Randy Adams - CV (January 2005)
2685 Christie Street
Nanaimo, BC
V9S 3X4
(250)751-7572
runran at runran dot net

• Digital Works
  • CONTACT is a live performance featuring electronic soundscapes composed by Steve Gibson and digital imagery by Randy Adams.
    [Online Studio - progress report: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/studio/radams/steve/digital_images.html]
    
    CONTACT has been performed at the following venues:
    • Interactive Futures: New Media Crossing Boundaries, Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival (30 January 2004).
    • New Forms Festival: Sonic Design, Western Front, Vancouver (14 October 2004).
      [WF archive listing: http://www.front.bc.ca/details.p?record=1624]
    • Music in the Wires Symposium (sponsored by CTHEORY): Visual Arts Building, University of Victoria (26 November 2004).
      [http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=432]
  
  
• Online Projects
  • trAce Online Studio: digital images, animations, hypertext, hypermedia, selected texts, spoken word, net journal (1998-2004).
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/studio/radams/].
  • Imaginary Post Office: a collection of texts and digital images submitted by over 50 artists and writers from around the world (1999-2004).
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/studio/radams/post/postinfo.html].
  • Opening the Space Toolkit and Guide (a guide to new media writing) - produced as part of Mapping the Transition from Page to Screen, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Board through the AHRB’s Innovation Awards Scheme. It was designed by Simon Mills and compiled by Randy Adams, Kate Pullinger, Sue Thomas and Helen Whitehead (2003).
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/transition/].
  
  
• Screenings & Artist's Talks
  • Claims (collaborative hypermedia - animations, digital images, javascript, writing): screening and artist's talk, 2nd trAce International Conference on Writing and the Internet, Nottingham Trent University, England (16th July 2002).
    [ http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/studio/radams/claims/claims.html ]
  • net_work: an artist's talk and demonstration, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia (March 30, 2003).
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/review/index.cfm?article=67#net_work]
  • Online Publishing: editor's talk, Interactive Futures [ New Media Crossing Boundaries ], Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival (31 January 2004).
  • reel-writing [ digital writing ] screening and artist's talk: 3rd trAce International Symposium on Writing and the Internet, Nottingham Trent University, England (13 July 2004).
    [http://www.runran.net]
  
  
• Online Publications
  • frAme 6: Online journal of Culture & Technology.
    [Being Online, digital images, 2001 -- http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame6/]
  • BeeHive: hypertext/hypermedia literary journal providing a venue for creative literary content that explores the potential of network-based creativity.
    [ [con]artist, hypertext, digital images, network appropriation, 2001 - http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_apps42/]
  • Artifacts: An online gallery affiliated with Web Del Sol, exploring the nature of art, especially photography, in hyperspace
    [The Lady from Donalda, illustrated hypertext, 2001 - http://webdelsol.com/Artifacts/darkroom1.html].
  • Riding the Meridian: web-specific work featuring a kaleidoscopic view of creative approaches being used today by writers and artists on the Web.
    [Encounters & Allusions, illustrated hypertext, 2000 - http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/radams4.html].
  • Jumpin' at the Diner: a survey of web work created by men curated by Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink with Jennifer Ley. Commentary by Jay David Bolter and Stephanie Strickland.
    [Ctrl Esc, illustrated hypertext, 2000 - http://califia.hispeed.com/Jumpin/adams.htm].
  • Able Muse: online review of prose, poetry, and art.
    [After Anno Dimini, digitally altered photographs, 2000 - http://www.ablemuse.com/2k/radams-photo.htm].
  
