This is my Christmas present to you and my news of now. If you ask how it is for me, I can only answer with this. It is my pome for a new Vancouver of the mind. Soon I shall be o’ercome with Olympic music and stupefying acts of heroism in Vancouver. This is my [...]

I’ve been going to these iota salons for the past year and they’re really interesting. I’m probably posting this a little late but if you have anything ready to send, do so! And check out their website to see what they do, along with the website of the Center for Visual Music, also here in [...]

I have recently returned from DAC09.  While I am still processing a lot of the information that was pumped into my head, I did want to furnish a link to one of the high points of the conference:  The Literary Arts Extravaganza.  Organized by Jessica Pressman and Mark Marino, the extravaganza consisted of a live [...]

The University of Bergen department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies will have two PhD stipends available in 2010. The stipends are awarded competitively to two of the top candidates who apply. Candidates must have completed an MA degree, have an excellent educational and research record, and have a well-developed project description. Digital Culture is [...]

Here’s a new one from webyarns.com: “Archetypal Africa” takes a look at common objects in everyday life, and their symbolic resonance within myth and culture. The piece plays with fact and fiction as it leads the user toward an opportunity to define their own archetypal moment…. You can read the story at http://www.ArchetypalAfrica.com Also, Brainstrips [...]

“Mr Thornton walked rapidly, without awaiting Dixon’s slow movements. Margaret stood by the tea-table, resolved. The lines in her father’s face were soft and waving, with a frequent undulating kind of trembling, the dreamy lids a considerable distance from the eyes. Mr Thornton’s straight brows fell low, principally about the lips, one moment stretching from [...]

All, A interesting introductory article on Electronic Literature in the lovely E-Zine Flavorpill. Article author Sabrina Jaszi writes, “ Some of the best reads this season are being produced by electronic writers — techies devoted to the life of literature off the printed page. Their experimental fiction and poetry is colorful, cacophonous, animated and interactive — and [...]

Anne-Marie Boisvert has put together a very interesting issue on art and games in the CIAC’s Electronic Magazine from Montreal. It features writing about art games and links to the games discussed. There’s writing by Anne-Marie David Jhave Johnston, Edward Picot, Cindy Poremba, Xavier Malbreil, Rebecca Cannon, and myself. There’s writing by Poremba and Malbreil [...]

Nick Montfort and I are working with a designer to develop a coffee-table photo book version of Implementation, the sticker novel we published in 2004-2005. Originally, most of the photos submitted were of a resolution only suitable for the Web. We are currently looking for readers to help re-implement Implementation and to send in higher [...]

All, I’m pleased, no terribly pleased, no wonderfully pleased to announce that NetPoetic now has over 100 posts and well over two hundred comments.  So it seems the site is working, or at least beginning to work.  Although we can do much, much more. I’d like to encourage those out there, if they haven’t already, [...]

GUESS THE HALLUCINATION I’ve been developing the text nib in dbCinema, the graphic synthesizer/langu(im)age processor I’m writing. And produced the above series of 256 images (1100×900) with it. For five revelations per second, can you tell me the search term used to fetch the pictures from the Internet used in this series? I also wrote [...]

Streamflow Conditions
Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks

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24 hours of networked writing

an online exhibition and live writing event launching Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 @ Subito Press

http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org

~Beacons~
John Cayley (CA)
Roderick Coover (US)
Ian Hatcher (US)
Mez Breeze (AU)
Jose Carlos Silvestre (BR)
Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US)
Rui Torres (PT)

code poetry ~~ code proper ~~ ghosts in the network ~~ river expeditions ~~ edges of chaos ~~ immersive horizons ~~ eco-poetics

curated by Judd Morrissey

TIMESTAMP: ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT DECEMBER 5th @ 4:35pm UTC-7 [MST*]

[ *use this to translate into your timezone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ]