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UGA artists bring virtual poetry to the streets of New York
Mark Callahan, 706/542-7270, mark@mazamedia.com
Christian Croft, 706/254-0814, xn@charter.net
Sep 11, 2003, 09:21
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ATHENS, Ga. — Pedestrians and gallery-goers in the Chelsea district of New York City will have a chance to encounter E.L.I., an interactive project developed by Ben Coolik, a graduate student in the University of Georgia Department of Drama and Theatre, and Christian Croft, a recent graduate from UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. The two are members of Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an experimental program for advanced research in the arts at UGA.
E.L.I. is short for Electro-Linguistic Imagination, a project that is part cyborg, part performance piece. Consisting of a media cart equipped with a computer, monitor and printer, E.L.I. is programmed to generate random poetry from a text database. E.L.I. the virtual poet gets around with the help of his fellow "real-time" artists, approaching passersby to share poetry in exchange for new vocabulary words for his database.
Coolik, Croft and fellow collaborator Todd Shalom, a graduate student at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, created E.L.I. while attending the prestigious Sidney Kahn Summer Institute at The Kitchen in New York. The theme of the program was new practices in performance and technology. The Kitchen holds a premier position in the world of visionary contemporary art, having hosted many historic presentations of music, dance, performance, film, video and performance by artists such as Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman and others.
The personification of E.L.I., who was referred to as the "new student" during the program, is no accident: the project intends to question the emerging role of the computer as a creative personality while underlining the dependence of the machine upon human beings. E.L.I. traveled the streets of New York in June, requesting extension cords from shop owners so he could reach his intended destination, the New York Public Library. Although they did not make it to the library that day (it rained), the performance was memorable enough to earn Coolik, Croft, Shalom and E.L.I. an invitation to return to New York for The Kitchen’s Fifth Annual Neighborhood Street Fair this month.
An example of E.L.I.’s poetry follows: The word stretches from new windows / Pointing virtual/ The spirit that moves in all things / Up spitting gorgeous.
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