Panel Junction

by Andy Deck
http://artcontext.org/act/05/panel/

Panel Junction blends the graphic novel with forms of shared, online authorship. It merges spontaneous drawing with scripting and direction from online visitors. Participants from around the world have contributed suggestions, graphics, narrative ideas, layouts, and sketches. Panel Junction culminated in a printable (PDF) twelve page graphic novel.

Bio

Andy Deck is an American artist specializing in Internet art. His work addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaboration, interactivity, software, and independent media. Using the site ARTCONTEXT.NET, Deck combines code, text, and images to demonstrate new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices. His aesthetic program delves into the myth of technological progress, issues surrounding collective authorship, and the cultural context of political passivity. Visitors to Artcontext are engaged in online production processes that suggest both the potential and limits of systematized creativity. His associations include Personal Cinema, a 2005 European Media Art Festival award winner; Turbulence (turbulence.org); and Furtherfield (furtherfield.org), which mounted a retrospective of his online work in 2004. He is a co-founder of the environmentalist arts organization Transnational Temps, which is currently developing Terranode (terranode.org), an earth art project for the new century.