[spectre] Turbulence Commission: "Tumbarumba" by Ethan Ham and Benjamin Rosenbaum

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Turbulence Commission: "Tumbarumba" by Ethan Ham and Benjamin Rosenbaum
http://turbulence.org/works/tumbarumba/
[Needs Firefox Browser and Tumbarumba extension]

"Tumbarumba" is a frolic of intrusions -- a conceptual artwork in the form
of a Firefox extension. "Tumbarumba" hides stories -- twelve new stories by
outstanding authors -- where you least expect to find them, turning your
everyday web browsing into a strange journey.

"Tumbarumba" is a 2008 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the Jerome Foundation. 

BIOGRAPHIES

ETHAN HAM is a sculptor and installation artist who often uses kinetics,
electronics, and computers in his artwork. "Tumbarumba" is the second time
that he has worked with Turbulence. His first commission was
"Self-Portrait", an on-going search for "self-portraits" on Flickr.com using
facial-recognition. Other projects include Mirror at the PS122 Gallery, a
residency at the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR), and
"Email Erosion" for Rhizome.org. Ethan is an Assistant Professor of New
Media at The City College of New York.

BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM lives near Basel, Switzerland, with his wife Esther and
his cute and alarming children, Aviva and Noah, who like to cook pancakes,
sing recursive songs, and turn people into pigs. His stories have appeared
in Harper's, F&SF, Asimov's, McSweeney's, Strange Horizons, and Nature; been
nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, BSFA, and Sturgeon Awards;
and been translated into 14 languages; also, Noah told him he was fancier
than Noah's elbow. His debut short story collection, "The Ant King and Other
Stories", was recently released from Small Beer Press.

Ethan & Ben previously collaborated on "Anthroptic" an artists' book
commissioned by The Present Group.

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

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
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