konsonant is my new app (for iOS and Mac) as well as a free mp3 release. check it out at my site Play with letters and sounds, build acoustic machines, control morphing clouds and experiment with the alphabet! Enjoy the sounds and shapes of letters by line drawing, physics simulations or acoustic networks in the [...]

“Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have [...]

Hi, everyone– After a long hiatus, here are two new digital stories from webyarns.com… “Pangram (The Quick Brown Fox)” plays with the concept of a pangram and provides a hypothetical back-story to the most widely-known example of the form. The second story, the “ABCs of UFOs,” is the purported website of a UFO investigation team. [...]

Rememori is a degenerative memory game and playable poem that grapples with the effects of dementia on an intimate circle of characters. Play-read or read-play, however you approach it and whoever you identify with, you’ll become entangled in a struggle for accurate recall, attention and the search for meaning. Inevitably, it’s a contrary game – [...]

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 [...]

Do not print this book (unprintability part 1) Sandy Baldwin What good is a writer if he can’t destroy literature? And us… what good are we if we don’t help as much as we can in that destruction? – Julio Cortazar Geoffrey Gatza, fearless director of BlazeVox, that “publisher of weird little books,” took the [...]

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 [...]

The last two events on the anticipatory agenda of the conference “From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era. Readings and Literacies” (Lausanne, 23-25 August 2011), mentioned in one of my previous posts, included “A Retrospective Look at the Encounter between Creative Writing and Digital Technologies in Romandie” as well as a series of conferences presented [...]

By Rob Wittig and Mark Marino [Cross-posted at Writer Response Theory] On a recent trip to the University of Bergen, we had the opportunity to meet, discuss, and compare notes on some of our mutual interests in Internet art, specifically in a highly performative, “real-time,” spontaneous form of writing that seemed to run through our [...]

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 [...]

i made video called “unicode”. it shows all displayable characters in the unicode range 0 – 65536 (49571 characters). one character per frame. i was starting with adobe after effects but in the end used a custom written program that just filed out png-images. i then had ffmpeg assemble them together to the 33 minutes [...]

When I speak The following was written as a manuscript for a speech, so it has to be spoken or heard or at least imagined as being spoken and heard. I wrote this text for the international poetry workshop fundamentals of poetry. What is happening when I speak? What do you hear when I speak? [...]

Just in time for VALENTINE’S DAY… Webyarns.com presents: “HE SAID, SHE SAID” is a lover’s conversation in text, image, and sound. The dialogue is random: he says one thing, she says another–the truth (and music) is someplace in between… URL of Story: http://www.webyarns.com/HESAIDSHESAID.html This may take a little time to load, so please be patient! [...]

The magazine Dear Navigator 1:2/3 includes a new poetry generator, Sea and Spar Between, by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland. Stephanie and I worked on this project for a year, it generates about 225 trillion stanzas, and we’re delighted to see it published in the company of great writing in the School of the Art [...]