Re: late night ars cataloge

Jim Terral (jterral@netidea.com)
Tue, 27 May 1997 06:51:55 -0700

Just some proofreading. Let me put on my composition teacher's hat for
this. :-)

Monika Wunderer wrote:

> this is the final draft for the text of the ars electronica cataolog, I
> will send it tomorrow (27.5) 10.00 my time;
>=20
> just in case if you find any corrections, pls let me know
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> performing. Already in the 1920ies Italian Futurist Enrico Prampolini

1920s would be the usual way of saying this, not 1920ies. Same
throughout.

> Fringe Theater Movement, as stated by Pip Simmons in 1979. In trying to
> live up to the developments of modern theater art, new media like film,
> photography, video or television was soon incorporated into the product=
ions
> of alternative theater, and new creative processes were being searched.=
The

new media like film, photog, vid, and tv were incorporated...
[technically you are right here because you use "or" and in an "or"
list, the verb takes the number of the last item. But it's really a
plural impression, I think. And the singular plural confusion appens
again later on:

> The new found places are widely spread: former movie theaters and facto=
ry
> halls, and also the street is used as a performing place. These public

and also the street are...=20

> early as 1993 in the text-based environments IRCand later in the MOO (M=
ulti

Just space between IRC and and=20

> was enlarged to a world wide collaboration. Via the medium Internet peo=
ple

I would say, "Via the Internet medium..."

> Homer=92s Epos "The Odyssey". Odysseus travels to the island of Cyclop=
s,
> where he meets cruel Polyphem, the Island of Aeolus, lord of the winds,=
the
> Island of Aeaea, home of beautiful Circe,=20

semi-colon--or a new sentence.=20

he even arrives in Hades till he
> rests for some years on Ogyia, the Island of Calypso, before he returns=
to
> faithful Penelope in Ithaca.

I think this is Ogygia--another "g".

--=20
Jim Terral
South Slocan, BC