Il s’agit d’une réponse au « tue-moi » de Christophe Tarkos (Caisses, 1998). Dès que le lecteur clique sur un bouton, un message d’alerte apparaît lui indiquant qu’un mail va être envoyé, puis la messagerie électronique du lecteur s’ouvre. Si le lecteur se décide à envoyer le message, il se rend compte que ce message est envoyé à une boîte mail qui n’existe pas.
(Source: Archive on author's site)
The work is a screenshot in jpg format of a draft email in a google mail inbox. It comprises the unsent reply to a previous message in which a poem has been inserted alongside the "quotation" arrows commonly used in email programs to designate historical comments. It includes a shot of the google ads that have been generated by emailing the poem to the recipient and receiving it back.
Author description: Written in Catalan, The Fugue Book thematizes the mutability and precarious aspects of personal identity. Using "Facebook Connect," the story draws personal information about the reader and his friends (the main characters) from Facebook itself. The work combines a variety of modes, genres, and platforms: wikis, discussion forums, erotic stories, blogs, and social media. Most texts are actual email messages, which is to say that the real email of the reader is a fundamental component of the text. The multimedia structure is very simple in that it only integrates static images, parts of speech synthesis (adapted to the reader), and text. The languages of programming are ActionScript and PHP.
Programming languages: ActionScript and PHP. A Facebook account is required.
An email novel that forms a sequel to Rob Wittig's Blue Company, originally sent out in emails to a small group of readers over the course of the summer of 2002, and later published on the web as an archive of emails in August 2003 by frAme Journal of Culture and Technology.
Scenario and characters based on Rob Wittig's Blue Company. Some writing and images contributed by Rob Wittig.
Originally written under the auspices of the Xerox PARC Artist in Residence Program, and published in 1996 by Eastgate Systems, Forward Anywhere is a hypertextual narrative written by new media poet Judy Malloy and then Xerox PARC hypertext researcher Cathy Marshall. Created when Malloy was an artist in residence at PARC, beginning in 1993, the collaborative narrative -- an exchange of the details of the lives of two women who work with hypertext -- unfolded via email over a year or so and then was somewhat fictionalizd and recontextualized into Forward Anywhere. "...each emerges from a particular history and sensibility, Malloy's from the postwar suburbs of Boston, Marshall's from California and the sixties. To pass from one of these moments to the other is to recognize the almost-repetition of emergent or autopoetic pattern, an experience that touches something very deep in the instinctual repertoire, perhaps demonstrating that software does speak to human identity after all," Stuart Moulthrop wrote in "Where to?", Convergence 3:3, Fall, 1997: 132-38. Forward Anywhere was also detailed in two papers: Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall, "Notes on an Exchange Between Intersecting Lives", in: In Search of Innovation - the Xerox PARC PAIR Experiment, Craig Harris, ed., MIT PRESS, 2000 and Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall, "Closure was Never a Goal in this Piece", in: Wired Women. Seal, 1996 ed. Cherny and Weise.pp. 56-70. It was exhibited at Xerox PARC as part of PARC's 25th Anniversary Celebration in 1995 and at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago in 1996
This work was made in response to a call by Metamute (London) for Jam Echelon Day 2001. It simply employs all the words stored in the Echelon system in a program that automatically generates texts using whatever dictionary it has available.
Whenever a user moves their mouse over a text it will automatically re-write itself as a new text. It will then e-mail that text to a random e-mail address (this last e-mailing component of the work is currently disabled, but will be enabled by the artist at the appropriate time - the effect will be to flood the net with echelon sensitive messages at the rate of hundreds per minute, depending on user interaction).
Echelon is the worldwide signals intelligence network run by the US National Security Agency and the UK Government Communications Headquarters in collaboration with Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Echelon uses large ground-based radio antennae in the United States, Italy, the UK, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and several other countries to intercept satellite transmissions and some surface traffic, as well as employing satellites to tap transmissions between cities.
Echelon is reportedly capable of interecepting large portions of the world's communications, including phone conversations, email and SMS. It uses dictionaries to search for keywords that various security services consider to be of interest. Under the ECHELON system, a particular station's dictionary computer contains not only its parent agency's chosen keywords, but also a list for each of the other four agencies. Each station collects all the telephone calls, faxes, telexes, emails, internet traffic and other communications that pass through it and compares them against this list of keywords.
(Source: Artist's statement by Simon Biggs)
