The Future of NetPoetic
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, to contribute. In particular, send across comments and add posts about your most recent/future/past projects.
I’m also interested in your ideas for how we can improve the site. I’ve been lax in the twitter world and with some correspondance (been a bit tropically sick sadly), so those are a few areas that will be swimming soon. In addition, we are in dire need of more venues. A wonderful recent example is Kenneth Sherwood’s Reading Rebooted Exhibition. Or Judd Morrissey‘s lovely Streamflow Conditions in conjunction with the University of Colorado. If we all worked with our local institutions or connections just once every two years, imagine the exposure. And I would hope the new venues would spur new creative work (always an issue). I, for example, have a backlog of creations yearning for homes. Perhaps one idea would be to contact print journals and coax them into featuring works on their websites. Or write something for a newspaper or magazine about Electronic Literature works. And of course spread the word about NetPoetic.
So……please do leave a comment in this post and tell us what you think of the site. Is this something worth continuing?
cheers, Jason Nelson
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9 Responses to “The Future of NetPoetic”.
dear netpoetic-s,
i am following your activities since the beginning – well let’s say during the past 99 entries – and i am happy to have this great and profound resource in my feedreader – please continue your collective writing as it is!
[one topic which could be elaborated a bit more is the way how to exhibit electronic literature, digital poetry, collective networked writing in the real space... even if i know that this is quite 'special interest']
best regards, fratha
Netpoetic is essential structure.
Carry on my wayward son.
Yes, carry on. Despite my own delinquency (I will address my netpoetic writing project in January), this is a great resource. One of the things I appreciate most is hearing from other practitioners, which is quite unique. It seems that the site works well as an organically growing hub/feed, but without (as yet) the collective structure/infrastructure you would like.
One idea I had a while back was for a netpoetic laboratory. Slightly different from a publication or gallery, this would make use of the creativity of contributing writers to propose experiments or constraints to stimulate new work that would then be displayed here. This could extend the emphasis on practice and actively cultivate new directions in digital writing.
Anyway, yes, more ‘initiatives’ could be interesting, but the site is also great as-is.
Great job. I am generally a lurker here, but will do my part. Eventually.
It’s great to see sites like this coming out and thriving.
netpoetic is the best resource about e-lit and connected fields ever…
and i agree with fratha. as i know that he has some specific knowledge about this topic, how about giving him an netpoetic-account and have him post here?
best
joerg
Yes Jason, a terribly pleasing beauty was born when you & Davin launched netpoetic. It is a great resource, as window on current practice, practitioners, meeting/info/reference point and maybe a motivator to individuals like myself who often toil /create in relative geographic, imaginative and academic isolation.
Yes Jason it is certainly worth continuing, please do..
I’m making a blog slowly between other projects. It will be related to netpoetic in the way my work is related to electronic literature and digital poetry etc. Also, I will invite some people to post to it just as you have with netpoetic.
But I’m humming and hawwing about the focus of the blog. Digital art is too broad. Computer art is too narrow. Electronic literature is too narrow. Hmm. Perhaps will approach it nominally: rather than defining an essential focus, will invite people whose work interests me and see what happens.
In any case, it would be nice to be able to (selectively) auto-publish posts from netpoetic on this imaginary blog and for you to be able to (selectively) auto-publish posts from Imaginary.
Not sure if that interests you, Jason.
In any case, Netpoetic is a going concern and I applaud you in what you’ve created. It has filled a big void. It has a future if you want it to.
Lately I’ve been labouring in lonely loony elit isolation trying to polish off a project sending me loopy…
keep going, keep going…!
I concur with all the above and I particularly like Judd’s idea of a netpoetic laboratory. I also find it especially valuable to hear from other practitioners. It would be good if there were more women involved too.
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