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, [...]

TEN WAYS TO MAKE IT AS A DIGITAL WRITER (AND THEN FADE AWAY) Some of us wonder, why isn’t my work appearing in more museums, galleries, and festivals around the world? I’ve worked long and hard, I’ve produced the works, so where are the publications? Where are the accolades? Where are the reviews? For those [...]

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 [...]

I had the privilege, with collaborator Mark Jeffery, of participating in the exceedingly rich and diverse marathon-style event Noise!2010 at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in NYC on June 26. I am including here a link to Danny Snelson’s beautifully documented introduction to the poetry component that he curated. In his post on apasic-letters.com, Snelson conceptually situates [...]

“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 [...]

(1) Are there any prerequisites to being a digital writer? To be a digital writer, it’s probably best if you like to write, or at least not hate it.  Then, if you can pull as many muses into your corner as you can, that might help: history, music, dance, astronomy, and art…. Patience is a [...]

It’s been a while since Matthew Kirschenbaum’s book (Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, MIT Press, 2008) appeared and different responses have been generated meantime. I’ve finished reading it recently with the kind of feeling one has when (s)he finds a confirmation of something that up to that point presented itself only, more or [...]

Anne-Marie Boisvert has put together a very interesting issue on art and games in the CIAC’s Electronic Magazine from Montreal. It features writing about art games and links to the games discussed. There’s writing by Anne-Marie David Jhave Johnston, Edward Picot, Cindy Poremba, Xavier Malbreil, Rebecca Cannon, and myself. There’s writing by Poremba and Malbreil [...]

I wrote the below review about two months after doing a video interview with Dominic Lopes. So the review has the benefit of considerable exchange—and considerable exchange of email—with Dr. Lopes. I wish that, during the video interview, I had been able to raise the criticisms that I raise in the review. But I had not [...]

Brazil’s Jorge Luiz Antonio has published a book (which comes with a CD) about “electronic poetry” called Poesia Eletrônica (198 pages). My congratulations and thanks go out to him. Congratulations because I know he has been working on this for many years and I know some of the trials and tribulations he experienced through the [...]

The present-day diversity of the works which claim or can be   naturally  allotted a place under the heading of “electronic”  literature has  caused the critical and theoretical debates  accompanying the  development of this new field to move on to  a new level of  approach consisting in attempts to delineate the  extent of the  emerging literary [...]

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: a review of The Path, a “short horror game” by Tale of Tales (Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey), based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. “The two best-known versions of the tale are by Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers – but there are numerous [...]