slippingglimpse

Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo

Artist Statement

slippingglimpse is a 10-part generative Flash poem combining videos of ocean patterns with text. The work introduces three modes of reading: fullscreen, high resolution, and scroll-text mode. In the first two modes, fragments of words and phrases appear in the ocean, mapped and remapped to movement in the video image, turning from an unreadable text to a decipherable composition. In fullscreen mode, ocean videos "read" the poem text somatically or gesturally. In high-rez mode, the ocean-patterning itself is best visible, those patterns the videographer set out to capture and enhance. Only the scroll-text mode permits human reading of linear print text. The language of the poem comes in part from sampling and recombining the words of visual artists as they reflect on their own digitally inflected work (among them, Helaman Ferguson, Manfred Mohr, David Berg, Ellen Carey, Frances Dose, Marius Johnston, Jon Lybrook, Susan Rankaitis, Hildegard of Bingen). See also the Introduction link in the piece.

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Biographies

lives in New York. Her book of poems + CD, Zone : Zero, will appear from Ahsahta in 2008. Other books of poems are V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L’una, True North, The Red Virgin, and Give the Body Back. She also makes collaborative hypermedia works, which include , , and . The most recent is slippingglimpse, introduced at e-Poetry 2007 in Paris in May.

Her essays about electronic literature have appeared in the , and volumes from MIT Press and Intellect Press (England). A director of the , she co-edited the first (2006) volume of the and the current issue of . In 2008 she will be teaching at the University of Utah.

Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo is a new media artist, technologist and educator. She exhibits, performs, publishes and presents her work in media arts, electronic literature and design education. She lives in New York City where she directs the Integrated Design Curriculum at Parsons The New School for Design, and is an Assistant Professor in the College of Methods. Cynthia has also taught art, programming, and design courses in Colombia, New York, Dominican Republic and Japan.

She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes (Bogota) and a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University, (New York).