Who is Jim Andrews

Who is Jim Andrews?

Jim Andrews is a Canadian writer, visual poet, musician, web artist and mathematic who does his work in a multimedia form. He publishes all his works in his page web. These works present a lot of visual and musical animation elements. There is here a short chronology of the most important aspects of his life:

1990:

· Internet becomes to be famous in the world.

· He comes back to university to study ‘science computer’.

· He plays the drums in a group called The Laughing Boot Quintet.

· He publishes a magazine literary called And Yet using the computer programme PageMaker 2.0.

· He starts doing visual poetry using CorelDraw.

1995:

· He has already connection to Internet.

· He begins to programme and make his works by means of web’s programmes.

· He reads and writes a lot of poetry and begins to works with Photoshop and bitmap programmes.

1996:

· He writes the famous pop-up poems

1997:

· He begins to work with DHTML (dynamic HTML) and creates Seattle Drift.

· He also creates Enigma n and Enigma n²

· He lives in Seattle until 2000

His works

ESSAYS (1995-2003) Written works where he speaks about the new mass media.

POP-UP POEMS (1996-1999)

THE PEN(1997)

SEATTLE DRIFT (1997) and ENIGMA N (1998) Both works are interactive and allow people to take part in it. These are the first works he did in DHTML code.

STIR FRY TEXTS (1999-2000)

MILLENIUM LYRIC and TIME PIECE (2000) Published in DHTML code.

VISMU INTERACTIVE AUDIO (2001)

NIO (2001) A very interesting page web where the reader (the cybernaut) not only can read but also can interact. People can create themselves music according to their likings. This work has received good criticism –for example in New York Times.

ARTEROIDS 2.5(2003) A game which words are shot. It becomes more complex as far as you win. It has a previous version: Arteroids 1.

PARIS CONNECTION(2003) Paris Connection examines the art of a loosely-knit group of six Parisian web artists who-individually and collaboratively-are producing some of the most vibrant and challenging work on the Web today. Via interviews, profiles, essays, interactive works, graphical explorations, and links to the actual works, Paris Connection offers perspectives on the artists-individually, and as a group-within the broader context of contemporary art. Paris Connection is international and collaborative: it is presented in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English; it is co-produced and co-published by sites in Rio, Berlin, New York, and Toronto; the 15 person production network is located in Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Paris Connection was made possible by an Artist in Residence grant to Jim Andrews from the New Media Arts program of the Canada Council.

VISPO: It is a page web where it is picked up all his works. It has different sections:

- Writings. Here are included poems and short stories.

- A section where are included some works by Ana María Uribe.

- Animisms.

- An audio section.

What is Visual Poetry?

The term visual poetry is sometimes related to the term hypertext poetry. For a better understanding let’s compare both definitions which are found on the Internet.

On the one hand, visual poetry is a form of experimental poetry in which the picture is predominant over the rest of the components. That form of non-verbal poetry constitutes a genre himself. His creators move to the border between genres, such as painting, music, theatre; and the poetry himself creating other poetry forms.

Visual poetry is influenced by which is usually described as being Intermedia. Visual poems incorporate text, but the text may have primarily a visual function. Visual poems often incorporate significant amounts of non-text imagery in addition to text.

On the other hand, hypertext poetry is a form of e-poetry. It is often very visual, thus seeping into hypertext fiction and visual arts. A definition would include its use of links using hypertext mark-up. The links mean that a hypertext poem has no set order, the poem moving or being generated in response to the links that the reader/user chooses. It can either involve set words, phrases, lines, etc. that are presented in variable order but sit on the page much as traditional poetry does, or it can contain parts of the poem that move and / or mutate.

Both definitions have to do with each other but it seems the second definition – hypertext poetry- is more suitable to which we are working in.

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