I recently got a small commission to create a couple of self-portraits for a visual art show in Vancouver on self-portraiture. The curator saw an earlier dbCinema piece I did called The Club that incinemates the faces of my favorite North American politicians, business men, and psychopaths. He asked me to do related work with [...]

Here is a short video I put together about Aleph Null, an interactive, generative, online work I wrote in HTML 5 and JavaScript using the new <canvas> tag. The video was first shown at the Morgantown ELO confererence. It was my contribution to a panel involving Leo Flores, Giovanna Di Rossario, and Mark Marino, who [...]

I put together a twenty minute video talking about a fantastic piece of digital poetry by Joe Keenan from the late nineties called MOMENT. Check it out: http://vispo.com/keenan/4 . MOMENT, written in JavaScript for browsers, is a work of visual interactive code poetry. It’s one of the great unacknowledged works for the net. I used Camtasia 8 [...]

Chapter 2: Clement Greenberg, Modernism, The Theory of Computation and Computer Art by Jim Andrews Godel’s and Turing’s work as the culmination of Greenberg’s modernism of self-referentiality or consciousness of the art itself within the art itself. Chapter 1: Computer Art and the Theory of Computation by Jim Andrews I’m posting the chapters of a [...]

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 [...]

Some HTML 5 Works by Jim Andrews A review of four new HTML 5 works including an innovative, interactive music video by Montréal’s The Arcade Fire, 2011 winners of the Grammy for album of the year (The Suburbs). Recursion and Human Thought: Why the Piraha Don’t Have Numbers by Jim Andrews The Piraha are a [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Here are a couple of JavaScript modules that might be of use to some of you. They’re both reusable JavaScript classes. That is, you create objects. For instance, in the first one, which is an image preloader, you execute a line such as var p = new Preloader(fileNameArray) (that’s preloader, not freeloader) and ta da [...]

UPDATE FROM JASON: Jim,  Thanks for the concern. Yeah I did have a lovely, but thankfully brief battle with Shingles. A pretty amazing little virus that hides in your nerves and arrives to shudder and knock your fibers.  I am totally fine now and have been for a bit. Excuse my absence from NetPoetic….heaps of [...]

New online journal: Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=759 by Jim Andrews Experimental Poetics is a new online journal in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Doc at the Radar Station http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=722 by Gregory Whitehead Whitehead writes of the impact of Captain Beefheart on his own work. Nick Montfort & Stephanie Strickland / Sea and Spar Between http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=716 [...]

Wikileaks, Napster, and the Ayatollah Flanagan http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=655 by Jim Andrews An article describing 1) a parallel between Wikileaks and Napster 2) the value of Wikileaks 3) the revolting Canadian Ayatollah Flanagan and his fatwa against the founder of Wikileaks. P.o.E.M.M. = Poems for Excitable Mobile Media http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=648 by Jason Lewis P.o.E.M.M. is a research/creation project [...]

New on Netartery: DIGITAL POETRY ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING by Jim Andrews http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=543 Aaron McCollough is guest-editing an issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, and will create an issue on digital poetry. Deadline is April 15, 2011. See the post for details and contact info. NEWS FROM THE SAHRAWI REFUGEE CAMPS [...]

David Clarke has created a new work of net art called Sign After the X in collaboration with Marina Roy and Graham Meisner. Sign After the X is structurally similar to some of Clark's earlier works such as A is for Apple and 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein. The form of these works is one that [...]

Sufferrosa is an stop smoking “interactive movie” by Dawid Marcinkowski. Here's a video about it. It's quite extensive, as these things go. And it looks like some money was spent in the production of it. zp8497586rq