Diversive Paths

Diversive Paths is a collaborative international WWW art project, and you are invited to participate.

As we travel the alternate paths of visual expression, we are forced to make choices. We are continually faced with forks in the road, and we must decide which creative path we will take. As we travel, we realize that our creative output does not exist in isolation. Everything we do, as well as everything we create is influenced by those who traveled the paths before us.

The Diversive Paths project is based on the effects of creative influence, inspiration and collaborative vision. The project explores the concept of nonlinear image development and manipulation of existing images. There are 30 different groups of images with one "parent image" each which is used to start the chain of manipulation. Each starter image is associated with a structure map which illustrates the nonlinear path that the image can travel as it is being manipulated.

Participants from all over the world are invited to download images and manipulate them and send them back to us. As you travel through the Group pages, you will see small black boxes each of which are waiting to be filled with manipulated images. Download the medium sized image directly above the empty black boxes and creatively alter it, then send it back to us. The black boxes on the map pages show the images yet to be submitted. As you manipulate an image we only ask that you do not eliminate all traces of the previous image.

The large images are JPEG and are available for downloading. ONLY images with empty black boxes under them are available for manipulation. Images with filled boxes are for viewing only. Each Group has a map which will aid in the understanding of the structure of the path and show you the images waiting to be manipulated.

When returning the image to our FTP site, don't forget to put it in the directory with the same name as the Group where you downloaded the large image from.

We look forward to traveling the Diversive Paths with you.

If you have any questions please contact us.

You may Select a Path using a text listing of the Groups and Group Headings or go to:
 Diversive Path Visual Choices      How to contribute

Email comments or questions to: Bonnie Mitchell or Neil Herzinger - path@ziris.syr.edu
last updated (3/3/95)

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