In ' + 'Animal Locomotion (1996-2000), which' + ' began with drawings made from Muybridge\'s photographs of figures in motion,' + ' the viewer interactively changes the configuration of the site.' + ' The server keeps track of the' + ' configuration, so that when the next viewer visits the site the last' + ' configuration appears on the screen. The viewer is ' + ' embedded in a non-linear process that can never be entirely controlled.' + ' In keeping with this interest in process and the sub-rational, the site looks at' + ' the psychology and culture of image-making which Muybridge shared with' + ' Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylavania Academy of Fine Arts and explores the' + ' subliminal nature of image-making.' + '' + ' Animal Locomotion is included in' + ' Rhizome.org\'s "Artbase".'; /****** AUTOBIOGRAPHY ******/ Texts[1] = '
' + 'Autobiography (1996) is a multi-media' + ' ' + 'installation which includes an extensive website; it was shown' + ' at The Winnipeg Art Gallery (1996/97) and The Robert' +' McLaughlin Gallery (1999). The' +' ' + ' website offers interactive image manipulation, making use of CGI' + ' applications written in C and was one of the earliest websites to use this' + ' technology.' + 'The ' +' installation looks at the reprocessing of information in terms of memory,' + ' image-making, and digital media. It consists two forms of lightbox, one' + 'of which is animated, and two computers, one connected to the website' + ' and the other displaying the same visual and textual data' + 'as the web site but using a DOS-based graphical user interface upgraded from' + 'an earlier project and created by the artist.'; /****** SEA CHANGES ******/ Texts[2] = '
In ' + 'Sea Changes (1997-98) artists 50 or over, from a variety of disciplines,' + ' submitted personal biographical materials to a common database. The original' + ' idea was to have them use that database as a basis from which create' + ' fictional biographies. Although many artists registered to' + ' participate, it turned out to be more difficult than anticipated to' + ' get people in this age group to see the project through to the end,' + ' particularly because this was still an early period of internet use.' + ' As there was some very good writing among the submissions,' + ' I by-pased the second stage of the project and posted the original' + ' biographical submissions.' + ''; Texts[3] = '
' + 'Sea Changes was a Deep Web project of the Banff Centre for' + ' the Arts
' + 'Extensions (1999-2000) was my contribution to a group project called "Reaching",' + ' which set out to look at networking as a metaphor' + ' for various ways of communicating or of "reaching" from one point or person' + ' to another. This project has been discontinued but' + ' Extensions' + ' can be viewed as a stand-alone' + ' site and has been exhibited on' + ' Javamuseum.org.' + ' It is an extended Java applet which looks at the metaphor of "reaching"' + ' through forms that science (through radar telescope technologies)' + ' and art have created for imaging and imagining' + ' the relationship between earth and sky.' + ' Note: This is a high bandwith site.'; /****** OLD NEWS ******/ Texts[4] = '
Old News (2002) ' + ' is a sequence of brief interconnecting meditations/prose poems set' + ' in a context of current news headlines and photos, which are constantly being' + ' updated from various news sources. A variety of technical means are used ' + ' to emphasize, connect, and expand meanings. The subjects are aging,' + ' with the consequent decline and unpredictability of the body, the' + ' inexplicability of one\'s own history, and external history and events ' + ' as mirrored metaphorically in one\'s personal history and bodily condition.' + ' Old News' + ' was published in the poetry/multimedia e-zine ' + ' sendecki.com in 2002.'; /****** WOODCUTS ******/ Texts[5] = '
Woodblocks' + ' is a representative selection of my woodcuts and related works from 1977' + ' to the present. In the late 80\'s I began using woodblock prints in' + ' photo-based work, reflecting my interest in the reprocessing of media,' + ' and of mirroring one visual form in terms of another.' + ' This work combined lightboxes, photos, woodcuts, and photo-reproduced woodcuts.' + ' In 1992 I was one of 8 artists/printmakers representing Canada ' + ' at "X Mostra da Gravura\\Mostra Americana" at the Museu' + ' da Gravura (Curitiba, Brazil). Currently, I am' + ' exploring graphic means of representing digital, zoomed images' + ' in black and white woodcuts.' + ' My prints have won awards at the Boston Printmakers North American' + ' Print Exhibtion in 1995 and 2001.'; /****** MYRON TURNER ******/ Texts[6] = '
Myron Turner is a multi-media artist whose work has combined photography,' + ' lightboxes, printmaking and computers. He has exhibited in public galleries' + ' and artist run centers throughout Canada, as well as in the United States' + ' and South America. He has been working with the Internet since 1994' + ' and is coordinator of ' + ' Manitoba Visual Arts Network. He is, in addition, an award-winning' + ' printmaker.' + ' He has also published three books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in many ' + ' journals in Canada and The U.S.' + ''; Texts[7] = '
' + 'Re-reading the News (2002) downloads the front page of newspapers as essentially raw' + ' data, enabling users to reformat it to their own specifications. The raw' + ' data appears in one browser window, reformatting occurs in a second. \"Re-reading\"' + ' sees the newspaper\'s format as a tendentious metaphor, an interface for' + ' controlling our responses. It interrupts this effort at control,' + ' offering the raw data out of which we can form our own patterns, placing us back at' + ' the center of confusion from which the desire for metaphor (and interface) springs.' + ' But, theory apart, it can serve the very practical function of allowing users to create a single' + ' interface--one daily newspaper--made up of news drawn from a variety of sources.' + ' The project makes extensive use of the W3C Document Object Model.' + ''; Texts[8] = '
