Kate Pullinger's 'Line of Influence' at Binary Katwalk
Binarykatwalk is an online exhibition space for experimental digital work, curated by locative media/new media artist and writer, Jeremy Hight, and this month sees the launch of the Kate Pullinger section of The Line of Influence, which is:
…a series of a few artists selected to show their work alongside who influenced them and those they see as kindred spirits coming up. This is not an ordinary exhibition, but instead a chance to show how ideas and works progress over time and how no artist is a solitary force out there.
I’m honoured that Kate has chosen to include my own piece, Fitting the Pattern, alongside Flight Paths, the networked novel she co-creates with Chris Joseph, These Waves of Girls by Caitlin Fisher and Renee Turner’s She….
Fitting the Pattern in the Binary Katwalk open-gallery-network
There’s also video documentation of readings/performances by Renee Turner; Maria Mencia; Noah Wardrip-Fruin; Talon Memmott; Judd Morrissey, Mark Jeffery and Fanny Holmin; Ian Hatcher; and also Robert Coover’s keynote speech.
This was a great conference organised by Scott, who in his report says:
In putting together the conference, I had a few specific goals in mind. The first was to bring together the critical, theoretical, pedagogical, and infra-structural thinking that might typify an academic conference with the creative writers who are actually producing the works on which the field is based. I think that in electronic literature we are really privileged in that the scholars and creative writers are not divided into two separate communities, but are part of one coevolving community. To this end, I thought it would be important to present both academic papers, and to do so within the framework of a peer review structure, but also to present readings of electronic literature, in environments suited to performance of digital works.
The majority of the stimulating academic papers that were presented are available on the conference site here: elitineurope.net
My friend Toni Lebusque is an artist who makes images with pen and pastels as well as digital media and lately she’s been inscribing her wonderful drawings into her flesh. I’ve never been tempted to get a tattoo myself, I’m far too variable, but I can relate to that desire to embody, to embolden the body, to flesh out, to be art in the flesh. It feels somehow connected, although diametrically different, to what draws me in much of my creative work – bringing viscera and flesh into the virtual, see: rawVamp, rawLorem Ipsum, IntraVenus or couplings.
So what do I do? I turn Toni’s tattoos electronic. Well, there’s no ‘arm in it, is there? (sorry;-)
