http://www.ultimateconcern.net Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:54:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en framed is an interview project I've been working on over the last year with various new media artists and writers about their past, present and future practice. All of the interviewees involved were once featured in the frAme online journal I used to edit at trAce. http://www.framejournal.net/ http://www.ultimateconcern.net/research/framed/ Commissioned by www.hidrazone.com Gloryhole is a project that aims to fuse Simon Mills's interest in using randomness to explore meaning and affective intensity in multimedia art with Catherine Byron's poetry. http://www.hidrazone.com/artists/simon_mills/gloryhole/gloryhole.html http://www.ultimateconcern.net/creative/gloryhole/ A response to Walt Whitman's poem from Leaves of Grass, I think I could turn and live with the animals An exploration of fear and sublimity when the subject experiences the organic as profoundly other A reaction to the concept of nature in a technologised landscape An experiment with spontaneous meaning-making using the ... http://www.ultimateconcern.net/creative/let-us-turn/ A web project by Simon Mills & Alan Sondheim 'As the stunted attention-span of the mainstream-media loses focus on the remains of "Battlefield Iraq" we felt a place was needed to retain the memories and feelings of anyone affected by war (potentially anyone).' http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/warroom http://www.ultimateconcern.net/creative/the-war-room/ A web project by Simon Mills & Alan Sondheim A collaborative web project with writer/artist Alan Sondheim which invites further collaboration from the internet audience regarding the subject of loss. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/lost/ http://www.ultimateconcern.net/creative/lost/ Here are a selection of images I've created for postcards: Winter sunset through trees Oak Leaves Winter Trees Sculpture Winter Trees II http://www.ultimateconcern.net/creative/postcards/ Whilst rooting around some folders on an old PC the other day I rediscovered an old portfolio of commercial work I made a few years back. Pretty much all of the websites I worked on have all changed or gone offline now. So it goes . . . http://www.ultimateconcern.net/old_portfolio/ http://www.ultimateconcern.net/creative/old-portfolio/