Klee Flowers is a series of 140 images made of pictures of paintings by Paul Klee. I made the images in dbCinema, which is a graphic synthesizer and langu(im)age processor I’m writing in Adobe Director, which is a ‘multimedia authoring’ program sort of like Flash. In dbCinema, one creates ‘brushes’; each brush is assigned a [...]

Hi, I came across this interesting adaptation made with Google Wave (that I have fun with exploring it lately):  Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction.

This is not a literary work–forgive me–but I think you’ll like this 2007 piece. It’s a terrific interactive, generative visual and sonic art machine by Lia called I Said If. Click the black space. Adjust the controls at bottom. Or just let it do it’s very wonderful thing. Much more at liaworks.com In addition to being [...]

I’m organizing a small conference, The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice in Bergen, which will take place from November 8-10 at UiB and at Landmark Café. The gathering is focused on the increasing use of the network as a space and medium for collaborative interdisciplinary art practices including electronic [...]

Kathleen Fitzpatrick recently emailed me wondering if there were any MFA programs where creative writers could do a graduate degree focused on electronic literature. I could only think of Brown off the top of my head, where they accept one digital writer a year, then it occurred to me that Ed Falco is teaching at [...]

The New River is a journal of digital writing and art, originally created and edited by Edward Falco. The current managing editors are graduate students in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Virginia Tech. The Fall 2009 issue editors, Josette Torres and Amy Vance, are interested in receiving submissions of original and unpublished digital [...]

Call for Presentations Transliteracy Conference Tuesday 9 February 2010, 9:30 – 17:30 Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre, Leicester, UK In association with the Institute of Creative Technologies & the NLab Small Business Network,  De Montfort University www.transliteracy.com/conference2010.html Deadline for Abstracts:  1 December, 2009 Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range [...]

All, Mark Sample’s post and subsequent comment about teaching e-lit…reminded me that easy to use tools such a Google maps is a lovely way to introduce e-lit to beginning writers. With that in mind, I wanted to announce the theme of NetPoetic’s first contest.   Using Google maps, create a small work of Electronic Literature/Fiction/Poetry/Creative [...]

hi friends, A few of you I’m sure know about this already, but for those who don’t, Francisco J. Ricardo has put together a remarkable new book which will be published by Continuum in 2-3 weeks. Titled Literary Art in Digital Performance: Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism, the book–which viagra no prescription [...]

The Transliteracy Research Group is a research-focussed think-tank and creative laboratory, based at De Montfort University, UK, led by Sue Thomas and Kate Pullinger, who extend an invitation to join in developing this new field of academic research: Since transliteracy research began at DMU in 2005 under the umbrella of PART (Production & Research in [...]

A few of my English department colleagues and myself are preparing to propose a new Electronic Literature course, to replace a more vaguely named “Textual Media” class in the university course catalog. Here is an incredibly first draft version of the course description, building in part on language from the Electronic Literature Organization’s own description [...]

Please see the message below, from Regina Celia Pinto, about the 2-DVD edition of David Daniel’s Humans which she has just completed. For any who are unfamiliar with the names, David Daniels was an American shape-poet who died in May 2008, and Regina Celia Pinto is a poet and artist from Brazil who befriended him [...]

Here is some netpoetics. I’ve found some at last. Writing digital media. Language-driven digital poesis. Digital poetics even? “Something already ?” (Tom Phillips, A Humument, p. 99) “The purpose of this writing is to address” “an edge of chaos.” “Specifically, the point or points” “in sequences of words that” “delimit phrases” “found to be unique [...]

I’ve been on the e-mailing list for “Vook” for a while now – I can’t even remember how I got to hear about it in the first place – and I thought the e-mail below might be of interest. I’ve just purchased and taken a quick look at Embassy, one of the four inaugural Vook [...]

Not long ago I posted here about the recent publication of Jorge Luiz Antonio’s book Poesia Eletrônica in Brazil. Since then, Jorge sent me an article about his book that appeared in Jornal da Unicamp, a weekly tabloid of the University of Campinas. Campinas is just outside of Sao Paulo. I scanned the article and [...]