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STRING CYCLES is an on-going interactive project on the oral tradition. Using the ancient art form of string figures, popularly known as Cat's Cradles, this work is an allegory for the transmission of knowledge in the age of the Internet. It is a weave of traditional storytelling themes - from African folktales and the Homeric epics- to the visual poetics of Mallarme that are juxtaposed with 'superstring' theories in physics and the Buddhist story of Indra's Net, which tells of an endless series of threads connecting the universe. A new on-line application of STRING CYCLES for Internet2 is now in-progress following the initial realizations of this project as a videotape (pre-face/post-face) and an interactive CD-ROM installation for the Kwangju Bienniale, Korea. It is a metaphor for the Web and ultimtely as a GRID project for these emerging resources.
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