E-Card Catalogue 1.2
[Pixel Chart]

EC-30 - EC50


EC-30
This item has been temporarily blue-pencilled by the VFI. It is intended to publish this e-card later in a subsequent edition of the EC-Cat along with several other suspended items .


EC-31
Easter
15 March 1996, GIF File
An e-card to wish someone a happy Easter.


EC-32
This e-card is sub judice pending an investigation for misuse of electricity supplied by Norweb UK.


EC-33
1-33
22 March 1996, GIF File
A birthday e-card for 33 year olds.


EC-34
eb-card
22 March 1996. GIF File
Electronic business card (eb-card) of EC-Secretary. With special thanks to the EC-member known as fb:i!.


EC-35
Video
23 March 1996, n/a
An advertisement, never made, intended for Independent Television UK to promote the E-card Library.


EC-36
Tristram Shandy in Hypertext
18 March 1996, Hypertext file
Item withdrawn. An e-book is not the same as an e-card.


EC-37
A False Start
28 March 1996, GIF File
Contributer's statement: 'This e-card began life as a reconstructed film still from the second reel of A. J. Hitchock's The Birds. At one time it featured the word 'menace' along the bottom. Cancellation marks were soon added - another form of 'menace' - but against my intentions the card quickly came to resemble a frontispeice to Darwin's Origins of the Spieces or the eb-card of someone with a phobia of parrots. In short, the 'e-card film still' went disastrously wrong. Since the e-card manifesto - see EC-01 - allows e-cards to be boring I decided to lodge this 'False Start' before deleting the file from my computer. I hope to lodge an efs-card (that is, an electronic-film-still-card) in the near future.'


EC-38
Pier post
7 August 1997, GIF File
Produced by Steve - m002as00@email.mcmail.com - who comments, 'I see this e-card as representative of fear of the unknown/fear of self. The card shows the end of the earth, the fundamental physical/psychological boundary between the land and sea which can be seen as a metaphor for all boundaries. Perhaps the card can also be seen as a metaphor for the e-card itself: launched into the sea of the net with no certainty it will find land. Do we make the effort/commitment (build the pier into the sea?) or do we refuse to commit and remain self-referential, safe and land-locked?'


EC-39
Job 3
28 March 1996, Gif file
An e-card for engineers.


EC-40
This e-card has become an ex-directory item on medical advice due to it being made of radioactive electricity.


EC-41
n/a
n/a, n/a
This catalogue number was reserved on 28 March for fb:i!'s next e-card. On 3 April, fb:i! contacted the EC-Secretary to say he was unable to make use of the catalogue number since he was too busy preparing a children's atlas. If any member wishes to claim this catalogue number please contact the EC-Secretary.


EC-42
HazCard
30 March 1996, GIF File
An e-card for emergencies.


EC-43
User's Guide to the EC-Library
3 April 1996, Utility
Multi-mediaE-Card (MME-Card) for Apple Macs. Contains 25 e-cards in one. Stand-alone utility - decompress with Stuffit. This first ever MME-card provides an introduction to the EC-Library. Prepared by EC-Public Relations (EC-PR).Now only available by e-mail. Note - this file is approximately 300k compressed, 600k decompressed.


EC-44
Pier Cut
7 August 1997, GIF File
Another e-card from Steve - see EC-38 - who comments, 'Similar to the last one (same photo of the old Brighton Pier) but with a poem about the late William S Burroughs overlayed. Perhaps this will lead to other things. Chaos is also the progenitor of art. Cage knew this well. The old Brighton pier knows it as well (I hope they never restore it - it should be allowed to gracefully slip into the sea, as a metaphor rather than an amusement arcade). I hope it survives the GIF/e-mail process (I'm not sure it will). If it doesn't, let me know and I'll send the poem along separately.'


EC-45
Auto
8 August 1997, GIF File
This and EC-49 were produced by Steve - m002as00@email.mcmail.com - who comments,
These new cards are part of a project I've been toying with for some time. Ultimately the idea is to reproduce a series of text pieces on a very large scale (possibly as hoardings). As a poet and an artist (in that order at the moment) I don't see why words can't also be visual art. I don't think I'm alone in this - Kitaj, Phillips and (indeed) Greenaway have all worked with incorporating words and images. I, however, prefer to take this further and make the word the image. I'm particularly inspired in this by the work of the American artist, Edward Ruscha. If you're not familiar, he takes everyday phrases which are somehow redolent of "America" (eg "Honey I twisted through more damn traffic today") and reproduces them on paper and fabric. He mainly uses pastel, but has used such substances as blood and gunpowder.

My approach is slightly different; though the presentation is similar:
1. I use mechanical processes (laser printing, photography) to produce as "clean" a result as possible. I want the mind of the artist to be seen, rather than the hand. The words should come through as clearly as possible, without considerations of craft becoming involved. Colour, if used (as in the case of these e-cards) is simply to attract attention - as in advertising or graphics). In a gallery, where conditions are more controlled and people come specifically to see the works, I would use black and white.
2. My phrases are found objects which I come across during my day to day existance: advertising, items from ingredients lists, street signs, etc, which I feel have an independent existence. This is difficult to explain, but they seem to me to stand out, either in terms of their ambiguity of meaning, or simply poetically.

These works are then presented to the viewer to produce whatever effect they may in individual circumstances. I do not wish to dictate meaning, only to provoke.


EC-46
Standard Fallaby
7 August 1996, MME-Card
Multi-mediaE-Card (MME-Card) for Apple Macs. Stand-alone utility - decompress with Stuffit. Prepared by EC-Public Relations (EC-PR) this MME-Card provides an illustrated biography of Fallaby, the foremost E-Card artist. Now only available by e-mail. Note - this file is approximately 300k compressed, 600k decompressed.


EC-47
Pixel Vision E-Card
5 April 1996, GIF File
E-card from Pixel Vision, a division of the VFI, to advertise two MME-Cards, that is, Multi-Media E-Cards.


EC-48
For Emmanual Hermann
8 August 1997, GIF File
One of the founding fathers of E-Cards, this homage to Hermann was produced by Standard Fallaby, the subject of EC-46.


EC-49
Altered
8 August 1997, GIF File
See entry for EC-45 above.


EC-50
EC-Library Logo
9 August 1997, GIF File
E-card used by the EC-Library as logo.


E-Cat 1.3 is in preparation and, in addition to E-Cards, will contain a FAQ and a history of the E-Card. Email the EC-Librarian if you wish to be notified of publication date.