Performing at Inspace and my Underbelly Cabinet of Curios For my performance of Underbelly in Edinburgh, UK, on Halloween at Inspace no one can hear you scream I intend to wear shoes as red as wounds. Why? Because Underbelly, my work of playable media fiction, is an exploration of women’s bodies in relation to the [...]

New on Netartery: DIGITAL POETRY ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING by Jim Andrews http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=543 Aaron McCollough is guest-editing an issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, and will create an issue on digital poetry. Deadline is April 15, 2011. See the post for details and contact info. NEWS FROM THE SAHRAWI REFUGEE CAMPS [...]

http://lab404.com/glitch A recent essay applying Bakhtin’s theory of the utterance to the phenomenon of the electronic glitch. Presented recently at http://gli.tc/h in Chicago. The following William Burroughs quotation is obliquely relevant: [Language] is a component of the body like any other… Words are mircro-organisms, living dust that the electronic revolution only assembles and orders, right [...]

Greetings all! Over at Gnoetry Daily we’ve been exploring human-computer poetry generation using a variety of systems. These are computer tools that humans can use to write text poetry. Anyways I thought I’d put together an illustrated guide to some of the interactive poetry generators that are out there. Here’s a preview: Look below to [...]

Loss of Grasp, my latest creation with Vincent Volckaert, is available online: http://lossofgrasp.com/ Loss of grasp is a digital fiction about the notions of grasp and control. Six scenes feature a character who is losing grasp. At the same time, this play on grasp and loss of grasp mirrors the reader’s experience of an interactive [...]