> participant's movements, seems to move to a heightened level of 
> layering of intersemiotic modes. Might we work on a new word that 
> points at this advanced level of intersemiotic relations. ---
>  What would Pierce have encountered that would be relevant to 
> compare to such an environment? Here are some potential terms ---
>  hyperintersemiotic; transintersemiotic (did Marcos Novak already 
> coin this?) supra-intersemiotic? Intra-semiotic?


2) See Warren Sac
Street Stories
http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/SocialComputingLab/Projects/StreetStories/Description/index.html
See also his homepage - http://hybrid.ucsc.edu/SocialComputingLab/projects.php
 The Corporeal Stenographer: Language, Gesture, and Cyberspace

> I also begin to think about new forms of locative media that depend 
> on landscape and physical navigation, lending levels of meaning to 
> the digital text (context)? Hyperecosemiotic?

See also the work of Teri Rueb  http://www.terirueb.net/flash/TeriRueb.html


3)Tiffany Holmes - Littoral Zone
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mitpress/leon/1999/00000032/00000005/art00007

> I think about media- behaviors and a-life parameters/potentialities 
> giving text new kinds of electronic "life". Artificial-Semiotic-life 
> - a-sem-life

see also the work of John Maeda's group at mit concerning text behaviors...
http://acg.media.mit.edu/


4 See Billseaman.com   texts   E-Phany Physics

I think about physics and artificial physics (E-phany physics as I 
coined it) as it is conjoined with texts to present new kinds of 
reactive and intra-active environments. E-phanysemiotics

5) See Writing Machines by N. Katherine hayles
also her concept of "Flickering Signifiers"
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/mediawork/
She writes about Lexia to Perplexia
See Talan Memmott's Lexia to Perplexia as an introduction into Creole
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/hypermedia/talan_memmott/

See David Small
http://www.davidsmall.com/
the Illuminated Manuscript ; Talmud project; Food for Thought

> Hayles uses the term "Creole" to talk about texts that intermingle 
> code and poetic text ---
>  Yet what happens when this is extended into the phenomenological 
> space of physical computing. An object|creole enfolding is generated.


6) Lynn Hershmann Leeson
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=167

> What happens when the machine writes the text in an autonomous 
> manner that is reacting to various forms of interface input? Lynn 
> Hershmann's Agent Ruby? Does the fact that it is a machine change 
> the meaning in a subtle manner --- is there a word for this? 
> Turingtestmatic writing?


7) Eduardo Kac
see Genesis
http://www.ekac.org/geninfo2.html

> Kac wrote a bio-code via the computer that was made physical and 
> transcribed back into a text --- what kind of word points at this 
> accretive layering of meaning - digitaccretive?


8) sharon Daniels
Her writing on the subject http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/further/papers.html
See Narrative Contingencies - 
http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/further/narrative_contingencies.html
see also subtract the sky
http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/further/subtractthesky.html

> Works where all variables are supplied by the participant and are 
> then formed by the code into a new work--- participant driven 
> semiosis?? I-semiosis?


9) See Friedrich W. Block -- the tee shirt for p0es1s (he mentions 
the shirt in a post on this list...)

> Or works that actually are auto destructive in terms of meaning 
> production --- the virus t-shirt code? Diss-semiosis

Erasure...
see also  Adriana de Souza e Silva and Fabian Winkler
http://www.eliterature.org/state/work-deSouzaA.shtml



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