[spectre] New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 07.

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New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 07.

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Review Title - CURATING AMBIGUITY - ELO.
About - The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One.
Review by Franz Thalmair.

In autumn 2006 the ELO -- Electronic Literature Organization released 
the ELC1 -- Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, including 
selected works in New Media forms such as Hypertext Fiction, Kinetic 
Poetry, generative and combinatory forms, Network Writing, Codework, 3D, 
and Narrative Animations.

One of the main common characteristics of all Web-based literary 
products is that they can be read (or viewed, listened, played with, 
used) in multifaceted ways. Accordingly the curation of Electronic 
Literature is challenged by ambiguity and heterogeneity on different 
levels. As broadly termed by the ELO itself, Electronic Literature is a 
form of cultural and artistic production on the Internet with important 
literary aspects that takes advantage of the contexts provided by the 
stand-alone or networked computer. Similar to what is not yet 
consistently defined as Digital Art, Netart, Internet Art, New Media 
Art, etc.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=217

Review Title and name of work - The Possible Ties Between Illness and 
Success.
Review by Pau Waelder.
A work by Carlo Zanni in the form of a short, one-minute movie that 
plays over the web [1]. Starring Stefania Orsola Garello and Ignazio 
Oliva, the film has been produced with the quality of a major motion 
picture, yet it will be screened exclusively on the Internet. The reason 
for this is, the movie is meant to be transformed by its own audience. 
When users visit the website to watch it, they leave a trace in the form 
of data (date and time of access, IP address, country of origin and so 
on). This data is collected by Google Analytics, and then sent to the 
server that hosts the film. A program interprets this information and 
fills the body of the man in the movie with stains, their number and 
location depending on the number of visitors and their origin. The film 
is then re-edited and uploaded so that the next users can watch a newly 
made movie. Their presence is monitored by Google Anaylitics, and the 
whole process starts again.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=218

Review Title and name of work - You Are Not Here.
Review by Luis Silva.
Developed by Thomas Duc, Kati London, Dan Phiffer, Andrew Schneider, Ran 
Tao and Mushon Zer-Aviv and inviting people to “explore Baghdad through 
the streets of New York”, YANH presents itself as an urban tourism 
mash-up. Not only can you be in two places at the same time (the 
ubiquity concept we departed from), but also both places become 
interconnected in a psychological enactment of a meta-city. The 
underlying mechanism is pretty simple: users (the so-called 
meta-tourists) are invited to download and print on one side of a sheet 
of paper a map of Baghdad and on the other side a reversed map of New 
York. As soon as that task is accomplished the exotic sightseeing can 
begin. Scattered around New York are YANH street-signs that provide 
warned explorers (those who printed the map) as well as random 
passers-by the telephone number for the Tourist Hotline, where 
audio-guided tours of contemporary Baghdad destinations in NYC can be 
listened to.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=216


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