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• DOC(K)s/aLire

(soft) DOC(K)S[sous rature] Series 3 nos. 13/14/15/16 (Fall 1997)
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aLire 10
“Poesie & Informatique”

255 pp. Lots of visual material. 25×17 cm. Paperback, with a CD ROM.

250 French Francs from:

DOC(K)S
20 rue Bonaparte
F 20 000 Ajaccio
France
Tel: 95 21 32 90; Fax: 95 21 32 09
Email: akenaton_docks@sitec.fr

perhaps also available from:

aLire
Philippe Bootz
27 allée des Coquelicots
59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
France
Email: motsvoir@aol.com

Substantial (quadruple issue) assemblage (mixed bag) of material relating to what I prefer to call ‘Poetics in Programmable Media’. The perspectives and engagements of the French/European/non-anglophone/international practitioners is a necessary corrective to the current domination of USA-Net-centric ‘classic hypertext’ in this emergent field of Writing, so this collection is well worth exploring.

On paper:

Akenaton, Balpe, Barbosa, Baroni, Blaine, Bootz, Borillo, Castellin, Chamalin, Courtaud, Daniel, De Campos, De la Pezuela, Dencker, Doctorovich, Donguy, Echenique, Eckmeyer, Ferdinande, Ferrare, Fiatte, Fierens, Frangione, Giachi, Ginzburg, Globensky, Gualtieri, Gyori, Koller, Kayser, Lenzy, Lijn, Loizillon, Mac Naughton, Maggi, Maillard, Marc Etienne, Meyer, Murphy, Nanucci, Ozorsky, Padin, Pan, Papp, Peloquin, Scherb, Serandour, Soules, Sproccati, Tardy, Thibat, Tilier, Tilman, Tolsty, Torregrosa, Vuillemin, Younes, Zelevansky

CD Gallery:

Astrid, Berard/Castellin, Chamalin, Courtaud, Dencker, Diot Allevi, Doctorovich, Febrero, Ferdinande, Ferrare, Fierrens, Frangione, Gualtieri, Lijn, Maillard, Murphy, Padin, Papp, Soule, Tardy, Thibat, Tillier, Tolsty

CD (Hypertextual/Animations/Kinetic/Generative):

Akenaton, Balpe, Barbosa, Bootz, Burgaud, Cayley, De Asen, De Campos, Doctorovich, Donguy/Loizillon, Dos Santos, Dutey/Sautiere, Giacchi, Gyorgy, Kac, Kalejevsky, Magne, Marc Etienne, Papp/Maillard, Peloquin, Petchanatz, Rosenberg, Scherb, Serandour, Tardy, Tillier, Zelevansky

Doc(k)s[sous rature] (ISSN 0396-3004) appears to be edited by Julien Blaine, Philippe Castellin, Jean Torregosa with (‘spectres familiers’): B. Ferrando, Pierre Garnier, Jean Monodo, Tom Raworth, Jean-Charles Vegliante.

aLire (ISSN 1260-87750) whose collaboration in this publication comprises its 10th (! check out the earlier stuff) issue of poetique/informatique, is edited by Philippe Bootz and Tibor Papp.

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• Technophobia

(TECHNOPHOBIA CD ROM, plays on Mac and PC computers.)

“Technophobia” is a collection of original multimedia art made as an interactive exhibition. In addition to the original multimedia artwork on the CD it’s also possible to access a studio visit with each artist.

The artists on the CD are:
Judith Ahern, Bill Albertini, Huma Bhabha, Joseph Ferrari, Troy Innocent, Alan Koninger, Tim Maul, Christian Perez, Lynne Sanderson, Guillaume Wolf, Genevieve Glaucker, Jody Zellen and Dooley Le Cappellaine.

The CD also features music by David Barnes and Charles Cohen, Moniek Darge, Joshua Fried, The Happy Jacks, Fugitive Pope, Phil Niblock, Mike Hovanscek with Pointless Orchestra and John Hajeski with Post Prandials. There are previews of the musician’s works also on the Website.

“Technophobia” has been aquired for the collection of ZKM, Germany and selected for exhibition at:

IceBox Gallery, Athens, Greece, November 1997: Venetia Kaperneka

SIGGRAPH’97 ,Los Angeles, USA, http://www.siggraph.org/s97 Women and the Art of Multimedia, International Multimedia Showcase, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC., September, 1997 Medienkunstfestival Osnabr^Áck, Germany, 1997 The Festival of Cinema and New Media, Montreal, June 5–15 1997 (http://www.fcmm.com) The Video Positive Festival, Manchester/Liverpool, Britain. 1997 The International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1997 The International Festival of Electronic Art, Riga, Latvia, 1997 International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Oberhausen Germany, 1997 Void, NYC http://www.escape.com/~void, voice: 212.941.6492

If you would like to order the CD:

* $25 US, Check or Money order payable at a US bank made out to:
Dooley Le Cappellaine.
$5 USA s&h
$10 international shipping and handling.
PRINCE STREET STATION, PO BOX 528, NY NY 10012-9998

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