Category : Brian Stefans

Suicide in an Airplane (1919)

January 29th, 2010 by bstefans | 1 comment

An algorithmic poem/painting by Brian Kim Stefans
Music by Leo Ornstein
Played by Marc Andre Hamellin
Text derived from the New York Times
Download (recommended):
Mac | Windows
Depending on your OS, please click the application “Suicide on an Airplane 1919″ to start. The piece should run for three and a half minutes.
This piece is best viewed on a monitor [...]

Sarah Jacobs, Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here

January 22nd, 2010 by bstefans | 1 comment

This is a really beautiful–both to read and see–but simple project that I came across recently. Certainly an example of how people working in an “art” or “book” context — this was published by Information as Material in the UK — crosses over with the interests of electronic literature people.
Playing with this PDF kind [...]

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January 10th, 2010 by bstefans | 2 comments

for Carl Solomon
Brian Stefans What’s the name of the Ashbery essay in Reported Sightings in which he talks about the artist who left an art opening in tears, muttering the words “He stole my burnt dolls”? Could you type out the passage for me?
          Willa Carroll and Sarah Sarai like this.
Brian Stefans is still recovering from [...]

Arras Reloaded

August 12th, 2009 by bstefans | 2 comments

I’ve recently redesigned Arras.net, the first redesign seven years. It’s no longer pretending to be a portal into the world of electronic literature — several other sites, such as the Electronic Literature Organization, do that much better — though I do hope to create a links page of some sort.
I’ve also redesigned the header of [...]

Raoul Vaneigem Cited on Biological Weapons in Recent Issue of International Peacekeeping

August 12th, 2009 by bstefans | 1 comment

One of my old pieces that collaged New York Times articles and the writings of Situationist Raoul Vaneigem has found its way into a journal called International Peacekeeping. The authors cite the article, authored by one “R. Vaneigem,” as describing “the views of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government on Iraqi possession of WMD’s.”
I can’t [...]

Some Links to Stuff

August 5th, 2009 by bstefans | 3 comments

I’m posting this as something of a response to the previous post by Jaka.
I’ve actually been scanning the internet, trying to find new (and old, forgotten) projects to include in a class I’m calling “Poetry in the Age of New Media.” I wish I had used “time” instead of “age” in the title, but I [...]

LetterBuilder Beta

July 23rd, 2009 by bstefans | 9 comments

I’ve been developing this little software application in Processing for creating letterforms and doodles for future versions of the “Scriptor” (here and here) series of digital projections. In fact, I’m moving the whole project from Actionscript to Processing, if for no other reason than that Processing was invented by one of my peers at UCLA, [...]