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CANUCK CONNECTIONS
Zn 98/09/11: New media news and fun from the great white north at Zn this week... The Canadians are coming!

Copyright © 1998 by Ted Warnell and Zn. All rights reserved.

 


1998 SEP 11


Canuck Connections
TED WARNELL

    "Text as graphic. Text as object. Text as object no different from a graphical object."
Quotation from
Web Del Sol, Perihelion site, DIGITAL LANGU(IM)AGE: language and image as objects in a field by west coast artist and poet Jim Andrews.

The Perhelion site at WDS specializes in new media theory, and my good friend Jim is a theoretical thinker to stand with the best of them. His work at Perihelion is good -- good for Jim, for WDS and Perihelion, and good for Zn readers (because you can read it by clicking below)...
 

Web Del Sol: Perihelion
webdelsol.com/Perihelion/jimarticle.htm
USA
 
On the WDS bulletin board
is Jim's follow-up to the Perihelion piece, a work titled Political Dimensions of Langu(im)age. Worthwhile reading, and you can post your response to the work on the WDS board, too. Read all about it at http://www.webdelsol.com/bbs/arts/arts.cgi?read=37

And if you'd like to see still more of Jim's work, then look into Zn ART, LIT, and WEB... he's an active kinda guy.
 

Another active friend
with some nifty news this week is Canadian artist T.S. (Tom) Thomas (also from the west coast of our beautiful land). Tom sends news of his latest project The Word from Cyberspace. Read on...

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:22:46
From: T.S. Thomas <thomast@infomatch.com>
Subject: update 404

404 update, September 1998

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 10, 1998

Contact: Tom @ 604 926-2015
Word On The Street @ 604 632-9910
thomast@infomatch.com

The Word from Cyberspace.

Vancouver poet T.S. (Tom) Thomas is scheduled
to perform at Vancouver's 4th annual Word On The
Street Festival at Library Square on September
27th. Thomas is well-known for his outdoor text
installations (POETRY AT WORK) which entail the
laying out of large letters on the ground in
public spaces.

At last year's festival, Thomas installed a
poem measuring 20 meters (60 ft) in length at
the library's main entrance. A video clip
showing passersby interacting with the work
can be viewed at the archives of DENTV,
http://www.dentv.com

This year's installation is titled: The Word
from Cyberspace. Thomas' new poem extends
themes along those presented last year, and
incorporates his World Wide Web project,
File Not Found 404.

File Not Found 404 has been described as
'conceptual Web art' and the 'world's first
known deconstructed Web site'. It can be
viewed at http://www.islandnet.com/404

Thomas' most recent Poetry Installation,
'A Wanton Act of Poetry', was performed in
collaboration with Jamie Reid and saxophonist
Henry Boudin at English Bay during Vancouver's
International Jazz Festival (June 98).

The text from last year's Word On The Street
installation along with other information
about Thomas' work can be accessed at
http://infomatch.com/~thomast/
More about the work
of T.S. Thomas here in Zn LIT and WEB. Another busy guy, eh?
 

Mike Harris,
Premier of Canada's largest province, Ontario, has upset more than a few of the flock, it seems, by substantially upping taxes business owners will be required to pay to do business in the province.

By request of certain irate business folks, here is my rendition of a situation described to me by telephone -- my first foray into the world of political cartooning...


 
THIS WAY TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE
OK, BE GOOD LITTLE SHEEP AND FOLLOW ME...
ONTARIO SMALL BUSINESS ROLLING IN DOUGH
 
CLICK FOR WEB IMAGE ~ 22K
 
CLICK FOR PRINT IMAGE ~ 82K

Well, not really.
I'm not a cartoonist, political or otherwise, and this crude effort is probably way off the mark, but I had some fun putting it together. By the way, that is really Premier Mike Harris, and really Dolly the (cloned) sheep.

If you would like to have a copy, please help yourself. To my family, friends, and fellow entrepreneurs in Ontario... good luck.
 
 
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