Archive for May, 2011

Friday morning at the Surgery

May 27th, 2011 by picot | 3 comments

A short Flash “poem” about surgery work. The accompanying music was developed using Andre Michelle’s lovely Tonematrix ( http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix ). http://edwardpicot.com/fridaymorning – Edward Picot http://edwardpicot.com – personal website http://hyperex.co.uk – The Hyperliterature Exchange

Short speech delivered at BIPVAL

May 25th, 2011 by eabigelow | 2 comments

Recently, I was fortunate enough to win the 2011 BIPVAL international Prix de Poésie Média. I was invited to Paris to receive the prize and, seeing an opportunity to express my thanks and at the same time give a plug for electronic literature, I prepared a few short words. For those who might be interested, [...]

The Tower of Babel, by John Miers

May 16th, 2011 by picot | 0

I just came across this in another forum: a comic-book (but very advanced) interpretation of the Tower of Babel by an artist called John Miers. It’s really worth a look. His website is at http://www.johnmiers.com/ and the Tower of Babel project is in the Comics section. An interview about the project, with another artist called [...]

London Churches, Part 4

May 16th, 2011 by picot | 0

“The Bank of England. I’ve never actually seen it before. Monolithic building, like a ziggurat. Staring blank walls, fortress-like. Two grey-haired bearded men in black overcoats, polished black shoes, pacing the pavement, side by side, both smoking cigars, deep in conversation. Incredible: like something out of the 1920s. Grey-haired men with cigars, controlling the economy.” [...]

The Archeological Media Lab as Locavore Thinking Device

May 12th, 2011 by lori.emerson | 0

Below is the paper I’ll be presenting at the E-Poetry Festival next week in Buffalo, NY. I may re-post slight edits on my own website between now and then, but only slight. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you there! * Between the much-needed efforts of the Electronic Literature Organization‘s Electronic Literature Directory (ELD) [...]

Netprov – Networked Improv Literature

May 12th, 2011 by marino | 0

By Rob Wittig and Mark Marino [Cross-posted at Writer Response Theory] On a recent trip to the University of Bergen, we had the opportunity to meet, discuss, and compare notes on some of our mutual interests in Internet art, specifically in a highly performative, “real-time,” spontaneous form of writing that seemed to run through our [...]

New on Netartery

May 7th, 2011 by Jim Andrews | 0

DREAMING METHODS–OPEN SOURCE PROJECT by Andy Campbell Dreaming Methods has three new projects available to experience – each one created without the use of Flash or any other browser plugin. MAINLY THE MYSTERIES by Gregory Whitehead One of the great audio artists of our time was asked to write about what he still believes in, [...]

my typewriter

May 3rd, 2011 by Joerg Piringer | 2 comments

a couple of days ago there was the news that the last factory that produced typewriters closed (which is not true at all in fact). there are still hundreds of thousands used ones around. you can get them at flea markets for 1-5 euros. i’d really recommend buying one or a couple (in case one [...]