“The Bank of England. I’ve never actually seen it before. Monolithic building, like a ziggurat. Staring blank walls, fortress-like. Two grey-haired bearded men in black overcoats, polished black shoes, pacing the pavement, side by side, both smoking cigars, deep in conversation. Incredible: like something out of the 1920s. Grey-haired men with cigars, controlling the economy.” [...]

The eighth in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy tries to prepare for his appraisal – with hilarious results! The first of four parts. To view the video on my site, go to http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/appraisalpart1small.mov ; or you can [...]

Hi, everyone– There is a new story at webyarns.com… “The Human Mystery” is a vision of extinction in an apocalyptic age ( it’s not as serious as it sounds). URL of story: http://webyarns.com/TheHumanMystery.html Also, in case you missed it, “HE SAID, SHE SAID,” released a few months ago, is available at http://webyarns.com/HESAIDSHESAID.html For other stories, [...]

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? [...]

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: [...]

Jason asked us netpoetic contributors to write a little something about our work-space – and quite honestly, I’m happy to do so because my work-space is something I put (sometimes too much) time and energy into – tidying, tweaking, moving furniture, changing the light-bulbs etc. until everything feels just right. It seems I have very [...]

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange and Furtherfield for February 2011 – a review of Andy Campbell’s four-part digital mystery-story, “Nightingale’s Playground”, which appeared online last year. “Campbell has always been at pains not to place his text in front of his images, or beneath them or to one side, like labels on tanks at the [...]

“They heard Dixon’s foot. A stern thought compressed her brows, and set her teeth. It was Dixon’s measured tread. They heard her walk.” Continuing the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – abridged on the principle of leaving out all the important bits. The sinister Dixon may or may not be dead. The [...]

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 [...]

[img]http://edwardpicot.com/drhairy/tiddles.jpg[/img] The seventh in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Underslider manages to persuade Mrs Hattersley to forgive Dr Hairy for his straight talking – with hilarious results! The third of three parts. To view it on my site, [...]

Just for fun – Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” re-written as a song about gravy. Pretty funky, albeit rather out of tune in places. Made with the help of my daughter Rachel, otherwise known (on YouTube) was HoolaHoopKid, who provides some slick dance moves via her toy orang-utan, Sweethart. You can view it on YouTube [...]

I Have been meaning to post for ages about a new collaboration, Instabilities 2, by Roger Dean and me, in Drunken Boat 12. The piece is at http://www.drunkenboat.com/db12/06des/smith/index.php and includes text processing in Jitter and Python. Instabilities 2 arose out of our Verbal Interactivity Project (VIP), dedicated to computerized text generation in Python. I talked [...]

The sixth in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy finds that his straight talking has all sorts of unexpected – but hilarious – results! The second of three parts. To view it on my site, go to http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/franktalking2.mov [...]

Loss of Grasp, my latest creation with Vincent Volckaert, is available online: http://lossofgrasp.com/ Loss of grasp is a digital fiction about the notions of grasp and control. Six scenes feature a character who is losing grasp. At the same time, this play on grasp and loss of grasp mirrors the reader’s experience of an interactive [...]