[NetBehaviour] trAce, LOST project

Alan Sondheim sondheim at panix.com
Sun Sep 3 19:32:16 CEST 2017


Hi Tamar, really like this project - you should join the Electronic 
Literature Organization (ELO) at least on Facebook; both of these projects 
should be documented with them.

- Best, Alan

On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Tamar Schori - Doflash wrote:

> Hi Alan,I've seen the list of things lost and was moved by it's serenity. I
> liked the way items of great sorrow and trivial items meet and coexist on
> the same list.  Objects and ownership where disrupted back than and we
> seemed to notice it more. 
> I'd love you to visit another project that was created around that time. The
> project invite you to deconstruct and reconstruct 19th century nursery
> rhymes. It is a whimsical Karaoke text machine.
> http://tamar-schori.net/beadgee/be.html
> 
> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 3:57 PM Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
> 
>
>       The difference is fascinating. Not sure if it's clear from the
>       context,
>       but in LOST, the names of the owners are separated from the
>       names and
>       descriptions of the objects; they can't be reconnected. So the
>       objects are
>       untethered in the world (as they are in real life, rarely found
>       again,
>       especially when death intervenes); there's the wide world of the
>       objects
>       and the wide world of the previous owners (associates might be
>       better, one
>       never owned a parent for example, although one might own a
>       bowl),
>       fundamentally separated.
>
>       I love the poetics/poesis of your piece - thank you! - I didn't
>       know about
>       it.
>
>       The revised url works by the way - this one is cut-and-pasted
>       and balked
>       of course. Apologies again, Alan
>
>       On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Tamar Schori - Doflash wrote:
>
>       > I love the "lost" filter
>       > many years ago, in the ancient times before social software I
>       created this
>       > project:
>       > See http://tamar-schori.net/oodlala/ from 2002, a social
>       network for memory
>       > objects.
>       > some of the stories are really touching...
>       > take a look
>       >
>       > Tamar Schori
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       > Tamar Schori
>       > 0544-560136
>       >
>       > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Alan Sondheim
>       <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>       >
>       >       (From Sue Thomas on Facebook; she headed trAce at
>       >       Nottingham-Trent;
>       >       I was the 2nd virtual writer-in-residence. Think this
>       might be
>       >       of
>       >       interest here because of the networking involved, which
>       was also
>       >       a
>       >       metaphor for lost packets, lost archives,
>       disappearances,
>       >       ruptures,
>       >       etc. in online worlds.)
>       >
>       >
>       >       Sue Thomas
>       >       August 26 at 12:26pm
>       >
>       >       My favourite trAce project ever - Lost, by Alan Sondheim
>       . It no
>       >       longer
>       >       judders on the page as it was designed to do but the
>       entries are
>       >       as
>       >       haunting as ever. Users were invited to fill in the form
>       and
>       >       write about
>       >       things they have lost. Many entries very sad, some very
>       funny!
>       >       L*O*S*T
>       >
>       >     
>        http://web.archive.org//20/http://trace.ntu.ac.uk:80/lost/
>       >       (From Sue Thomas, and trAce) -
>       >       L*O*S*T
>       >       web.archive.org
>       >
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