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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:44:22 -0400 (EDT)
(apologies for cross-posting) ***Advertisement for Myself*** ======================================================================== I wanted to gather together URLs for purchase etc. of my work available online. This is probably incomplete, but for those who are interested, it is probably useful. Note that Printed Matter carries a number of things. I definitely recommend the books - VEL, The Wayward, Sophia, .echo. There are days I wish I was a store. Those are the days I could still wish. - Alan ======================================================================== Current Books, CDs, DVDs, etc.: VEL by Alan Sondheim $16.00 Based on Virtual Environment work, an intense selection of recent texts on motion capture, avatars, online experience, and language. A must! http://www.cafepress.com/cp/browse/Ne-6_N-1203+1016+20472268_nr-1_bt-1 .echo by Alan Sondheim Alan Sondheim's new ebook, .echo, takes you on a fascinating journey with Nikuko Meat-Girl into the language of avatars, transliterate lovemaking and virtual subjectivity. While interacting with Sondheim's ebook of mystical eroticism, the reader will lose themselves in a net.fiction charged with sex, obsession, codework and real bodies pushed to the limit. A provocative theory-world presented in the guise of experimental narrative, .echo takes the reader on a high-speed, yet zen-like trip through a hallucinatory landscape that one can imagine used to be the world. There's never been anything like this book as it confounds the relationship between America and Japan, prosthetics and aesthetics, visible words and invisible intelligences. Enter at your own risk! http://www.altx.com/ebooks/echo.html Sophia Sondheim, Alan; Sophia, ISBN 1 84254 583 3; published July 2004, reprinted November 2004 One of the author's rare texts of philosophy, an extended meditation on world and worlding, written with a unique style and structure. Perhaps the best guide to reality ever written! http://pages.britishlibrary.net/writersforum/WFstock.html writersforum@britishlibrary.net The Wayward Salt Books The Wayward is an exploration into virtual life and theory. It uses tools from codework to traditional genre; much of its work is the result of programming intended to create systems of circulating texts. Think of The Wayward as a poetics of the imaginary, stumbling over the grounds of the real - constantly questioning linguistic referents and 'meaning in general.' The work is a ground-breaking exploration of the roots and structures of online and offline life, in which language simultaneously explodes and implodes. Conversations among 'emanents' dominate inconceivable landscapes; sexualities are constructed and deconstructed. There's not another work like it. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710475.htm Being On Line, Net Subjectivity Edited by Alan Sondheim 1996-7. Note: This may or may not be available at this time. Being on Line is an historic exploration of the theory and practice of virtual identity as well as its effects. Unlike many recent books on the Internet, it focuses both on the promises of the technology and the actual content being developed by users of this form of exchange. Among the thirty-two authors are Angela Hunter, Ellen Zweig, and Nesta Stubbs; net feminist Doctress Neutopia; anthropologist Roger Bartra; and theorists Friedrich Kittler, Slavoj Zizek, Mark Poster and Gregory Ulmer. Artists include Mike Metz, Alice Aycock, Peter Halley. 208 pages, with 16 pages of color and 192 illustrated pages in black and white. In English and Korean. ISBN 1-882791-04-5 Paperback 7 x 91/2 in., 208 pages, 16 color. $15.00 U.S. http://www.thing.net/lusitania/Online/current.html Can probably be ordered from: D.A.P/ Distributed Art Publishers 155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, N.Y. 10013-1507 or call toll-free 1-800-338-BOOK The Case of the Real Potes and Poets Press, 1998 (2 chapbooks) Note: Most probably available. Volume One 44 pages ISBN 0-937013-90-9 1998 $7.00 New Chapbook Series #15 Volume Two 41 pages ISBN 0-937013-91-9 1998 $7.00 New Chapbook Series #16 2 Volume Set for $13 Potes & Poets publications are available from: Small Press Distribution 1341 Seventh St. Berkeley, CA 94710 www.spdbooks.org T'Other Little Tune (CD) Artist: ALAN SONDHEIM re-recording of vinyl lp Catalog #: ESPCD 1082 http://www.espdisk.com/store2.html 1968-9 Ritual-all-7-70 (CD) Artist: ALAN SONDHEIM re-recording of vinyl lp Catalog #: ESPCD 1048 http://www.espdisk.com/store2.html 1968-9 The following are available through Printed Matter: http://www.printedmatter.org/ Sampler DVD+ - for computer playback only Alan Sondheim Tremendous collection of current work! New York, NY: A. Sondheim. 2005 $25.00 Forlorn Matter Alan Sondheim Self-published text (a second version appeared in the anthology Unnatural Bodies). $8.00 Archive 3.7 CDrom Alan Sondheim Brooklyn, NY: Sondheim. 2001 Archive 3, 7, previously Sub/Con/Text, is a complete collection of the artist's work. It includes several web suites, over 5000 pages of text, 500 images, numerous videos and sound works, computer programs, and all sorts of additional materials. There are several book-length manuscripts, a number of articles, and the full Internet Text, described as a "continuous meditation on philosophy, language, and virtual subjectivity." The cdrom will open in Mac or PC; only the web suites might be a problem in Mac, although all materials are completely accessible through the directories. (Please note: This is somewhat superceded by Sampler, but is an excellent snapshot of work 1995-2001.) $14.00 New Observations. No. 120 (Winter 1999) Cultures of Cyberspace Alan Sondheim, editor New York, NY: New Observations Ltd.. 1999 Begun in the early Eighties, this artist-run periodical features a wide range of visual art, artists projects, essays, poetry, and fiction; each issue is guest-edited and devoted to a specific cultural theme. Editor Alan Sondheim collected texts about the Internet with images chosen as a counterpoint -- "they reflect spaces and bodies that are effaced, occluded, ghostlike." Contributors include: Laurie Cubbison, Alexanne Don, Jerry Everard, Amy Fletcher, Radhika Gajjala, Eve Andree Laramee, Nick Mamatas, Jon Marshall, Caitlin Martin, Michael W. Spirito, John Suler, Ryan Whyte, and others. Images by Robert Cheatham, Emily Cheng, Janieta Eyer, Nancy Haynes, Hokusai, Ichi Ikeda, Fanny Jacobson, Eve Andree Laramee, Kim McGlynn, Barbara Simcoe, David Smith, Tyler Stallings, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and Thomas Zummer, among others. $6.00 Damaged Life Denise de la Cerda, Alan Sondheim Dallas, TX, 1986 This exploration of space, lines, and existence is realized through electronics, tape recorders, keyboards, drum machines, mixers, miscellaneous acoustic instruments, and an accompanying booklet of black and white drawings of the artist recording these sounds. Cassette. Damaged life was a post-industrial group whose recordings were generally distributed on Spasm Cassettes, Austin. $7.00 Current active URLs: http://www.asondheim.org/ http://biblioteknett.no/alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/ http://www.as.wvu.edu/clcold/sondheim/files/ http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm Wiki essays at: http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext_tools/ ======================================================================== A few other titles: Disorders of the Real Station Hill, 1988. Note: This may not be available at this time. http://www.stationhill.org/sondheim.html Individuals: Post Movement Art in America (anthology) New York: Dutton Books, 1977. Not available: check abe The Structure of Reality (Self published through Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), 1977. Not available: check abe Strata NSCAD, 1972 Not available: check abe An,ode Burning Deck Press, 1968 Experimental work, check abe ========================================================================