netpoetic.com

Brian posted some links a while ago. Almost all of which I knew. But especially liked returning to Poundstone’s work and reading New Digital Emblems.

Here is my annotated links page from my site vispo.com: http://vispo.com/misc/links.htm. This is one of the oldest pages on my site; I’ve been publishing the site since 1996. I keep the links current and working, however. And of course the page has gone through several re-designs.

The links are not strictly to literary endevours. Instead, they’re to interesting art endevours on the net–whether the art is net art or simply art on the net or some combination thereof. The nature of the art can be literary or a mixture of literary and visual, sonic, programmerly, etc.

This page of links used to put more stress on the literary. But over time, what interests me on the net has changed from necessarily having a strong literary focus to just being engaging on the net, tackling that challenge with intelligence and heart.

I worked for a couple of years, not long ago, doing multimedia programming for offline art projects. And that actually gave me a renewed appreciation for net art. Making memorable work for the small screen where you only have a mouse and keyboard takes some doing. And it has to work on millions of machines. Whereas in offline work, you can use all sorts of things other than the mouse and keyboard, you only have to make it work on dedicated machines, and you can set it up in a custom space. Also, work for the net is ‘sandboxed’, ie, it has limited access to the file system. So it’s quite the set of constraints.

But this page of links is to the ones who sing in their net/chains like the sea.

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