Here is a new stir fry text. This is by Amos Satterlee. Amos is taking a course called “Irony and Utopia: History of Computer Art” at a funky U. My work is not on the syllabus but Amos found my work on his own and made this stir fry on his own. The Stir Fry [...]

Yes a report from the cloudy murk that is the Flash and ActionScript development environment. Because, you see, the Flash and ActionScript development environment–let’s call it the Flash Development Platform– is so multiple in languages, development tools, delivery platforms, ‘enterprise solutions’, and little guy gotchas–and the Flash IDE in CS4 and, to a slightly lesser [...]

“Hans Reichel (1949) is a German improvisational guitarist, experimental luthier, inventor, and type designer.” So saith Wikipedia so you know the statement has passed many semi-clueless scrutinies to emerge supported, probably not without revision. But, yes, he is all that and more. The ‘more part’ includes creator-of-the-Flash-interactive-audio-visual-daxo.de, which we shall look at. Looking at daxo.de [...]

For those interested in audio in Flash–and audio generally–here are some interesting links concerning the work of Andre Michelle from Cologne; he seems to be the Flash audio guru. http://lab.andre-michelle.com is his ‘lab’. This has links to his code experiments, often in the form of audio toys. Michelle is also, I think, the lead developer [...]

When I look/listen/interact with programmed works, I look for interesting ‘code ideas’. I want to write about one I’ve just had. But first, here is my definition of  “interesting code idea”: the programming reveals the other side. By ‘the other side’, I mean the moment of art experience. And/or Ur intersects with the quotidian, the [...]

I decided to try to learn Flash. I’ve been using Director for most of my intermedia work since 1999, though I also do some stuff just in JavaScript. The last couple of versions of Director (11 and 11.5) have been terrible. Jig Sound doesn’t work in Director 11.5. They’ve screwed up the audio somehow. The [...]

This post is about writing for TV. My favourite show on TV is a series called Breaking Bad. The executive producer is Vince Gilligan. He wrote some of the X Files shows. I regard him as a TV artist writer. Sort of like Rod Serling was a TV artist writer. Serling did The Twilight Zone. [...]

There’s an online conference going on at Griffith U in Australia concerning the architects Arakawa and Gins. As part of that online conference, Jason (who teaches at Griffith U)  has co-curated, with Bill Lavender and Alan Prohm, an online show of  ‘creative responses’ to Arakawa and Gins. It’s at http://netpoetic.com/ag3art/gallery There are 28 works in [...]

imagine print without literature, just news and technical documentation, bills of lading, position papers, and so on. imagine the moving picture without art, just as surveillance and video-phone, etc. now imagine the net without net art. to many people, the latter is much easier to imagine than the former two distopias. we have had literature [...]

POET PIRATE NETBOT: Ruminations on the Undertaking of Excess Information by Kedrick James. An essay by the Vancouver poet, musician, scholar, and visual artist Kedrick James. With 13 of his intriguing visual collages (click these for bigger versions). POET PIRATE NETBOT is related to Kedrick’s book-length “Writing Post-Person: Poetics, Literacy and Sustainability in the Age [...]

I feel this is quite a good article on digital poetry: “Digital Duende: Reading the Rasp in E-Poetry” by Amanda G. Michaels. She explains Lorca’s use of the term duende, concerning art, in his lecture “Play and Theory of the Duende“.  And moves on to look at work by Ken Goldsmith, Craig Dworkin, Simon Biggs, [...]

Many of the contributors to and readers of netpoetic knew Millie Niss and her work. Millie passed away November 29, 2009 at the age of 36, as has been noted here previously. Martha Deed, Millie’s mother, has put together 111 photos of Millie from birth till shortly before her death. I’ve put those photos and [...]

I’ve been working on a new Javascript app to display images on the net. If you’ve seen any of the previous dbCinema slideshows, you may recall they didn’t have fade in/out of the images. I was finally motivated to make that sort of app. The motivation was not for the dbCinema images, but for some [...]

I’ve been working on a new Javascript engine for displaying graphics on the net. If you’ve seen any of the dbCinema slideshows, you may recall they didn’t have fade in/out. Well I was finally motivated to create this feature. Not so much for the dbCinema images as for something else which I’ll post when it’s [...]

A city of the mind–your mind. London Hypotrochoid does a Google image search of “London” and downloads 100 images larger than 800×600. And proceeds to paint the town. Or parts thereof. If you use a Mac, you need to use Firefox for London Hypotrochoid. Requires the Shockwave plugin from http://vispo.com/sw . Best viewed as big [...]