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 [...]

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 [...]

[From Jeremy Hight, Curator:] “Happy to announce that the latest in the series “Line of Influence”(Binary Katwalk) looking at an important and influential artist, their influences and in who they see a kinship….now live with the brilliant writer/artist MEZ.”

“Geração sobre a fala” (“My Generation about Talking,” Nick Montfort) Tradução para o português, Cicero Inacio da Silva. “My Generation about Talking,” a text generator which I first presented at the Software Studies Workshop on May 21, 2008, is now available in Portuguese translation, thanks to Cicero Inacio da Silva. It was made for use [...]

Underbelly is my latest playable media fiction, created in Flash. It’s about a woman sculptor, carving on the site of a former colliery in the north of England. As she carves, she is disturbed by a medley of voices, along with her ticking biological clock, and the player/reader is plunged into an underworld of the [...]

A few of my English department colleagues and myself are preparing to propose a new Electronic Literature course, to replace a more vaguely named “Textual Media” class in the university course catalog. Here is an incredibly first draft version of the course description, building in part on language from the Electronic Literature Organization’s own description [...]

Like many writers, I have a love-hate relationship with my work. Some days, it’s smooth sailing with clear skies right up to the horizon. And other days, it’s a gale, with the compass off kilter and the water swamping over the gunwales. It’s on the bad days that I hate what I do, and wish [...]

Hi, I’m Mark Sample, and I’m not a digital poet, but I play one in the classroom. Unlike many of netpoetic’s contributors, I am less a writer and practitioner of digital literature than a student of it. And by student, I mean teacher. I’m thrilled to be a contributor to netpoetic.com in this capacity, as [...]

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 [...]

Adam Parrish recently taught a class at NYU in the ITP program: Digital Writing with Python. I was very interested to learn about it and to see documentation of the final reading/performance, with some links to students’ blog entries about their projects. Here at MIT, I teach a class called The Word Made Digital in [...]

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 [...]

Just a short info on interesting conference in Canada (February 18, 2010 – February 21, 2010): In(ter)ventions, Literary Practice At The Edge: A Gathering. In(ter)ventions will explore the edges of literature, where technology, innovation, and literary practice meet. There is also open call for papers (deadline Oct. 15, 2009).