The Yes Men

hijinks

The Yes Men agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of their hijinks to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of business. In other words, the Yes Men are team players… but they play for the opposing team.

Be a Yes Man! If you have your own hijinks to report, join us! We would love to add your story to the Yes Men website. Fill out the Report of Identity Correction and you too will be a Yes Man, whether you like it or not.

[ www.theyesmen.org ]

WRT: Writer Response Theory

Explorations in Digital Character Art

WRT is a blogging collective dedicated to the discussion and exploration of digital character art — any art involving electrons and making use of letters, alphanumerics, or other characters in an interesting way. Our primary focus is on active and interactive works, in which users input text and receive textual responses as output. Our URL (Writer Response Theory) is a play on Reader Reponse Theory and therefore shifts the investigative focus to a reader/writer whose textual input will change the works they encounter. We see ourselves as writers or creators responding to theory; as writers creating theory, a theory which is also a response to writers.

Some objects of study include ASCII art, blog fiction, chatbots, email fiction, e-poetry, hypertext fiction, and interactive ficition (IF). What are the methods of design, the modes of usage, and the relationships between scriptons and textons in these art forms?

WRT is an open site. Everyone who reads this blog is a member and may suggest a thread or a link. As long as it pertains to digital letter/character art we will post and pursue it. WRT is a research and discussion collective not an announcement site.

What does W.R.T. stand for? W.R.T. Writer Response Theory, We Realize Text, Web-Ridden Texts, With Respect To, Wrong Right Theory, Wide Robed Techies, We Rotten Tomatoes, and perhaps just WriTing.

[ wrt.ucr.edu/wordpress ]

The Soulcage Department

Animation Illustration Konzeption

Seit der Gründung im Jahr 2002 hat sich das SOULCAGE DEPARTMENT im Bereich Konzeption und Produktion computeranimierter Projekte international einen Namen gemacht. Die liebevoll umgesetzten Animationen, die Designs der Charaktere, ihre Geschichten und der immer wieder originelle Look der Produktionen mögen Schuld daran sein.

Auszeichnungen wie „Junior-Talente des Jahres 2002“ vom Art Directors Club für Deutschland, sowie „Talents Of The Year Runner Ups 2003“ des Art Directors Club of Europe, der erste Platz beim Animago 2003 und weltweite Screenings auf diversen internationalen Festivals sind wichtige Bestätigungen für die Arbeit des DEPARTMENTS. Dabei kommt die Anerkennung einerseits von der kreativen, andererseits von der technischen Seite der Branche.

The Soulcage Department
Plantage 3
28215 Bremen
Germany

[ www.soulcage-department.de ]

Open News Network

With O-N-N the reader becomes the author

The Open News Network (O-N-N) endeavors to bring together the creative and communicative potential of Internet users in order to better represent the opinions of each individual in the media landscape. Going beyond the established frontiers of news distribution and media technologies, members of O-N-N communicate using peer to peer networks to try to get individual opinions established in the real world. Are journalists still necessary in the age of the Internet? With O-N-N the reader becomes the author.

[ www.o-n-n.org ]