From: Thivai4062-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:34:31 EST
Subject: Fwd: Alt-X Update:  Going 3-D (fwd)


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  This is a site that is one of the leading areas of alternative expression on
the internet---dedicated to the investigation of new means of artistic
exploration that seeks to move past the corporate chain of control---a great
example of a "Temporary Autonomous Zone"
  
  Thivai
 



  Coming Soon:
  
  Alt-X, in conjunction with Berkeley Interactive Design, is about to launch
  the Internet's wildest 3-D storyworld narrative.  Called "Holo-X," this
  breathrough project integrates vrml (virtual reality modeling language),
  hypertext, audio, animation and all manner of Avant-Pop writing.
  
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  New at Alt-X:
  
  
  Amerika Online / GRAMMATRON
  
  
  Alt-X Publisher Mark Amerika's new Amerika On-Line column, This Could Be
  The First Day of The Rest of My Life, critifictionally explores the life of
  a new media artist surviving in New York City. Mark is currently
  Virtual-Artist-In-Residence at the Ars Electronica Future Lab in Linz,
  Austria, and his GRAMMATRON site has been recently presented/exhibited at
  SIGGRAPH 98 (Orlando), the Adelaide Arts Festival (South Australia),
  Virtual Worlds 98 (Paris), COMTEcart (Dresden), MUU Festival (Helsinki) and
  the "beyond interface" exhibition at the Museums and the Web conference in
  Toronto.  And finally, after eighteen months, the GTRON tour is coming to
  an end:  but not until Mark makes his final presentations in Tokyo
  throughout December.
  
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  Alt-X Audio
  
  The New York Times just said that "Alt-X Audio plays the best in
  hyperliterary audio art and streaming word dub."  Listen to us live on the
  Gogaga brand radio network (www.gogaga.com) on Saturday nights at 11:00
  p.m. Rocky Mountain Time.  Or click on our archives whenever you have time
  to listen.  Overseas friends can hear us on Sunday at 5:00 a.m. (hopefully
  it will catch you at the right time of day or night). In rotation now we
  have our most recent show, "Please Press Play," the latest release from
  Michael Hogg and Clare McGrogan, Brisbane, Australia electronic sound
  artists and collaborators on lowkey + nude. "Please Press Play" is a
  sensuous collaboration mixing the poetry and spoken-word talents of
  McGrogan and the electronic music of Hogg, the end result being a kind of
  Internet Musical Theater programmed to immerse the listener into an
  aurally-transmitted temporary autonomous zone. This special
  Alt-X Audio show was commissioned by the Australian Network for Art and
  Technology (ANAT) in conjunction with the Alt-X Online Publishing Network
  and the Australia Council. "Please Press Play" is only the latest
  web-project to grow out of ANAT's "deep immersions" project which matches
  up emerging Australian artists with popular art sites like Alt-X. Other
  streaming sound installations on Alt-X Audio feature experimental
  audio.art from all around the world including "Black Ice" by Yellowcake
  (Florence, Italy), "...Due Giorni Dopo" by Ricardo Dal Farra (Buenos
  Aires, Argentina), "The Beggar" by Jill Battson (Toronto, Canada), "Brain
  Damage" by Eric Lyon (Ogaki City, Japan), and "The Rose Village" by
  Matthew Malsky (Worcester, MA). Alt-X Audio is featured on the GOGAGA
  brand radio network. 
  
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  Black Ice:  Fiction For A Wired Culture
  
  Our current installation of Black Ice magazine features new work from a
  broad range of avant-fictioneers including Erik Belgum, Michael Krekorian,
  Ariel Monet, Bayard Johnson, and Jacques Servin. And don't forget to check
  out our extensive archives with recent contributions from from Rikki
  Ducornet, Jeffrey Deshell, Ron Silliman, Rosaire Appel, Judy Upjohn, Cris
  Mazza, Hal Jaffe, Ron Sukenick, D.N. Stuefloten and many others!!!
  
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  The Electronic Book Review
  
  The <electronic book review> has recently released the second part of its
  special image+narrative issue, sealing its reputation for offering the
  richest selection of critical hypertexts on the web; coming into its own
  after a site overhaul two years in the making, the journal is now itself a
  hypertext, an articulated weave of image, text, and visual design. Be sure
  to check out new online contributions from J. Hillis Miller, Janet Murray,
  Raymond Federman, Loss Glazier, and many others, with subjects ranging from
  mouseover poetics to the multimedia Victorian novel to holographic
  hyperfiction. Kicking off discussions in the reconfigured riPOSTe section,
  POSTMODERN CULTURE editor Stuart Moulthrop and ebr contributing editor Joel
  Felix offer two different economic models for web publishing; opting for
  niche-market advertising, ebr opens its screens to paid advertisements,
  while maintaining a policy of free access to all viewers, no subscription
  needed.
  
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  Hyper-X
  
  Alt-X, in conjunction with the trAce online writing community, is proud to
  announce our first International Hypertext Competition. First prize is 1000
  British Pounds (that's around $1600). We will also look at all of the
  entries for possible publication here at the Alt-X site where we already
  feature some of the most radical hypermedia narrative of our time including
  Patchwork-Grrrl Shelley Jackson's My Body, our recent Creative
  Exhibitionism show, featuring the web-work of Jacques Servin, Bobby Rabyd,
  and Eugene Thacker and our Digital Studies: Being In Cyberspace
  network-installation featuring some of the most talked-about net.art being
  coded in the electrosphere! This "network installation," curated by Mark
  Amerika and Rhizome editor Alex Galloway, includes work from all around the
  globe, with stellar contributions from Roy Ascott, Lev Manovich, Tina
  Laporta, Ricardo Dominguez, Vuk Cosic, Knut Mork, Erwin Redl, Dr. Hugo,
  INTIMA, the team of Claire Cann and Richard Allalouf, poembynari, and many
  more! The site has been translated into Spanish too at the Aleph
  Arts site. Unrepentant theory sluts will want to check out Hypertextual
  Consciousness.
  
  
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  Virtual Imprints
  
  Since Alt-X's inception in 1993, our primary mission has been to challenge
  both the art and literary publishing establishments by supporting some of
  the most iconoclastic voices and visions in the international art world.
  Our Alt-X Virtual Imprints section brings to web-readers some of this
  Century's most subversive narrative art. Check out our latest
  Electronic Re-Print, the Mythologies section from novelist Steve Katz's
  brilliant 1968 book Creamy & Delicious. Also, be sure to read our first two
  electronic reprints, Raymond Federman's Voice In The Closet and Ron
  Sukenick's landmark novel OUT. V-Imprints also features some excellent
  anthologies, including The Write Stuff, our collection of over
  50 interviews with writers and artists like Leslie Marmon Silko, William T.
  Vollmann, George Landow, Avital Ronell, Sadie Plant, Martin Amis, Marcos
  Novak, Mark Leyner, Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, Dennis Cooper,
  Kathy Acker and many, many more! For those readers interested in
  sexually-transgressive fiction, be sure to click into the Dirty Desires
  collection, while those of you curious about the attention-getting
  Avant-Pop cultural phenomenon will want to open up our In Memoriam To
  Postmodernism: Essays On The Avant-Pop. And as if this were not enough, our
  Networked Interzones: Genre-Blending anthology features a diversity of
  un-definable writing styles from Alt-X correspondents all
  around the globe!
  
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