Category : -NP-Announcements/News

The Inaugural Issue of VLAK Magazine

August 16th, 2010 by netwurker | 0

The inaugural issue of VLAK will be launched at the St Marks Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th St., New York, on the 27th of September, and at the Prague Microfestival Poetry Series in October. Contributors to VLAK 1.1 include Abigail Child, Holly Tavel, Marjorie Perloff, Alexander Jorgensen, Joshua Cohen, Eileen Myles, Stephanie Barber, John Wilkinson, [...]

And, Chapters 17-24

August 13th, 2010 by picot | 0

“It was too hot. She was struck by an unusual heaving. A sense of irritation gathered round the doors and windows. Margaret reached the small side-entrance. The porter’s answer to the bell. The keen sharp pressure of the knife. She went across and up. Click of machinery.” Continuing the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North [...]

new story at webyarns.com

July 21st, 2010 by eabigelow | 4 comments

Hi, everyone– It has not been long since the last one, but there’s a new story at webyarns.com… “This Is Not A Poem” is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time…. The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com Also, in case you missed it, “My Nervous Breakdown,” released [...]

E-Lit Postdoc at Blekinge Institute of Technology

July 6th, 2010 by heckman | 0

Postdoctoral researcher in the research project “Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice” (ELMCIP) to be placed at the School of Planning and Media Design, Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. Reference number: 426-0587-2010 Description The post is dedicated to working for 1 year in the [...]

Noise!2010 @ Ontological-Hysteric Theater: Poetics of Media Communication

June 28th, 2010 by Judd Morrissey | 1 comment

I had the privilege, with collaborator Mark Jeffery, of participating in the exceedingly rich and diverse marathon-style event Noise!2010 at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in NYC on June 26. I am including here a link to Danny Snelson’s beautifully documented introduction to the poetry component that he curated. In his post on apasic-letters.com, Snelson conceptually situates [...]

Netartery

June 15th, 2010 by Jim Andrews | 0

Inspired by Netpoetic, I recently started up a group blog called Netartery. Which looks a bit like an earlier project of mine called Webartery. There are only a few posts, so far, to Netartery. They’re by Gregory Whitehead, Andy Campbell, Jhave Johnston, and myself. Currently 13 people have agreed to post at least 6 times [...]

Vote for Joerg!

May 25th, 2010 by heliopod | 1 comment

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 [...]

new story at webyarns.com

May 19th, 2010 by eabigelow | 6 comments

“My Nervous Breakdown” is a new digital story from webyarns.com. Any similarities to people living or dead (including myself) is purely an accident and not worth mentioning…. http://www.webyarns.com/MyNervousBreakdown.html

Announcing: _feralC_ – A Socumentary

May 18th, 2010 by netwurker | 0

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

May 18th, 2010 by netwurker | 0

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 [...]

Report from the Cloud

May 8th, 2010 by Jim Andrews | 5 comments

Yes a report from the cloudy murk that is the Flash and ActionScript development environment. Because, you see, the Flash and ActionScript development environment–let’s call it the Flash Development Platform– is so multiple in languages, development tools, delivery platforms, ‘enterprise solutions’, and little guy gotchas–and the Flash IDE in CS4 and, to a slightly lesser [...]

Learning Flash

April 23rd, 2010 by Jim Andrews | 4 comments

I decided to try to learn Flash. I’ve been using Director for most of my intermedia work since 1999, though I also do some stuff just in JavaScript. The last couple of versions of Director (11 and 11.5) have been terrible. Jig Sound doesn’t work in Director 11.5. They’ve screwed up the audio somehow. The [...]

Fulbright, Postdoc opportunities at the University of Bergen

April 14th, 2010 by Scott Rettberg | 0

Two opportunities for scholars of electronic literature, a Fulbright and a Postdoc in electronic literature bibliography, are now available at the University of Bergen’s Digital Culture program (http://www.uib.no/rg/digitalculture). FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR/LECTURER IN DIGITAL CULTURE http://catalog.cies.org/viewAward.aspx?n=1543 For the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 years (or any single semester within that time frame), a Fulbright scholar position will be available [...]

PO-EX’70-80 – Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature

March 30th, 2010 by telepoesis | 1 comment

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 [...]

Binarykatwalk v.02c: Mez

March 26th, 2010 by netwurker | 0

[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.”