Grafik Dynamo (2005)

Grafik Dynamo is a net art work by Kate Armstrong & Michael Tippett that loads live images from the internet into a live action comic strip.

From the time of its launch in 2005 to the end of 2008, the work used a live feed from social networking site LiveJournal, and later used a feed from Flickr. The images are accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed.

Together, the images and narrative serve to create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in sync, and always moving and changing.

The work takes an experimental approach to open ended narrative, positing a hybrid between the flow of data animating the work and the formal parameter that comprises its structure.

Grafik Dynamo was originally commissioned in 2005 by Turbulence, with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work has since been shown widely.