Hi folks!!! eabigelow’s recent post “TEN WAYS TO MAKE IT AS A DIGITAL WRITER (AND THEN FADE AWAY)” was pretty interesting to me because while it seemed like it might be useful to a lot of folks, it didn’t really reflect what I learned generating poetry on Gnoetry Daily… After a bit of thought I [...]

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? [...]

Some time ago I wrote a post here on netpoetic about “Meaning as Making: From Dirty Concrete to Critical Code.” Since then, I have been working on turning this post-turned-conference-paper into an essay for a special issue of the Canadian journal Open Letter on Steve McCaffery. This piece now has the title “Marking as Meaning: [...]

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 [...]

This is the hand-out I created for a talk I gave at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. I’d like to develop these ideas into a fuller paper that creates a basic set of critical principles by which to discuss the widely divergent forms of digital literature out there. I’m revising the entire [...]

I’ve been working on a project based on my courses on electronic literature. I’ve been teaching it for over five years now, and am getting a sense of the texts that I use. However, I always feel like I’m building the class from the ground up every time, so I thought it would be cool [...]

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 [...]

http://lab404.com/glitch A recent essay applying Bakhtin’s theory of the utterance to the phenomenon of the electronic glitch. Presented recently at http://gli.tc/h in Chicago. The following William Burroughs quotation is obliquely relevant: [Language] is a component of the body like any other… Words are mircro-organisms, living dust that the electronic revolution only assembles and orders, right [...]

I began my previous post by quoting the conclusion of a recent article which stated that ‘Electronic poetry in Romanian is still to be invented’. It seems to me that the careful formulation of this sentence implies a very subtle yet significant distinction between ‘E-poetry in Romanian’ and ‘Romanian e-poetry’, which can be easily applied [...]

["Haunts: Place, Play, and Trauma" originally appeared at samplereality.com. Because it deals with new media and storytelling, it seems appropriate to share with the netpoetic community.] Foursquare and its brethren (Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt, and so on) are the latest social media darlings, but honestly, are they really all that useful? Sharing your location with your [...]

Hi everyone!  Over at Gnoetry Daily we’ve been doing n-gram computer-assisted poetry generation for a while, and I decided to write up a little tutorial introducing n-grams and how they can be used for poetry generation.  It’s posted below; I’m trying to make it easy to understand, so let me know if there’s anything that’s [...]

Later this month I’ll be presenting a paper on “Making as Meaning: from Dirty Concrete to Critical Code” – I will post the entire text of the paper once I’ve presented it. In the meantime I thought I would give readers a sneak peek. In short, something I’ve been exploring is the way in which [...]

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 [...]

It is with great pleasure that I now announce the beginning of the project “PO.EX’70-80 – Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature”, financed by the Science and Technology Foundation of the Portuguese Government (MCTES), with European Funds (Ref: PTDC/CLE-LLI/098270/2008). This project will have the duration of 36 months, and will have as Host Institution the [...]

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 [...]