My Books

peripheral blogging

Matt finally blogged FranÁois Lachance’s peripheral approach to blogging – FranÁois, as you’ll have noticed, has no blog of his own, but posts his thoughts in other bloggers’ comments, forging otherwise undiscussed connections between the bloggers in the cluster he visits, or […]

location based art

Scott linked to an article on location based narrative, which inspired me to do a little searching which led me to a great list of artworks that use wireless technology.

prom

I got invited to the Prom! Goodness. What shall I wear?

erotogod

Anita Hammer has a review of Erotogod at kunstkritikk.no. Erotogod is an installation and/or performance where viewers enter through a large speculum. Reading that was enough to make me feel queasy. I suspect men’s connotations to speculums are likely rather different to […]

nettverket som kunstrom

I wrote a short, link-filled sketch of networked art for kunstkritikk.no, and it’s up today. In Norwegian.

solitude

The traditional solitude of writers is so different from the companionship of blogs. Marguerite Duras wrote alone: The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else […]

links permitted

A Norwegian court has found that Startsiden.no can keep its links to filesharing systems that let you download music without paying for it. Restricting the right to link would compromise freedom of speech, the lawyers decided. Good for them.

friends

Ah. My girlfriends came over for dinner and planned the party. We’ve grown since planning parties to celebrate completed MAs, but we have just as much fun. Now I have a toastmaster, shoppers, party game organisers, cake bakers. It’s going to be […]

fanning

This fanning collection of networked art is beautiful in itself. I love running my mouse up and down the lines to watch them open and close, though I’m a little sad that this works better on a Windows machine than on a […]