{"id":9283,"date":"2011-12-08T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=9283"},"modified":"2011-12-08T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:11:42","slug":"new-online-art-exhibit-at-terminalapsu-org-reinterprets-classic-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/12\/08\/new-online-art-exhibit-at-terminalapsu-org-reinterprets-classic-american-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"New online art exhibit at TERMINALapsu.org reinterprets classic American literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – The video clips seem to be strung together randomly, with no connection to each other at all. They include a ship tossing in the waves of a storm, a close-up shot of a stuffed animal\u2019s eyes and a music video for the rock band Heart\u2019s 1986 hit \u201cThese Dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

But these aren\u2019t simply arbitrary videos compiled from the Internet. The media artist xtine burrough found the clips by typing keywords from Walt Whitman\u2019s 1865 poem commemorating the death of President Abraham Lincoln, \u201cO Captain, My Captain,\u201d into the website YouTube.<\/p>\n

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New online art exhibit at TERMINALapsu.org<\/p><\/div>\n

The resulting videos have been linked together to create a new piece of Web art, \u201cO BROWSER, MY BROWSER,\u201d an allegory on \u201cthe impending death of the Web,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The work is a part of a new exhibit, \u201cBrowser Poems by xtine burrough,\u201d which opened last month on the website TERMINALapsu.org, a space sponsored by Austin Peay State University\u2019s Department of Art and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts to showcase and examine Internet and new media art.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a>

Jack Kerouac\u2019s novel \u201cOn the Road\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition to \u201cO BROWSER, MY BROWSER,\u201d the exhibit offers new interpretations of two other classic works of American literature \u2013 Jack Kerouac\u2019s novel \u201cOn the Road\u201d and Adrienne Rich\u2019s poem \u201cWaiting For You at the Mystery Spot.\u201d Burrough created these works using hyper text markup language (HTML) and cascading style sheets (CSS), both Web-based languages.<\/p>\n

For the piece, \u201cOn the Web,\u201d she presents the original, single scroll of paper that Kerouac famously typed his novel on, but she replaces all instances of the word \u201croad\u201d with the word \u201cbrowser.\u201d<\/p>\n

In burrough\u2019s piece based on Rich\u2019s poem \u201cWaiting For You at the Mystery Spot,\u201d she invites viewers to find the \u201cmystery spot\u201d link on a screen featuring floating text from the poem. The link takes visitors to the website www.mysteryspot.com<\/a>, which promotes a strange, alternative tourist destination in California.<\/p>\n

Burrough, co-author of Digital Foundations (2009), is a renowned media artist who, according to the TerminalAPSU.org site, \u201cuses social networking, databases, search engines, blogs and applications in combination with popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Mechanical Turk, to create web communities promoting interpretation and autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the artist or her online exhibit, contact APSU associate professor of art Barry Jones at jonesb@apsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – The video clips seem to be strung together randomly, with no connection to each other at all. They include a ship tossing in the waves of a storm, a close-up shot of a stuffed animal\u2019s eyes and a music video for the rock band Heart\u2019s 1986 hit \u201cThese Dreams.\u201d But these aren\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[7543,12051,23,589,1761,262,5192,825,12052,26643,7545,5953],"class_list":["post-9283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-adrienne-rich","tag-apsu","tag-apsu-center-of-excellence-for-the-creative-arts","tag-apsu-department-of-art","tag-austin-peay-state-university","tag-barry-jones","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-jack-kerouac","tag-videos","tag-walt-whitman","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2pJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9284,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions\/9284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}