Path: world!decwrl!apple!well!artcomtv@well.sf.ca.us From: artcomtv@well.sf.ca.us (Art Com) Newsgroups: alt.artcom Subject: ART COM Magazine, October 1990 release Keywords: network generated collaborative narrative/personae Message-ID: <20874@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 2 Oct 90 08:20:58 GMT Sender: couey@well.sf.ca.us Lines: 228 /\ ___ ___ ___ ___ __ __ /__\ /__/ / / / / / / / / \/ \ / /__ /__/ / / / ----------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 1990 NUMBER 42 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to ART COM, an online magazine forum dedicated to the interface of contemporary art and new communication technologies. You are invited to send information for possible inclusion. We are especially interested in options that can be acted upon: including conferences, exhibitions, and publications. Proposals for guest edited issues are also encouraged. Send submissions to: well!artcomtv@uunet.uu.net artcomtv@well.sf.ca.us Back issues of ART COM can be accessed on the Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN) on the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL), available through the CompuServe Packet Network and PC Pursuit. To access the Art Com Electronic Network on the WELL, enter g acen at the Ok: prompt. The Art Com Electronic Network is also accessible on USENET as alt.artcom. For access information, send email to: artcomtv@well.sf.ca.us. *Guest Editor: Judy Malloy *Executive Editor: Carl Eugene Loeffler *Editor: Anna Couey *Systems: Fred Truck and Gil MinaMora ART COM projects include: ART COM MAGAZINE, an electronic forum dedicated to contemporary art and new communication technologies. ART COM ELECTRONIC NETWORK (ACEN), an electronic network dedicated to contemporary art, featuring publications, online art galleries, art information database, and bulletin boards. ART COM SOFTWARE, international distributors of interactive video and computer art. ART COM TELEVISION, international distributors of innovative video to broadcast television and cultural presenters. CONTEMPORARY ARTS PRESS, publishers and distributors of books on contemporary art, specializing in postmodernism, video, computer and performance art. ART COM, P.O. Box 193123 Rincon Center, San Francisco, CA, 94119-3123, USA. WELL E-MAIL: artcomtv TEL: 415.431.7524 FAX: 415.431.7841 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GUEST EDITORIAL: THIRTY MINUTES IN THE LATE AFTERNOON JUDY MALLOY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Judy Malloy (email: malloy@well.sf.ca.us) is a pop-conceptual artist whose recent works employ computer programming and computer networking systems to explore information, memory, and collaborative production. Malloy resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. -- the Editors - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THIRTY MINUTES IN THE LATE AFTERNOON In the text based cyberspace created by an electronic conferencing system, art is part of the group mind and the artist can shape art not only for that group mind but with that group mind. THIRTY MINUTES IN THE LATE AFTERNOON, a group written narrative, was developed in and became a part of the cyberenvironment of Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN) on the WELL. I have been producing online art in this environment since 1986. THIRTY MINUTES IN THE LATE AFTERNOON, which began on ACEN in May 1990, combined the interactive, collaborative qualities of my BAD INFORMATION BASES (1) with my use of the WELL's topic form as a narrative structure in UNCLE ROGER. (2) In THIRTY MINUTES, 3 characters were developed simultaneously by 15 writers. Topic 518 set the cyberspace stage in the time frame of the thirty minutes preceding the Loma Prieta earthquake: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Topic 518: THIRTY MINUTES IN THE LATE AFTERNOON By: Judy Malloy (malloy) on Sun, May 20, '90 THIRTY MINUTES IN THE LATE AFTERNOON takes place from 4:33 PM to 5:03 pm on Tuesday, October 17, 1989. There are three characters: John, Mary, and Rubber Duck. John and Mary have talked on the telephone several times since that Sunday afternoon two weeks ago when they met at a wedding reception in Tilden Park, but this is their first date. A few days ago, John invited Mary to watch game 3 of the World Series in his apartment in San Francisco. Mary accepted. In this half hour, John is in his apartment in San Francisco. Mary is in her car, on her way to John's apartment. At the same time, a street person called "Rubber Duck" because of his habit of muttering the words "Rubber Duck", is sitting on the steps of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A topic has been set up for each of these 3 characters. Topic entries will be the thoughts/memories of the characters as written by WELL users who take on the persona of the characters. Choose a character, enter the topic and speak/think as that character. Use the SET NAME command to change your name to that character, if you like. If you want, you can be more than one character. Each character is briefly