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 [...]

This is the hand-out I created for a talk I gave at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. I’d like to develop these ideas into a fuller paper that creates a basic set of critical principles by which to discuss the widely divergent forms of digital literature out there. I’m revising the entire [...]

I’ve been working on a project based on my courses on electronic literature. I’ve been teaching it for over five years now, and am getting a sense of the texts that I use. However, I always feel like I’m building the class from the ground up every time, so I thought it would be cool [...]

An algorithmic poem/painting by Brian Kim Stefans Music by Leo Ornstein Played by Marc Andre Hamellin Text derived from the New York Times Download (recommended): Mac | Windows Depending on your OS, please click the application “Suicide on an Airplane 1919″ to start. The piece should run for three and a half minutes. This piece [...]

This is a really beautiful–both to read and see–but simple project that I came across recently. Certainly an example of how people working in an “art” or “book” context — this was published by Information as Material in the UK — crosses over with the interests of electronic literature people. Playing with this PDF kind [...]

for Carl Solomon Brian Stefans What’s the name of the Ashbery essay in Reported Sightings in which he talks about the artist who left an art opening in tears, muttering the words “He stole my burnt dolls”? Could you type out the passage for me?           Willa Carroll and Sarah Sarai like this. Brian Stefans is [...]

I’ve recently redesigned Arras.net, the first redesign seven years. It’s no longer pretending to be a portal into the world of electronic literature — several other sites, such as the Electronic Literature Organization, do that much better — though I do hope to create a links page of some sort. I’ve also redesigned the header [...]

One of my old pieces that collaged New York Times articles and the writings of Situationist Raoul Vaneigem has found its way into a journal called International Peacekeeping. The authors cite the article, authored by one “R. Vaneigem,” as describing “the views of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government on Iraqi possession of WMD’s.” I can’t [...]

I’m posting this as something of a response to the previous post by Jaka. I’ve actually been scanning the internet, trying to find new (and old, forgotten) projects to include in a class I’m calling “Poetry in the Age of New Media.” I wish I had used “time” instead of “age” in the title, but [...]

I’ve been developing this little software application in Processing for creating letterforms and doodles for future versions of the “Scriptor” (here and here) series of digital projections. In fact, I’m moving the whole project from Actionscript to Processing, if for no other reason than that Processing was invented by one of my peers at UCLA, [...]