  
• Online Collaborations
  • The Personalization of Complexity: a feature in trAce's electronic magazine frAme, devoted to theory and social commentary. Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA (M.D. Coverley) "explores the ways in which each of our personal computers have become idiosyncratic, individualized entities, only sometimes manageable by the owners.
    [Poem, file260, 2001 - http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame5/coverley/index.html].
  • PbN Fridge Magnet Project: online feature in conjunction with Burn Graceland Burn, an exhibit at the ART GALLERY OF CALGARY, Calgary, Alberta, Canada OCT 19 - NOV 18 2000, curator: Bart Habermiller
    [mail art, computer punch card, fridge magnet, hypertext: Fragments & Artifacts, 2000 - http://warnell.com/syntac/fridge1.htm]
  • Super Human Genome Project: a collaborative work of 13 Web artists and poets interpreting the text: "SEQUENCE OF DNA REPRESENTING THE THE HISTORY OF GENOME PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE A SEQUENCE OF DNA REPRESENTING THE HISTORY OF DNA"
    [concrete poem, 2001 - http://warnell.com/syntac/shgp.htm].
  • Gimokud: The Melting Soul: collaborative digital images produced by students of the University of the Philippines and selected artists
    [digital image, 2000 - http://www.hoydigiteer.org/gimokud/main/randy.html].
  • Erewhon Project: "One hundred and twenty years after Higgs accidentally crossed into the land of Erewhon, his great-great-grandson, Nosnibor Higgs, opened a lodge to cater to mountain-climbers wishing to tackle Arowhena's Challenge, the highest mountain in the Erewhonian mountain range. Today, thirteen years later, Nosnibor's son, Senoj, continues to offer hospitality to climbers and X-treme sports enthusiasts."
    [hypertext, digital images, 2000, http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/mcdonald/imagc/erewhon/Cover.htm]
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• Online Journalism
  • Antennae in Anatolia: feature - photo/text; media commentary, re: the delivery of the first television to a small village near Afyon, in West Central Turkey, May 2, 1998.
    [http://www.feedmag.com/html/feedline/98.05adams/document23.html]
  • Alberta Foundation For The Arts: online catalogue essay, June, 1998
    [http://www.affta.ab.ca/gallery/nafaessays.html]
  • turbulance.org - Interview: Jim Andrews, founder of webartery, and creator of Nio, an interactive audio visual work for the web -- published on turbulance.org, spring 2001.
    [href="http://turbulence.org/Works/Nio/interview.htm]
  • Francesca da Rimini - article and interview: Australian new media artist, 22/Aug/2002.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/showcase/index.cfm?article=13]
  • Ted Warnell - Canadian codepoet: article and interview, 02/Oct/2002.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/showcase/index.cfm?article=24]
  • Nicolas Clauss: Flying Puppet- article and interview: Paris-based painter and new media artist, 31/Oct/2002.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/review/index.cfm?article=31]
  • At Large in Cyberspace - first in an occassional series of net commentary, 14/Jan/2003.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=38]
  • Paris Connection: a project in critical media - A review of Paris Connection [web.art being done in Paris by six artists: Jean-Jacques Birgé, Nicolas Clauss, Frédéric Durieu, Jean-Luc Lamarque, Antoine Schmitt, and servovalve. Via interviews, profiles and other writings, Paris Connection offers perspective on the artists individually and as a loosely-knit group.], and an interview with Jim Andrews, writer/programmer/web.artist, who organized Paris Connection, 17/May/2003.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/review/index.cfm?article=68]
  • net_work: review of an artist's talk and demonstration, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia, 13/May/2003.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/review/index.cfm?article=67#net_work]
  • Interactive Futures: New Stories, New Visions - a review of The Interactive Futures forum, held at the University of Victoria, 18/Mar/2003.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/review/index.cfm?article=60]
  • The Wandering Library - an index of webpages presenting images and email statements from several artists who participated in The Wandering Library, an itinerant project initiated by the Centro Pace (Peace Center), the Archivio Giovani Artisti del Comune di Venezia (Venice Young Artists' Archive) and The International Artists' Museum (Read: Essays), 29/Aug/2003.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/review/index.cfm?article=78#note]
  • At Large in Cyberspace - second in an occassional series of net commentary, 09/Dec/2003.
    [http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Opinion/index.cfm?article=86]
  
  
• Online Affiliations
  • Z I N E n new media: online journal of new media experimental visual literary theory practice.
    [http://warnell.com/zinen/zn_web.htm]
  • webartery.com: A collaborative site presenting various artists who work in web art -- a listing of member sites, a chatroom, and interviews.
    [http://webartery.com/defib/webarterymembers.htm]
  • netart: Net art / web art, a project to develop a web art presence with South Africa.
    [Hypertext, 2000 - http://home.mweb.co.za/m_/m_n/mtn/netart.html]
  • Electronic Literature Directory: A resource for readers and writers of digital texts, providing an extensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. Entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements.
    [http://directory.eliterature.org]