I feel this is quite a good article on digital poetry: “Digital Duende: Reading the Rasp in E-Poetry” by Amanda G. Michaels. She explains Lorca’s use of the term duende, concerning art, in his lecture “Play and Theory of the Duende“.  And moves on to look at work by Ken Goldsmith, Craig Dworkin, Simon Biggs, [...]

Many of the contributors to and readers of netpoetic knew Millie Niss and her work. Millie passed away November 29, 2009 at the age of 36, as has been noted here previously.
Martha Deed, Millie’s mother, has put together 111 photos of Millie from birth till shortly before her death. I’ve put those photos and Martha’s [...]

I’ve been working on a new Javascript app to display images on the net. If you’ve seen any of the previous dbCinema slideshows, you may recall they didn’t have fade in/out of the images. I was finally motivated to make that sort of app. The motivation was not for the dbCinema images, but for some [...]

I’ve been working on a new Javascript engine for displaying graphics on the net. If you’ve seen any of the dbCinema slideshows, you may recall they didn’t have fade in/out. Well I was finally motivated to create this feature. Not so much for the dbCinema images as for something else which I’ll post when it’s [...]

A city of the mind–your mind. London Hypotrochoid does a Google image search of “London” and downloads 100 images larger than 800×600. And proceeds to paint the town. Or parts thereof.
If you use a Mac, you need to use Firefox for London Hypotrochoid. Requires the Shockwave plugin from http://vispo.com/sw . Best viewed as [...]

This is my Christmas present to you and my news of now. If you ask how it is for me, I can only answer with this. It is my pome for a new Vancouver of the mind. Soon I shall be o’ercome with Olympic music and stupefying acts of heroism in Vancouver. This is [...]

Anne-Marie Boisvert has put together a very interesting issue on art and games in the CIAC’s Electronic Magazine from Montreal. It features writing about art games and links to the games discussed.
There’s writing by Anne-Marie David Jhave Johnston, Edward Picot, Cindy Poremba, Xavier Malbreil, Rebecca Cannon, and myself.
There’s writing by Poremba and Malbreil about Jason’s [...]

GUESS THE HALLUCINATION
I’ve been developing the text nib in dbCinema, the graphic synthesizer/langu(im)age processor I’m writing. And produced the above series of 256 images (1100×900) with it.
For five revelations per second, can you tell me the search term used to fetch the pictures from the Internet used in this series?
I also wrote an essay on [...]

I wrote the below review about two months after doing a video interview with Dominic Lopes. So the review has the benefit of considerable exchange—and considerable exchange of email—with Dr. Lopes. I wish that, during the video interview, I had been able to raise the criticisms that I raise in the review. But I had not [...]

Klee Flowers is a series of 140 images made of pictures of paintings by Paul Klee.
I made the images in dbCinema, which is a graphic synthesizer and langu(im)age processor I’m writing in Adobe Director, which is a ‘multimedia authoring’ program sort of like Flash. In dbCinema, one creates ‘brushes’; each brush is assigned a concept–you [...]

This is not a literary work–forgive me–but I think you’ll like this 2007 piece. It’s a terrific interactive, generative visual and sonic art machine by Lia called I Said If. Click the black space. Adjust the controls at bottom. Or just let it do it’s very wonderful thing. Much more at liaworks.com
In addition to being beautiful [...]

Not long ago I posted here about the recent publication of Jorge Luiz Antonio’s book Poesia Eletrônica in Brazil. Since then, Jorge sent me an article about his book that appeared in Jornal da Unicamp, a weekly tabloid of the University of Campinas. Campinas is just outside of Sao Paulo.
I scanned the article and pieced [...]

I’ve been working on my ‘home page’ recently at vispo.com. This is something that anyone who has a site does and thinks about fairly regularly. At least once a year. Possibly more. I’d like to talk about some of the issues that arise to me in that process.
The ‘home page’ is or provides access to [...]

Brazil’s Jorge Luiz Antonio has published a book (which comes with a CD) about “electronic poetry” called Poesia Eletrônica (198 pages). My congratulations and thanks go out to him. Congratulations because I know he has been working on this for many years and I know some of the trials and tribulations he experienced through the [...]

Lines and Curves is an interactive online Flash project by Patrick Burgaud from France. It is a kind of writerly exploration in that, usually, the lines and curves involve the alphabet. It’s a lettristic excursion into Actionscript code to generate lines and curves.
There are 26 Flash pieces in Lines and Curves; one for each letter [...]