Zn new media library: A New Approach

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a journal of new media experimental visual literary theory practice

Ted Warnell
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Features, reviews, papers

A NEW APPROACH
A new approach to an age old question, "What's new under the sun?" A growing number of visual and literary artists are quickly coming to view cyberspace as a marvelous new resource offering limitless opportunity for new and creative expression. Here are two artists with a new approach to what's new.

First published as A&T 03/27/97 at Art & Technology, The Mining Company, New York. Copyright © 1997 by The Mining Company and Ted Warnell. All rights reserved.

1997 MAR 27

Carol Wickenhiser-Schaudt
USA

"As a watercolorist who started out to be a biologist, Carol's paintings may remind you of looking through a microscope. She concentrates on minute pieces of the world around her. People often overlook the beauty that Carol sees in the small details of nature, but few can view her paintings without commenting on these details."

Carol Wickenhiser-Schaudt is a scientist, a marine biologist, whose work involves the collection, study, and preservation of endangered animal and plant species.

Largely self-taught in her art, Carol has mastered the demanding medium of watercolor to produce award winning works of rare and endangered orchids, and everyday scenes from her world. By her highly detailed and accurate botanical illustrations, Carol preserves forever the beauty of rare and natural wonders. At her Web site, she invites us to learn more about, and to share in, her passion for the natural world.

"Someday, perhaps, science may locate a gene for botanical illustration. This could explain Carol's unknowingly furthering a family tradition..."

The Watercolors of Carol Wickenhiser-Schaudt
www.neosoft.com/~schaudt/cw/default.html

The Web
is providing new means for creative expression. One scientist and artist finds cyberspace is an ideal place to share her knowledge, art, and passion.

Writer and poet
Chris Bell takes a novel approach to engage readers in the very act of his creative work... a means to an end?

Chris Bell
CANADA

"This is a novel in progress, with new installments added every two weeks."

Chris Bell is a writer and poet. He is currently writing a novel on the Web and posts new chapters at regular intervals. Visitors to his Web site can read the entire work to date and interact with the artist via email.

In addition to some engaging and entertaining prose, Chris has posted art and poetry works, all wrapped in a clean and smooth site interface. The artist welcomes comment by visitors, and presumably, some of these do affect and shape the evolving work. To what end? You will have visit from time to time to see.

"...as if a hundred unknown hands are about to lay hold, directed by minds unknown, purposes discoverable only in end and object..."

Capturing Shadowtalk
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/6304

Image clips from the Web site of the artist. Used by permission.

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