Heart
Essay
Heart Essay is a musical instrument where each letter of the
alphabet corresponds with a sound. A compilation of phrases
(they are excerpts from e-mails, conversations and thoughts
centering on a lesbian relationship I had in London) merge reality
with fiction to produce a Utopia. Historically feminist writers
have used Utopian techniques, expressing their ways of seeing
as fiction, because men cannot conceive these views as a reality.
Utopias can be an easier way to integrate new ways of thinking
into society.
The fictional aspect can buffer any shock or resistance that
may arise from more confrontational ways of giving political
information (i.e. manifesto).
Since
I started producing digital art, I've been carrying a type
of logic (stream of thought/association) through all of my
work including writing. I've started focusing on grammatical
structures and how fractured, pieced together digital logic
ends up poetic when applied to words. I've noticed a resemblance
between the
Lillian
Coryn
Lillian
currently works as a web designer in London focusing on Shockwave
and Flash technologies. Graduating with a Fine Arts degree
in photography at the University of Florida, all of her interactive
work is strongly based in photography. Before working at Giant
Step, Lillian designed for the COLORS
website in Italy. Recent art exhibitions include "Opera
Totale" in Mestre, Italy and "Your are SO Postmodern"
in Kassel, Germany.
Drop Lillian a line at lillian@digitlondon.com.
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broken English of a person who isn't proficient with the language
and what happens when I try to create a grammatical structure
with programs/systems. One of the main hurdles of being able
to simulate the spoken English language is to recreate the
emotions, connotations and grammatical structures that arise
from lived/shared experiences. I'm trying to
create emotion in this new media. Most of my work focuses
on cultivating new ways of interfacing with the computer.
Each new way of interaction is meant to be seen as a new form
of sensory perception, which is what life is
about to me.
Musical
notes produced by Ray Sweeten in Treviso, Italy.
-- Lillian
Coryn
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