Hey Thar... In response to a request regarding Bill Seaman: Bill Seaman is a multimedia artist, writer. Professor at the Department of Design, Dixon Arts Centre, Los Angeles, USA. http://www.cda.ucla.edu/faculty/seaman/ seaman@ucla.edu I hoiked this blurb from the Adelade Telstra Festival 2000 site about his latest work (that I'm aware of) called RED DICE: Bill Seaman presents a new video based work related to Stiphane Mallarmi`s poem Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance / Un coup de dis jamais n`abolira le hasard. Red Dice can be seen as innovative writing, which explores text, image and music as three evocative inter-relating milieux. Where Mallarmi opened the door onto exciting new linguistic structures, Red Dice functions as homage to his explorations. The work muses on a network of foci exploring new forms of computer-based conveyance. It unpacks a set of relations internal to the original poem. It poetically explores such concepts as Derrida's Diffirance and a number of ideas presented in 1000 Plateaus by Deleuze and Guattari - the Rhizome, The Desiring Machine, the Machinic Assemblage. A spoken text is set against images of technologies from the past - the power loom, the mill, the player piano, the turbine. A droning/moving techno/machinic soundtrack contributes to the evocation of the work. The poetics of cybernetics focuses the extension of this network of musings, suggesting an expanded linguistics as manifested by recombinant computer mediated poetic construction. The work was commissioned by the Canadian National Gallery and functions as a companion work to my earlier interactive work Passage Sets / One Pulls Pivots At The Tip Of The Tongue. The work contemplates a network of foci by exploring new forms of computer-based, reconfiguration of meaning, thus unpacking a set of relations internal to the original poem. As for other URLS, perhaps U could try FAKESHOP: www.fakeshop.com Blast Theory: http://www.blasttheory.easynet.co.uk/ The Performing Arts Multimedia Library: http://www.cinemedia.net/PAML/outline.htm#
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