I think David Jhave Johnston is doing some of the best net art right now. Sound Seeker ( http://vispo.com/jhave ) is a "code-synch beat-match jump-edit txt-tool" written in Actionscript. Jhave says Sound Seeker is "an online real-time beat-synchronized poem animator. Sound drives the rhythm of the words: their speed and style of display can be controlled." The homepage shows twelve experimental video poems produced by Jhave with Sound Seeker. Access the underlying interactive Flash app in the "Method" section. In the "Motivation" section, Jhave discusses remarks by Rudolph Arnheim concerning intermedia. A fascinating poetry, programming, video, audio, 3D animation, and theory/poetics project--and the writing is very lively on its own. A significant project in net art and digital poetry of considerable achievement.
Check out Jhave's site at http://glia.ca for more of the Sound Seeker project. ja _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
