All, UPDATE: Joerg has mentioned that this same work is also getting an honorary mention at Ars Electronica. Holy crap….time to move to a new format. Again congratulations to Joerg and vote for him at File Prix Our very own Joerg Pringer has been nominated for the File Prix in Brazil for his “ABCDE……” IPhone [...]

While on a recent arts residency in the curious city of Newcastle, I soaked in enough local lore and culture and hidden secrets to create a large scale digital poem. Sydney’s Siberia is an infinitely zooming, mosaic generating, entirely interactive artwork that explores Newcastle through 121 poetic image/tiles. As with most digital poems there is [...]

Greetings all! A heads-up: the 7th issue of Hyperrhiz, “New Media Subversions,” is now online, guest-edited by Davin Heckman and Hai Ren. Featuring essays from Davin Heckman and Hai Ren, Neil Hennessy, Brian M. Reed, Benjamin J Robertson, Andrew Klobucar, and Brett Phares With gallery works by: Neil Hennessy, Nicholas Knouf, Angela Ferraiolo and Mary Flanagan, Jason Nelson, and Brett Phares And a very fine review [...]

Simply thought I would share a recent interview with me in an art and design blog. Not sure if my thoughts illuminate or muddy the digital poetry waters, but I would be ever interested in your thoughts all the same.  Oh and please do leave a comment on their site, just to let them know [...]

the following is From Deena Larsen. “Please pass this out far and wide, as it is a wonderful chance to explain to NPR that yes, Virginia, there IS electronic literature. In this story at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529, writer Nicolas Carr laments “Over the last couple of years, I’ve really noticed if I sit down with a book, after [...]

All, A interesting introductory article on Electronic Literature in the lovely E-Zine Flavorpill. Article author Sabrina Jaszi writes, “ Some of the best reads this season are being produced by electronic writers — techies devoted to the life of literature off the printed page. Their experimental fiction and poetry is colorful, cacophonous, animated and interactive — and [...]

All, I’m pleased, no terribly pleased, no wonderfully pleased to announce that NetPoetic now has over 100 posts and well over two hundred comments.  So it seems the site is working, or at least beginning to work.  Although we can do much, much more. I’d like to encourage those out there, if they haven’t already, [...]

NetPoetic is co-curating, with the AG3 Conference,  an online exhibition of newly created artworks and poetry that specifically responds to the ideas and theories of Arakawa and Gins. The first deadline, Dec 1,  is a simple proposal stage, with all works due Feb 1, 2010.    Explore the Exhibition Call for Work page for all the [...]

All, Mark Sample’s post and subsequent comment about teaching e-lit…reminded me that easy to use tools such a Google maps is a lovely way to introduce e-lit to beginning writers. With that in mind, I wanted to announce the theme of NetPoetic’s first contest.   Using Google maps, create a small work of Electronic Literature/Fiction/Poetry/Creative [...]

All, Here is a lovely BETA version to my newest digital poetry game. The 3rd (or 4th) in the series.  I won’t be officially releasing it for a bit, so any thoughts good or otherwise are more than appreciated. Title:  Evidence of Everything Exploding URL:  http://www.secrettechnology.com/explode/evidence8.html cheers, Jason Nelson

NetPoetic Twitter. I’ve created a NetPoetic Twitter account, and will include a Twitter feed on the right.  I’m looking for ten people to add in as authors on that NetPoetic Twitter account (basically just giving you the UN and PW).  So send me, Jason Nelson, an email if you want to be in the Twitter [...]

A new digital poetry experiment.  Multi-level menus as poetry generator. I’ve been working,  for my soon to be finished PhD, on various digital poetry interfaces. A few factors I’m playing with, and would appreciate thoughts on: 1. the menu fade away timing (more or less?) 2. the mixing of various level depths  3. should I [...]

With so many grand and glorious posts, some of which are as good as any print journal articles, I’d added a new feature to netpoetic.com. If you want to PRINT a post, you can click on its title (or more) for the single post view, and on the top left corner is a lovely PRINT [...]

As we’ve already touched on here, there are a great many tools for creating lovely digital works. Daniel C. Howe  has created such a tool.  I plan to spend my Australian summer diving into this and making something, anything. I encourage others to play as well.  Jason From the site: -  RiTa† is an easy-to-use [...]

Although I use Flash mostly, and am forced to tolerate it’s controlling feel and face, there are codes wandering the world that do just as much, purely in the browser. http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/ the more than lovely site of DHTML Art and code wonders of Gerard Ferrandez is filled with experiments and indeed artworks created entirely in [...]