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, [...]

“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 [...]

#feralC’s Series 1|Episode 1 Session 3 Transcript is now live here.

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 [...]

["Haunts: Place, Play, and Trauma" originally appeared at samplereality.com. Because it deals with new media and storytelling, it seems appropriate to share with the netpoetic community.] Foursquare and its brethren (Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt, and so on) are the latest social media darlings, but honestly, are they really all that useful? Sharing your location with your [...]

http://www.faulttacticalnetwork.org/rcai It was only after I began working with Robert Coover in the Brown Literary Arts program in 1998 that I remembered my father commenting years earlier on Coover’s book Pinocchio in Venice; as a foremost Scholar of the Pinocchio story and its appearances throughout history in literature and media, he was impressed with Coover’s [...]

[new clues/images up at #feralC] *prepare 2 lunge_tumble after @Miss_Stressa in2 sepia+lead_grey terraced bunnyholes* http://netwurker.net/

[LET THEM EAT CACHE] [currently on #feralC]: @QReada does indeed go “feral” + starts spouting cryptic comms: “[THE WROTE WRITES ROTTINGS ON THE WALL]” + “[LARGE CHARCOAL BLACK DOG WITH SNOW WHITE SAND OOZING EYES]” + “[LET THEM EAT CACHE]” + “[SMALL SUEDE TAN CAT WITH SANDPAPER CLAWS]” etc… @pupa_mistress warns @QReada 2 stop but [...]

[...over in #feralC Twitterland theres lots-a-foamin': @Miss_Stressa is incommunicado. @HUD_B is trying to help @QReada + has worked out how to decipher his/her QR code(s). @shadowmcclone is taciturn as usual. @gossama game chats 2 Shane Hinton and is concerned about the absence of @Miss_Stressa. @jr_carpenter also chats to @gossama about her suspicions that @Miss_Stressa may [...]

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 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 [...]

For those interested in audio in Flash–and audio generally–here are some interesting links concerning the work of Andre Michelle from Cologne; he seems to be the Flash audio guru. http://lab.andre-michelle.com is his ‘lab’. This has links to his code experiments, often in the form of audio toys. Michelle is also, I think, the lead developer [...]

When I look/listen/interact with programmed works, I look for interesting ‘code ideas’. I want to write about one I’ve just had. But first, here is my definition of  “interesting code idea”: the programming reveals the other side. By ‘the other side’, I mean the moment of art experience. And/or Ur intersects with the quotidian, the [...]

Create and control tiny sound-creatures in the shape of letters that react to gravity or each other and generate rhythms and soundscapes. http://joerg.piringer.net/abcdefg abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is a sound toy, a performance tool and an art work in its own right. You can play with the letter-creatures and watch and listen how they interact with each other [...]