[I posted this manifesto on ephemerality on my own blog, but since electronic literature can form part of the solution I'm looking for, I'm cross-posting my thoughts here.] We in the humanities are in love with the archive. My friends already know that I am obsessed with archiving otherwise ephemeral social media. I’ve got multiple [...]

In “ordinary life” I work as an administrator in the NHS, and in collaboration with my friends Julian Le Saux and David Hindmarsh I have recently started to put together a series of 10- minute puppet-videos chronicl buy amoxil online ing the misadventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner called Dr [...]

An algorithmic poem/painting by Brian Kim Stefans Music by Leo Ornstein Played by Marc Andre Hamellin Text derived from the New York Times Download (recommended): Mac | Windows Depending on your OS, please click the application “Suicide on an Airplane 1919″ to start. The piece should run for three and a half minutes. This piece [...]

This is a really beautiful–both to read and see–but simple project that I came across recently. Certainly an example of how people working in an “art” or “book” context — this was published by Information as Material in the UK — crosses over with the interests of electronic literature people. Playing with this PDF kind [...]

I’ve been working on a new Javascript engine for displaying graphics on the net. If you’ve seen any of the dbCinema slideshows, you may recall they didn’t have fade in/out. Well I was finally motivated to create this feature. Not so much for the dbCinema images as for something else which I’ll post when it’s [...]

This obviously has nothing to do with electronic writing or digital poetics, but I do see it as a contribution to “software studies,” and want to spread the word about my little online protest. Bank of America Online Banking: A Critical Evaluation provides a detailed, easy-to-read critical evaluation of Bank of America Online Banking. It [...]

I just got this from Simon Morris and am posting it here: Christine asked me to put this out to people in the creative industries…so here you are: Looking for anyone in the art and experimental literature field who uses any iPhone apps, has one made about them, has made one… anything art & app [...]

[English follows...] L’élève frappe à la porte du professeur.Elle la rejette.L’impolitesse entraîne l’impolitesse. Le procureur regarde l’agresseur.Elle le réconforte.L’un des deux voit son espoir brisé. Mon générateur d’histoires “The Two” est désormais en ligne avec une traduction française, “Les deux” , de Serge Bouchardon. La version anglaise était auparavant disponible en Python. C’était le second [...]

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of Millie Niss, the writer and new media artist, who died in November of last year. “One thing which came across from Millie’s correspondence, as well as from her own work and her occasional online commentaries, was her sense of perspective about new media art… [...]

the following is From Deena Larsen. “Please pass this out far and wide, as it is a wonderful chance to explain to NPR that yes, Virginia, there IS electronic literature. In this story at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529, writer Nicolas Carr laments “Over the last couple of years, I’ve really noticed if I sit down with a book, after [...]

A city of the mind–your mind. London Hypotrochoid does a Google image search of “London” and downloads 100 images larger than 800×600. And proceeds to paint the town. Or parts thereof. If you use a Mac, you need to use Firefox for London Hypotrochoid. Requires the Shockwave plugin from http://vispo.com/sw . Best viewed as big [...]

for Carl Solomon Brian Stefans What’s the name of the Ashbery essay in Reported Sightings in which he talks about the artist who left an art opening in tears, muttering the words “He stole my burnt dolls”? Could you type out the passage for me?           Willa Carroll and Sarah Sarai like this. Brian Stefans is [...]

Meaning-Making and Procedural Rhetoric in Casual, Art, and Indie Games (MLA 2011, Los Angeles) This special session at the Modern Language Association’s 2011 conference aims to explore the cultural meaning of critically dismissed casual games, art games, and indie games. The format will be a Pecha Kucha style roundtable, with each presentation limited to 20 [...]

Shortly before Christmas, we received some excellent news from the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) review panel. Our project “Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice” has been recommended for funding, pending final contract negotiations with the European Science Foundation to be completed in January 2010. Scott Rettberg, of [...]