[-empyre-] -empyre- in Jan06: Computational Poetics

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

Many thanks to December's guests and to Raquel Renno for
facilitating the month!

The featured guests of -empyre- in January 2006 are Kenneth 
Newby, Martin Gotfrit, Alexandra Dulic, and Andreas Kahre in 
Vancouver Canada. They are working together in a project 
called Computational Poetics that "aims to articulate a 
poetics of digital art performance while developing a tool-set
to enable artists working in the computational medium to 
create, present and document their work." Computational 
Poetics is also creating a series of works combining live 
animation, performance documentary, and music techniques 
for performance and installation. The project involves both
creating art and creating tools for artists. Some of the 
questions they consider, along the way, are:

1. How is artistic expression mediated through 
   computing technology or the logic machine?
2. What useful models can be found for emerging 
   technologies in cultural traditions outside 
   of contemporary practice?
3. How to support these cultural traditions in 
   the context of computational art?
4. How does one create applications and processes 
   that demystify the computer and empower the artist?

ja
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