described at the beginning of his or her topic. The information given about John is some of what Mary knows about him. The information given about Mary is some of what John knows about her. The information given about Rubber Duck is what the museum guards have observed about him. As the topics progress, we will know more about these three people. If one Mary's thoughts evolve around hatred of baseball stemming from a childhood encounter with a perverted second baseman, then it is a given that Mary hates baseball. If one John's thoughts turn to his brother in Atlanta who owes him money, then John acquires a brother in Atlanta. These are examples. Mary's attitude towards baseball has not yet been described, not do we know yet if John has any brothers at all. Because this is the group *mind* taking the persona of the characters, emphasis is on the characters' thoughts and their memories in the first person, in their own words...... The three topics will fill up simultaneously. The story will be finished when each topic has around 100 entries......." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In topics 519, 520, and 521, I outlined the characters. The topics were kept up for two weeks. Because the work was intended to simply *exist* in the cybercommunity, I did not specifically invite contributions. For the most part, those who participated, stumbled onto the work. For this issue of Art Com Magazine, the topic trappings have been removed, and the text has been arranged in three parallel columns. A small amount of text was cut to make the columns come out even. A few spelling mistakes were corrected. Otherwise, all the words remain as originally written. The contributors are listed at the top. Their contributions are keyed with the number beside their name in the list. The complete text is available online in the ACEN newsstand. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Judy Malloy 1. Judy Malloy, "Bad information in - bad information out." ART COM MAGAZINE 8(2) no. 30, 1988 2. Judy Malloy, "Uncle Roger, an online narrative database." in Press. LEONARDO. [Art and Telecommunications issue] THIRTY MINUTES IN THE LATE AFTERNOON by 1 Anna Couey 9 Tom Mandel 2 Abbe Don 10 Gil MinaMora 3 J. Matisse Enzer 11 Harold Poskanzer 4 Carole Gould 12 Howard Rheingold 5 ISAST 13 The Normals 6 Eleanor Kent 14 Fred Truck 7 Carl Loeffler 15 Kathleen Watkins 8 Judy Malloy (Producer) October 17, 1989 October 17, 1989 October 17, 1989 4:33 PM - 5:03 PM 4:33 PM - 5:03 PM 4:33 PM - 5:03 PM MARY RUBBER DUCK JOHN These pants are tighter rubber duck <8> This little sample tube than I thought. The rubber duck of UltraBrite denture cotton is too thin. The Rubber Duck! toothpaste smells good - way it stretches out When is my like Aqua Fresh - only makes my thighs look disability check stronger. really fat. I should coming? <9> It was only 39 cents. have worn the skirt. I need a grocery tastes funny. What if Maybe the spot would cart. <14> she see it and thinks I have come out with (singing) wear dentures? water. I should have put "....you're so I'll hide it somewhere. celery in the potato fine, you make in the medicine cabinet salad. <8> bathtime lots of behind the Why is there so much fun, Alka Seltzer Nighttime traffic? <8> rubber Cold Medicine. What if I hope he's as nice as duck I'm she spends the night and I remember him... he was awfullly fond of wants to brush her a little younger... how you..." <3> teeth? <8> old? can't remember... Rubber Duck I wonder if that 30-something... like the kitchen. <14> self-confident...but she Rubber Duck was a lousy piano involved with too many years...months... no, in Rubber Duck women... that bar... on the big <12> is it only sex? no, she sound... <3> I gotta pee. <10> was really nice at the I hate being late..<7> Rubber Duck! tape...that always this autopoesis relaxes me when I drive. stuff. I simply Ouch! (fumbles through tapes, can't see the (knicks himself none of which are in nervous system shaving) God, she will there properly marked as an think I'm such a jerk. cases) Damn, this car informationally (puts piece of toilet is a pit...i should have closed paper on face to keep cleaned my car. well, system.> <12> from bleeding) i'll see what's on the I'm gonna pee in Now, remember to take radio. (starts scanning the hole in the this off before she gets stations) <2> sculpture again here. <2> Zikes... that guy just wanna keep up Shit! I'm bleeding about hit me! <7> with the times. again... and I got it on gotta stop thinking Rubber Duck! my shirt too! <7> about the way his hair soon as the I wonder if I can get curls around his ears. guard turns the stain out with some better be careful. around. <10> seltzer. Emily says he has a lot (THE SOUND OF It's my favorite shirt. of girlfriends. ughh.. ONE HOLE GETTING I know better than to that weird rash on my PEED) <7> shave in my favorite back really itches. <8> Area equals pie shirt. Maybe I should go see r squared. Now what am I going to Dr. Jones, rubber wear? -------------------------------- END OF FILE --------------------------------