Announcing: _feralC_ – A Socumentary _feralC_ is a socumentary* which is textually driven by the interactions of five Twitter chars [primary characters or entities] and their Pupa Mistress (PM). The PM initially functions as a Twitter based information hub for the interactions between the chars and other contributing entities (such as yourself). These additional contributing [...]

common practice/language Texts by mez breeze 3 June, 5pm-8pm Reading Room in Arnolfini and online at http://automatist.net/deptofreading/wiki/pmwiki.php/CommonPractice contact common_practice on Skype to join the session (next sessions: 24 June, 9 and 30 September) Italo Calvino said ‘the storyteller explored the possibilities implied in his own language by combining and changing the permutations of the figures [...]

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 [...]

Create and control tiny sound-creatures in the shape of letters that react to gravity or each other and generate rhythms and soundscapes. http://joerg.piringer.net/abcdefg abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is a sound toy, a performance tool and an art work in its own right. You can play with the letter-creatures and watch and listen how they interact with each other [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is my Christmas present to you and my news of now. If you ask how it is for me, I can only answer with this. It is my pome for a new Vancouver of the mind. Soon I shall be o’ercome with Olympic music and stupefying acts of heroism in Vancouver. This is my [...]

Announcing: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ A Google Wave(let) Transformation by Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez, 2009 Title: _:terror(aw)ed patches:_ Original URL: http://non-playercharacter.com/?p=43 Description: Shane Hinton + Netwurker Mez create a new method of collaborative “fiction” through _live concurrent editing_ in Google Wave. This process results in expressive output[s] termed “Transformations”: “Google Wave uses an algorithmic variation of [...]

Lines and Curves is an interactive online Flash project by Patrick Burgaud from France. It is a kind of writerly exploration in that, usually, the lines and curves involve the alphabet. It’s a lettristic excursion into Actionscript code to generate lines and curves. There are 26 Flash pieces in Lines and Curves; one for each [...]

For my first netpoetic project, I will address certain aspects of data-driven poetic work. Rather than attempt an exhaustive approach that considers the different ways in which electronic writers inhabit networks cannibalizing, channelling, and remixing data sources, I will take a localized approach, writing largely from my creative practice over the last few years and through some recent/current projects. I do this, on the one hand, because it is simply what I know at the moment and perhaps may stimulate ideas or conversation (for others and myself as I catalog and move forward). I also attempt this out of the feeling that practice-based dialogue is an under-engaged element in the discourse of e-lit (but one beginning to unfold here at netpoetic).

Here is the author’s description: “The Longest Poem in the World is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day. You can see more verses by clicking the three dots at the bottom (• • •) Made by Andrei Gheorghe.” It’s interesting [...]

Ethereal Phrases Selected Search Terms that led people to my web sites between 08/01/2009 – 08/16/2009 I am a web stats junkie. In addition to checking the number of visitors that come to my three URLs ( http://lab404.com , http://playdamage.org , http://deepyoung.org ), I also check referral sites (other sites that linked visitors to my [...]

David Jhave Johnston is a poet-programmer who has produced a large body of intermedial Flash-based net art for many years at glia.ca. His most recent project is titled Sound Seeker. He says in the “About” section that Sound Seeker is “an online real-time beat-synchronized poem animator. Sound drives the rhythm of the words: their speed and style [...]

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 [...]