netpoetic.com

Inspired by Netpoetic, I recently started up a group blog called Netartery. Which looks a bit like an earlier project of mine called Webartery.

There are only a few posts, so far, to Netartery. They’re by Gregory Whitehead, Andy Campbell, Jhave Johnston, and myself. Currently 13 people have agreed to post at least 6 times per year. That number will probably increase and decrease and, hopefully, balance out to something steady in terms of semi-regular posts.

Netartery is like netpoetic in that the reader and writership will consist probably primarily of writers. But the focus is not so much on ‘electronic writing’ as a more general ‘writers gone wrong’ approach. Gregory Whitehead, for instance, is an audio writer. I’ve been following his work since the 80′s and regard him as the best literary audio artist I’ve encountered.

Jhave Johnston and Andy Campbell are also involved. Jhave Johnston is a Montréal-based poet-programmer who is producing some of  the strongest contemporary poetic net art. And Andy Campbell has been producing digital fiction since the early nineties and continues with his truly outstanding project dreamingmethods.com . The other people involved (who haven’t posted yet) are Chris Joseph, Christina Ljungberg, Christine Wilks, Jason Quackenbush, Kedrick James, Leonardo Flores, Marcus Bastos, Michael Harold, and Regina Célia Pinto.

Netartery is primarily a place to post about one’s new work and new work of interest to the group and its readership, and about related issues. New work, interesting ideas, events, and so on. The people posting to Netartery are media writers and scholars of media writing. They are ‘writers gone wrong’ in this sense. They might write books, but they are also involved in other forms of artistic writing. These can be vispoetic or performative, programmerly, audio-oriented, and what not.

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