Here is a short video I put together about Aleph Null, an interactive, generative, online work I wrote in HTML 5 and JavaScript using the new <canvas> tag. The video was first shown at the Morgantown ELO confererence. It was my contribution to a panel involving Leo Flores, Giovanna Di Rossario, and Mark Marino, who [...]

I put together a twenty minute video talking about a fantastic piece of digital poetry by Joe Keenan from the late nineties called MOMENT. Check it out: http://vispo.com/keenan/4 . MOMENT, written in JavaScript for browsers, is a work of visual interactive code poetry. It’s one of the great unacknowledged works for the net. I used Camtasia 8 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hi, everyone– It has not been long since the last one, but there's a new story at webyarns.com… “This Is Not A Poem” is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time…. The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com Also, in case you missed it, “My Nervous Breakdown,” released [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For this third in a series of ten posts on digital literature, I asked myself, as one would interrogate a terror suspect, Why do you write digital literature? At first, I choked (it was a kind of psychic water boarding), and then I came up with this…. (1) Because I like it. I like the [...]

Dominic McIver Lopes has a book coming out in August called A Philosophy of Computer Art; info at http://www.apoca.mentalpaint.net. He teaches Philosophy in Vancouver. Nice to have a different sort of approach to these matters. A philosopher. And he talks about my piece Seattle Drift. In which the basic philosophy is ‘do me’. Which, come [...]