Subject: Re: The Linguistic Turn
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:23:52 -0000


Hi Michael

In response to your call:


>The editors of Why not Sneeze? invite proposals and contributions of
>original work for THE LINGUISTIC TURN, a sub-site of language-based art
>works.
>

I have been slowly developing a piece of work which may fit your criteria:

>THE LINGUISTIC TURN seeks to acknowledge the textual dimension of Internet
>communication, while at the same time taking advantage of the advanced
>graphical, spatial and temporal features that are possible within the Web
>environment. We are interested in projects and pieces that function as
>autonomous works of art and that emphasise the materiality of language by
>making its physical dimension visible though spatialisation, time or
>movement.

URL: Storey.htm Mailto: Home Page

is a piece of work which began in the Storey Art Gallery in Lancaster. Two
pieces of sheet steel 6ft x 3ft x 2mm were leant against the gallery wall. A
piece of text taken from an e-mail discussion list was scratched on to its
surface with a sharp nail. The title of the work was laid out using
childrens magnetic letters. Visitors to the gallery were invited to leave
mail messages using either the nail, a permanent but less visible record
reminicent of pretechnological scratched marks, or using the magnetic
letters drawn from containers available nearby, these messages being more
vulnerable to alteration but more arresting.

I now have photographic documentation of the piece plus intend to make
imprints from the surface of the steel. I am looking to host these images as
part of a web based work which explores the themes exposed so far and
exploits the environment and media of the Web.

This is very much a work in progress at this stage. 2 images attached.
tn.jpg and tn1.jpg

Hope that's OK.

regards

Taylor

PS do you have access to any video conferencing, I would like to set up a
session in March. This would be an opportunity for students at this end, but
need not necessarily involve students at the other end - part of an
initiative to raise students awareness of their identity and place within
Europe.




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