Hello Word! An evening of poetry, performance, and experimental text design from NYU/ITP’s Reading and Writing Electronic Text Friday, May 6th 2011 7pm 721 Broadway, New York, NY Ground floor (Common room) FREE Over the course of Spring semester, sixteen NYU students have engaged in intense electro-textual experiments: composing, mangling, generating and remixing electronic text [...]

The Club is a moving-image digital collaging of 57 images of selected North American politicians, business men, and psychopaths from the eighties till the present. There’s also a linked slideshow of some stills from the video. The politicians are conservatives who have blasted away both at home and abroad. Via deregulation, the shock doctrine, and [...]

I’ve been writing lately, here and on my own website, about what media studies offers us as a way to read a whole range of writing machines. And for some reason, it’s just a quick step from looking at the typewriter and typewriter poems to the ways in which poets have been hacking copy machines. [...]

Media studies is commonly associated with the study of digital media structures and related phenomena. But the more media theory I read (and lately I’ve been voraciously reading everything by Marshall McLuhan that’s outside of the well-worn Understanding Media) the more drawn I am to thinking through the defining effects of earlier analogue and digital [...]

The eighth in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy tries to prepare for his appraisal – with hilarious results! The first of four parts. To view the video on my site, go to http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/appraisalpart1small.mov ; or you can [...]

So much history is buried beneath our feet, and histories buried in other ways, by forgetfulness or disregard. If you live in a former mining area in Britain, that history is deep underground. Evidence of the coal mines have been erased from the landscape, swept away in less than a generation. Deeper still in the past there’s [...]

Hi, everyone– There is a new story at webyarns.com… “The Human Mystery” is a vision of extinction in an apocalyptic age ( it’s not as serious as it sounds). URL of story: http://webyarns.com/TheHumanMystery.html Also, in case you missed it, “HE SAID, SHE SAID,” released a few months ago, is available at http://webyarns.com/HESAIDSHESAID.html For other stories, [...]

Reposted from Free Space Comix III: Dear Melts, Digital Humanists, and others, So, in preparation for my presentation on Friday — for which I had planned on assembling an annotated bibliography of books that fell within my understanding of the field of “digital humanities” (and/or “digital literature”), I decided to assemble the books as Amazon [...]

i made video called “unicode”. it shows all displayable characters in the unicode range 0 – 65536 (49571 characters). one character per frame. i was starting with adobe after effects but in the end used a custom written program that just filed out png-images. i then had ffmpeg assemble them together to the 33 minutes [...]

Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 Launch at the Bergen Public Library Monday May 2, 2011 The Electronic Literature Research Group at the University of Bergen department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic studies welcomes you to attend two special events celebrating the launch of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2. The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 [...]