[spectre] Turbulence Commission: "Ten-sided" by Francis Hwang, et al

[Turbulence]

March 18, 2006
Turbulence Commission: "Ten-sided" by Francis Hwang, with Johannes
Gorannson, Jess Kilby, Tao Lin, Brendon Lloyd, Jessica Penrose, Glenis
Stott, John Woods, Taren McCallan-Moore, and why the lucky stiff
http://turbulence.org/works/ten-sided

"Ten-sided" is a textual performance in which ten authors collaboratively
improvise on a single online narrative. For three months, each author will
blog as a fictional character. All ten characters must somehow be connected,
and all ten authors are responsible for ensuring that this connection is
explored through the course of the story. However, authors are forbidden
from coordinating the story beforehand. Instead, they can only take their
cues from one another's public entries. The resulting improvisation
resembles a jazz performance or a session of exquisite corpse, but in a new
form of creative practice that comments on and employs the multi-vocal
nature of blogging communities.

"Ten-sided" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka
Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding
from The Greenwall Foundation.

BIOGRAPHY

Francis Hwang is an artist, writer, and software engineer. His earlier
artwork includes "The Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition",
in which he combined a U2 iPod Special Edition with Negativland's back
catalog and auctioned the result online; and "firmament.to", which uses the
Google Web API to turn any HTML page into a free-associated index for the
rest of the web. His writing on technology and culture has appeared in Spin,
Wired, ArtByte, and FEED Magazine. An active member of the Ruby community,
he has spoken at the International Ruby Conference and currently serves as a
technical lead on free software projects such as Ruby-DBI and the
object-relational mapping library Lafcadio. He lives in Brooklyn with one
roommate, two computers, and two cats.

See http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/002239.html for additional
biographies.

For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
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