I’d like to start a small series about “reading programs” here. This is somehow a follow-up of the discussion at e-poetry after José Carlos Silvestre’s talk. The point being made was that source code is meant to be read by humans. I first had to agree but then after thinking a while about it came [...]

This past summer I had the luxury of indulging in every passing intellectual whim (learning Processing, playing with old Commodore 64s, learning about typography, reading every digital poem I came across, etc.) at the same time as I tried to assimilate these nearly absurdly diverse interests into a coherent book project. I thought I would [...]

Brian posted some links a while ago. Almost all of which I knew. But especially liked returning to Poundstone’s work and reading New Digital Emblems. Here is my annotated links page from my site vispo.com: http://vispo.com/misc/links.htm. This is one of the oldest pages on my site; I’ve been publishing the site since 1996. I keep [...]

The Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney, has a special focus on writing in digital media. We are currently seeking applications from suitably qualified prospective PhD and DCA students in this area. Projects are welcome which focus on any aspect of new media writing from the perspectives of theory or practice. Writing [...]

With so many grand and glorious posts, some of which are as good as any print journal articles, I’d added a new feature to netpoetic.com. If you want to PRINT a post, you can click on its title (or more) for the single post view, and on the top left corner is a lovely PRINT [...]

The present-day diversity of the works which claim or can be   naturally  allotted a place under the heading of “electronic”  literature has  caused the critical and theoretical debates  accompanying the  development of this new field to move on to  a new level of  approach consisting in attempts to delineate the  extent of the  emerging literary [...]

I thought readers of Netpoetic might be interested in this call for job applications. The Electronic Literature Organization is accepting nominations and applications for two Directory Editors. The positions are part of the NEH-funded “The Electronic Literature Directory: Collaborative Knowledge Management for the Literary Humanities.” The project uses open source content management and social networking [...]

For my first netpoetic project, I will address certain aspects of data-driven poetic work. Rather than attempt an exhaustive approach that considers the different ways in which electronic writers inhabit networks cannibalizing, channelling, and remixing data sources, I will take a localized approach, writing largely from my creative practice over the last few years and through some recent/current projects. I do this, on the one hand, because it is simply what I know at the moment and perhaps may stimulate ideas or conversation (for others and myself as I catalog and move forward). I also attempt this out of the feeling that practice-based dialogue is an under-engaged element in the discourse of e-lit (but one beginning to unfold here at netpoetic).

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: a review of The Path, a “short horror game” by Tale of Tales (Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey), based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. “The two best-known versions of the tale are by Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers – but there are numerous [...]

Here is the author’s description: “The Longest Poem in the World is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day. You can see more verses by clicking the three dots at the bottom (• • •) Made by Andrei Gheorghe.” It’s interesting [...]

Ethereal Phrases Selected Search Terms that led people to my web sites between 08/01/2009 – 08/16/2009 I am a web stats junkie. In addition to checking the number of visitors that come to my three URLs ( http://lab404.com , http://playdamage.org , http://deepyoung.org ), I also check referral sites (other sites that linked visitors to my [...]

As we’ve already touched on here, there are a great many tools for creating lovely digital works. Daniel C. Howe  has created such a tool.  I plan to spend my Australian summer diving into this and making something, anything. I encourage others to play as well.  Jason From the site: -  RiTa† is an easy-to-use [...]

Adam Parrish recently taught a class at NYU in the ITP program: Digital Writing with Python. I was very interested to learn about it and to see documentation of the final reading/performance, with some links to students’ blog entries about their projects. Here at MIT, I teach a class called The Word Made Digital in [...]

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Part 1 is here. The printed institution of intellectual property holds that works cannot be reproduced “without prior written permission” (as the legalese runs). The printed work at hand is always documentary evidence of the printer’s permission for that work, whereas any additional permission – the permission of the subject to write and read in [...]