The other day, my friend, Wendy, asked about the status of an old collaborative project that was done for Networked Narratives, in which a bunch of us created artwork for a 360-degree immersive “Alchemy Lab” project. The project was created in ThingLink, but since I can’t justify the annual fee, the lab is only visible to myself, as the owner.
So I decided the best thing I could do is to give a screencast tour of the lab, if only to curate and archive it. The result is the video here, which is just me, clicking on icons to see if the media still lives where it once was located. It’s not perfect, but it’s something.
Read more about the project from a previous post.
And here is a presentation I had created for a conference workshop at one point, capturing some of the elements of the Alchemy Lab experiment:
Peace (on the tour),
Kevin
Many thanks for keeping at least a relic of the lab experience. The web, it frays, rips, without the caring weaver or mender.
I am the caring mender
But my skill is no match
For the holes that lie gaping
From bird sites gone feral.
I am the weaver
Choosing red threads
With an eye for colour
Yet my visible stitches
Crude and on show
Would make a finer coder
Turn in their digital grave.
Maybe one day we’ll have a bot to surf the web, find the holes and generate a patch of letters.
Thanks Kevin,
This was agave project and and now I can repair some of the holes in my blog post.
Poem on the anti-spam (vault cop)
The web is a vast vault
Some doors with keys
So many without
Where are the cops
When we need them
To stop the carnage
Of links gone rogue.
Poems are perfect comments, in my book (er, on my blog)
Kevin
Of links gone rogue
— Wendy T.
Some things fall
silent, quiet, as
they splinter apart
Our maps no longer
function as they
once did,
some lines now
barely navigable,
from here to nowhere
We orientate ourselves
to each other, then,
lights in a constellation