[I've completed my Third Hand Plays run at the SFMoma Blog Open Space. I curated 11 new works of digital literature for the series and wrote 12 illustrated blog posts outlining my idea of the "comedies of separation." I've been asked to contribute a piece to the series of new e-lit but just haven't had [...]
“The elements of the dinner-parties which Mrs Lennox gave, were beauty, men, and pedantic conversation. They talked in a sensuous way outside, lashed themselves when they were alone, and squandered their capabilities in the drawing-room.” Concluding the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – abridged on the principle of leaving out all the [...]
I’ve just completed my first JavaScript work using the new HTML 5 canvas tag. It’s called Aleph Null. It’s a generative, interactive work of visual art. It launches on turbulence.org from NYC. Aleph Null is best viewed by the light of a full moon. Or near full moon. Same with the set of stills I [...]
First, a request. Part of the recent Australian National Poetry Week celebrations included an article about how us proles aren’t appreciating poetry enough. (you know, apart from slam poetry, and rap, and poetry shared on the internet among friends… we ought to be reading more REAL poetry, the kind that counts!) Anyway, part of that [...]
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP), a collaborative research project funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation, seeks submissions of electronic literature from European writers and practitioners for its upcoming anthology. We are looking for innovative literary works by European authors [...]