Note: \"Re-reading\" requires either Netscape 7.0 or IE 6.0 or compatible browsers
' + 'Timeline (2004) is based on' + ' the device used in packages like Adobe Premiere and Macromedia for' + ' sequencing images, video clips, and sound files. There are many' + ' reasons why the metaphor of the timeline appealed to me. First,' + ' there are the obvious associations with time and aging, and this' + ' work began as a poem about getting old. But the timeline also embodies a' + ' particular kind of time--that is, it lets you replay,' + ' much as we replay for ourselves the images and words that make up' + ' our lives. On the one hand there is the sense that there\'s a' + ' continuous flow, a whole video that makes up our lives, but on the' + ' other there\'s the sense of the fragmentary and the random.' + ' ' + ' Timeline is a metaphor for this contradiction. The user' + ' creates a poem out of random acts, i.e. by selecting' + ' images from a database of images each of which is associated with a' + ' few lines from the original poem. The associations are not known in' + ' advance. But more importantly, one doesn\'t know the shape of the' + ' original poem which, like our ideologies and abstractions, may turn' + ' out, in the long run, not to be relevant to the poem that one' + ' creates out of the particulars of one\'s own experience. So, the poem' + ' is in effect many poems, capable of being manifested in an enormous' + ' range of image sequences; with the "Timeline" software you can play and' + ' replay your combinations and recombinations of image and text.' + ''; Texts[9] = '
Note: Timeline requires a minumum of IE 5.5, Netscape 7.1, or Mozilla 1.5.
' + 'bigQuestions.com (2004)is a data-mining and database project in two parts:'; Texts[10] = '
' + ' 1. It searches web sites and library catalogues for words which signify the' + '"big" questions of philosophy, religion, and science. It stores the' + ' words and their contexts in a searchable database, which at present ' + ' consists of approximately 65,000 library and 45,000 web entries. ' + ' Visitors to the site can then search the database for terms other than' + ' the big terms and get some idea how these terms are used and' + ' contextualized in our culture.
' + ' 2. It gives visitors to the site a chance to watch in real time as' + ' the data-mining software does its searches, showing both the raw' + ' accumulation of data found and the software code itself in action.
' + 'The aim of Bstat Zero (2005)' + ' is to give some insight into the contexts of new media' + ' culture as revealed by network traffic.'; Texts[11] = '' + 'On the technical level, it\'s a tool for analyzing web traffic across' + ' web sites. Using a browser' + ' the viewer can explore a set of' + ' hypertext views of the network traffic going in and' + ' out of one or more web sites.
' + ' While BstatZero shows the standard statistics found in' + ' web log analyzers, its emphasis is on where the' + ' traffic comes from (countries, domains, IP addresses, browsers,' + ' operating systems), and how it has been "referred" to the site (search' + ' engines, search terms, other web sites). In using ' + ' hypertext views, it emphasizes' + ' relationships rather than statistics.
' + ' Individual copies of BstatZero run on participating web sites,' + ' while a master copy runs on BstatZero.org. It creates databases on the' + ' participating sites which are posted monthly to the coordinating database' + ' at BstatZero.org, where viewers can do cross-site searches and' + ' investigations of new media traffic.
' + 'What we see in our browsers is based on intricate and behind-scenes ' + 'technologies that have offered us a new imaginative space. It\'s a space ' + 'like a vast architectural structure in which the individual mind is ' + 'always at the center, a space both public and private, the shape and ' + 'extent of which can only be fragmentarily imagined.
' + 'Bstat Zero grew out of this understanding of the Internet. It opens up ' + 'to inspection otherwise hidden interconnections among new media web ' + 'sites, which are its focus, helping us to get some sense of the ' + 'networked space that new media inhabits.
' + 'BstatZero is a ' + ' Whitney Museum of Art Artport project (February 2006) ' + ' and was nominated for a ' + ' Viper International Award (2006).'; + '
' + 'Cityscapes (2008)' + ' provides a common ground where people can share their experiences of the places where they live and have lived, or visited, even of places they\'ve imagined, read about, hope or have hoped to visit. Cityscapes is not only the reflection of a physical community but of a shared imaginative space.' + ' To read about some of the ideas behind it, see ' + ' Cityscapes Aesthetic.' + ''; Texts[12] = '
room535.org is the web site of Myron Turner, a printmaker and internet and multi-media artist.' + ' The site was developed using DHTML, or Dynamic HTML, which combines' + ' Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Javascript is a programming language' + ' embedded in web browsers. HTML defines formatting codes' + ' used to mark up a document so that it can take shape on the screen.' + ' CSS gives the designer' + ' added flexibility to stylize HTML documents. A number of the features' + ' relating to the images displayed on this site can be controled from' + ' a control page.' + ''; var Levels = new Array(); Levels[1] = 'All of the web sites linked to' + ' from this page were developed by Myron Turner and relate to his personal work.' + ' If you would like to see other examples of his work for the web and/or to' + ' consult him about developing a web site for you, you can contact him by' + ' email
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