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I’m not really sure how or why I started fol­low­ing Artist An Xiao. No, not stalk­ing her on the streets – @heavybubble fol­lows her on twit­ter. I keep a close eye on twit­ter feeds almost all day long, lis­ten­ing for a sig­nal to come through the noise. An is about sig­nal not noise. She lis­tens. She is also mak­ing new work in a new medium. In this video An dis­cusses her con­cept for the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed.

Enjoy this video inter­view and join us on twitter!

Also, check out Maryann Devine’s (smArts & Culture) inter­view with An.

Heres and excerpt:

Do you call your 1stfans project poetry? Conceptual art? Does it matter?

As a poet, I couldn’t help but inject word­play into the project, espe­cially given the long tra­di­tion of word­play in telegrams. However, I’d cat­e­go­rize the project more along the lines of con­cep­tual art. It lacked the sophis­ti­cated, del­i­cate lan­guage that poetry requires; rather, it focused on how we use lan­guage in our daily Internet activ­i­ties and why we feel so com­pelled to use lan­guage to com­mu­ni­cate issues of apparently-little importance.

What was inter­est­ing, though, was how the project evolved. Although I expected a few @replies, I didn’t expect as many as I actu­ally received. They were so cre­ative, in fact, that I retweeted most of them, so their responses would become a part of the @1stfans feed and thus shared with other mem­bers. The project evolved, then, from a purely con­cep­tual piece into an inter­ac­tive, col­lab­o­ra­tive per­for­mance piece, all car­ried out over the Internet.

blog : that­waszen

twit­ter : @thatwaszen

web : www.anxiaostudio.com