All, I’m pleased, no terribly pleased, no wonderfully pleased to announce that NetPoetic now has over 100 posts and well over two hundred comments.  So it seems the site is working, or at least beginning to work.  Although we can do much, much more. I’d like to encourage those out there, if they haven’t already, [...]

NetPoetic is co-curating, with the AG3 Conference,  an online exhibition of newly created artworks and poetry that specifically responds to the ideas and theories of Arakawa and Gins. The first deadline, Dec 1,  is a simple proposal stage, with all works due Feb 1, 2010.    Explore the Exhibition Call for Work page for all the [...]

All, Mark Sample’s post and subsequent comment about teaching e-lit…reminded me that easy to use tools such a Google maps is a lovely way to introduce e-lit to beginning writers. With that in mind, I wanted to announce the theme of NetPoetic’s first contest.   Using Google maps, create a small work of Electronic Literature/Fiction/Poetry/Creative [...]

All, Here is a lovely BETA version to my newest digital poetry game. The 3rd (or 4th) in the series.  I won’t be officially releasing it for a bit, so any thoughts good or otherwise are more than appreciated. Title:  Evidence of Everything Exploding URL:  http://www.secrettechnology.com/explode/evidence8.html cheers, Jason Nelson

NetPoetic Twitter. I’ve created a NetPoetic Twitter account, and will include a Twitter feed on the right.  I’m looking for ten people to add in as authors on that NetPoetic Twitter account (basically just giving you the UN and PW).  So send me, Jason Nelson, an email if you want to be in the Twitter [...]

A new digital poetry experiment.  Multi-level menus as poetry generator. I’ve been working,  for my soon to be finished PhD, on various digital poetry interfaces. A few factors I’m playing with, and would appreciate thoughts on: 1. the menu fade away timing (more or less?) 2. the mixing of various level depths  3. should I [...]

With so many grand and glorious posts, some of which are as good as any print journal articles, I’d added a new feature to netpoetic.com. If you want to PRINT a post, you can click on its title (or more) for the single post view, and on the top left corner is a lovely PRINT [...]

As we’ve already touched on here, there are a great many tools for creating lovely digital works. Daniel C. Howe  has created such a tool.  I plan to spend my Australian summer diving into this and making something, anything. I encourage others to play as well.  Jason From the site: -  RiTa† is an easy-to-use [...]

Although I use Flash mostly, and am forced to tolerate it’s controlling feel and face, there are codes wandering the world that do just as much, purely in the browser. http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/ the more than lovely site of DHTML Art and code wonders of Gerard Ferrandez is filled with experiments and indeed artworks created entirely in [...]

I’ll soon be announcing the first NetPoetic exhibition, a net-based, peer reviewed exhibition of interactive works of electronic literature/digital poetry. Before I make the wider announcement, I’m looking for ideas for a theme, or should we even have a theme, and  expressions of interest to be a judge/reviewer. A few preliminary details: * all works [...]

Chris Joseph, author, artist, coder, thinker, scholar and collaborator in all things digital literature and art, has a wonderful blog/site to explore. Many of the posts discuss interesting and truly novel ways of using various net technologies to create narratives and/or poetry, particularly useful for those teaching digital literature. I know many of you teach [...]

This morning I found the following in my inbox.  I’ve had a few hundred of these “what were you on” emails about my work, and particularly the games. (here and here) Although I find these hilarious (and somewhat annoying), they do bring up two interesting points. One, that drug use is typically connected with anything [...]

The E-lit research group Hermeneia has received the assignment of organizing the XXI Encontre d’Escriptors: La literatura digital, in XXXVIII Premis Octubre, 27-30 October, en València. I’m your typical Oklahoman and can’t read other languages….but this does look interesting and certainly adds to the fact that Laura Borras and company are moving the center of [...]

two new digital poetry experiments. wide and wildly branded Birds still warm from flying

With my work having gone viral (or at least mini-viral), I’ve had some strange mentions/posts/articles. I found this a few days ago. It’s from MTV in Russa, watch for the first few minutes. Does anyone know Russian? Jason