It’s been a while since Matthew Kirschenbaum’s book (Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, MIT Press, 2008) appeared and different responses have been generated meantime. I’ve finished reading it recently with the kind of feeling one has when (s)he finds a confirmation of something that up to that point presented itself only, more or [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The present-day diversity of the works which claim or can be   naturally  allotted a place under the heading of “electronic”  literature has  caused the critical and theoretical debates  accompanying the  development of this new field to move on to  a new level of  approach consisting in attempts to delineate the  extent of the  emerging literary [...]

Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: a review of The Path, a “short horror game” by Tale of Tales (Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey), based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
“The two best-known versions of the tale are by Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers – but there are numerous others. [...]

David Jhave Johnston is a poet-programmer who has produced a large body of intermedial Flash-based net art for many years at glia.ca. His most recent project is titled Sound Seeker. He says in the “About” section that Sound Seeker is “an online real-time beat-synchronized poem animator. Sound drives the rhythm of the words: their speed and style [...]

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 [...]