I’ve been listening to Scott Walker all summer. I compiled this semi-chronological streaming mix of his “music,” alternately interspersed with other artists either directly or indirectly influenced by him. Walker starts off as a crooner and winds up as a kind of concrete noise poet (or something) — thus running the gamut from Nick Drake to [...]

ELO President Joe Tabbi’s post in the On the Human Forum got me thinking about the differences between practitioners and scholars.  Not that his post discusssed those differences, but rather the follow up comments seemed to highlight at various junctions a somewhat sharp divide. So I’m curious about what others, those lovely readers and writers [...]

Ten is a round number, it has a nice ring to it, so I’m using it for a series of blog posts. Ten, of course. The first was Ten Misconceptions About Digital Literature, and this one is Ten Predictions. The last will probably be Ten Reasons Why I Should Not Have Done This, but until [...]

- – - – - – Playing this afternoon with one of Jason’s files. Rationale. ( JN added: Michael Maquire, playmate model and stare perfectionist, responded to my pictoral intervention here. )

I feel like an old virgin with a lot of experience. I had my first poetry book published in 1994 and I made my first (DIY) web page in 1996. And I hanged around in a Net Art Bar instead of Hypertext Bar back then in the early days (late 1990s). Later on I hated [...]

I’ve been developing this little software application in Processing for creating letterforms and doodles for future versions of the “Scriptor” (here and here) series of digital projections. In fact, I’m moving the whole project from Actionscript to Processing, if for no other reason than that Processing was invented by one of my peers at UCLA, [...]

I’ll soon be announcing the first NetPoetic exhibition, a net-based, peer reviewed exhibition of interactive works of electronic literature/digital poetry. Before I make the wider announcement, I’m looking for ideas for a theme, or should we even have a theme, and  expressions of interest to be a judge/reviewer. A few preliminary details: * all works [...]

‘m sure ‘spiritual materialism’ could mean any number of um things. that’s part of its poetical if not philosophical appeal, as poetry is the art of being profoundly vague. so one doesn’t like to ‘disambiguate’ too strongly. however, here’s a bit more about what i had in mind. others will have their own, different notions [...]

Dominic McIver Lopes has a book coming out in August called A Philosophy of Computer Art; info at http://www.apoca.mentalpaint.net. He teaches Philosophy in Vancouver. Nice to have a different sort of approach to these matters. A philosopher. And he talks about my piece Seattle Drift. In which the basic philosophy is ‘do me’. Which, come [...]

I have been thinking a bit about the question of “poetics” and what it means:  Does it refer to poetry specifically?  Does it refer theories of literature?  Or can it be loosened to denote theory, in general?  These distinctions have been in play for some time time, as definitions of poetry, literature and theory have [...]

Chris Joseph, author, artist, coder, thinker, scholar and collaborator in all things digital literature and art, has a wonderful blog/site to explore. Many of the posts discuss interesting and truly novel ways of using various net technologies to create narratives and/or poetry, particularly useful for those teaching digital literature. I know many of you teach [...]

This morning I found the following in my inbox.  I’ve had a few hundred of these “what were you on” emails about my work, and particularly the games. (here and here) Although I find these hilarious (and somewhat annoying), they do bring up two interesting points. One, that drug use is typically connected with anything [...]

i’ve been writing a graphic synthesizer/langu(im)age processor called dbCinema and, recently, dbCinemizing with some images of Olga, the Vancouver fashion model and book maker–as in artists’ books and regular books. i’ve read one of her books called Soros. the writing is by Kedrick James. Olga’s visuals are Russian Constructivistic. It’s a real page turner! Soros [...]

The new edition of Binary Katwalk features the interactive narrative work of Kate Pullinger and works by Caitlin Fisher, Reneé Turner and Christine Wilks. Binary Katwalk is an online exhibition space for experimental digital work, edited by Jeremy Hight. Each edition will feature artists from around the world and from different points in the spectrum [...]

The E-lit research group Hermeneia has received the assignment of organizing the XXI Encontre d’Escriptors: La literatura digital, in XXXVIII Premis Octubre, 27-30 October, en València. I’m your typical Oklahoman and can’t read other languages….but this does look interesting and certainly adds to the fact that Laura Borras and company are moving the center of [...]