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I'm in Midland, Michigan for the Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship that I won. I look out on pines, hardwoods, ferns. I've seen many brown rabbits. Today, I walked along the Tittabawassee River, thinking at times about the Water project I'll do with Reiner.
Philippe Castellin wrote that he expected the "Jill Swimming" piece for the Aix-en-Provence show and that it was in the program. So I felt I had to send it. I was unable to find the work at the site. After politely asking where it was, I was sent the following message:
hi christy,I was right the first time. Ok, don't spend any time on the negative. I'll try to place the work into another setting. "Jill Swimming into Herself" deserves the correct title. A friend sent me the URL; the title was wrong, the attributions were wrong. Onward. I'll try to take some photos here, perhaps the home of architect Alden Dow, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright. Part of the home is made of cinder blocks. I'm working on reviewing work for the Millennium Project, writing responses in the Virtual AdvisZer Column. Sue, Margie Luesebrink, Janet Holmes and I are applying to present at the Digital Arts Conference in the fall. The subject will be journals and the workshop. I'm creating the web page for that; I made a little Flash film.
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I've begun my project for the Dow Fellowship in Midland. I've been working for hours on a drag and drop script for text, which I now find doesn't go across platforms. So much for page 1. Frustrating.
Thursday turned in the Proposal for the Digital Arts and Culture Conference in Atlanta.
Received word from Philippe that he had corrected the name and attributions of the Aix-en-Provence piece. So there is reconciliation, forgiveness. I struggle with forgiveness. Not easy.
Put up the Friday AdviZer column.
Tomorrow a tour of the Dow Chemical Company. Every week day we have lunch together, the three other fellows and the staff at the Creativity Center. We are getting to know each other. I like everyone here. They had a party for us the other day at the Alden Dow home. Quite a place, built in the 1930's, ultra modern for its time. Porch over the water, watching the rain and eating shrimp. Sounds, um, uptown, but everyone seems pretty normal, unpretentious.
I have to write a 500 word essay on my trAce activities for a business arts magazine in England, deadline June 19.
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This is the week I'll be a guest for a class at the New School, beginning, I believe, at the end of this week. A hard weekend in some ways. Everything for this new project seems difficult. The text is the main thing, but I'm trying to do some graphically exciting things with text. Drag and drop remains the problem. I have received word from Java developers. They all say it can be done and that their scripts do it, but I haven't seen the proof. I have seen a couple that worked cross browser, but they were so specialized that the least change threw the browser into a stall. Finally had to abandon a script because every error caused Netscape to crash. The project title is "The Roots of Nonlinearity: Toward a Theory of Web-Specific Art-Writing." I have five unlinked pages so far.
Steve Robitaille at Santa Fe Community College would like for me to be a guest online for his class. I'll do that in July.
The Creativity Center here is having a conference. Someone dropped out and I've been offered the slot. I'll present work in mid-July. I've been invited to show work in London at the Poetry Society. I heard from Andrew Chetty about the date of my visit for the Nottingham Now Project. Still no answers to my questions about Reiner. I'm hoping they'll provide travel funds.
I'm receiving inquiries about the Millennium submissions, but have yet to see a real project. I do believe there will be some! So far promises from San Francisco, Montreal, Wollongong, Merida and Nottingham. This will be quite international. As soon as this is done, I will begin curaing an issue of Riding the Meridian, Jennifer Ley's publication.
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I have a great feeling about the "My Millennium" Project. I have work from Russia, Canada, U.S., England, Australia and Mexico. This will be a truly international issue. Now I must design a program for the contributors!
I have eleven pages for my Roots of Nonlinearity Project. I feel terrific about the amount of work I've been able to create. I've settled into a rhythm of almost a page a day! Because of the drag and drop problem, they are all Netscape-
I've answered several questions for Robert Kendall's class at the New School. This is fun. I hope I receive more.
Today I had lunch with my colleagues and creativity center staff on the porch of the Alden B. Dow home. Dow, former apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, created a home with many angles and overhangs. Unusual color schemes. For example, in the submarine room, window sills are at pond level; the ceiling is hot pink and the carpet moss green. Exterior has copper roof and white blocks (made of cinders from Dow furnaces).
I'll be showing work at the Creativity Conference here and now will be on a panel with my fellow fellows.
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