The third issue of the academic journal Cibertextualidades has just been published by Fernando Pessoa University Editions, with essays on cyberliterature, digital culture and new media.
The organizers, Rui Torres and Sergio Bairon, have chosen to discuss the relation between Knowledge and Hypermedia, proposing a reflection about the conditions of knowledge production within digital media platforms. [...]

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, [...]

[I posted this manifesto on ephemerality on my own blog, but since electronic literature can form part of the solution I'm looking for, I'm cross-posting my thoughts here.]
We in the humanities are in love with the archive.
My friends already know that I am obsessed with archiving otherwise ephemeral social media. I’ve got multiple redundant systems [...]

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 [...]

it’s getting readable again before i turn back into the illegible at the following and last chapter. the first language for this fourth part of my small series is called
ORK
short for Objects R Kool. ORK is an object oriented language with a very verbose syntax. Unlike most of the esoteric programming languages you have [...]

A few of my English department colleagues and myself are preparing to propose a new Electronic Literature course, to replace a more vaguely named “Textual Media” class in the university course catalog. Here is an incredibly first draft version of the course description, building in part on language from the Electronic Literature Organization’s own description [...]

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 [...]

in the third part of my small series about programs that can be read i’d like to introduce two languages out of the mass of esoteric programming languages that focus on using commands that consist of single characters or ASCII-codes. this property is crucial for my own attempt in creating an esoteric programming language which [...]

Hi, I’m Mark Sample, and I’m not a digital poet, but I play one in the classroom. Unlike many of netpoetic’s contributors, I am less a writer and practitioner of digital literature than a student of it. And by student, I mean teacher. I’m thrilled to be a contributor to netpoetic.com in this capacity, as [...]

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 [...]

i continue my small series about esoteric programming languages with LOLCODE:
LOLCODE is inspired by the infamous lolcat internet meme. Lolcats are images distributed via the net with cats and their written “thoughts” on it. The language they speak is called lolspeak (lol is the net-acronym for “loughing out loud”) an english dialect. An example of [...]

I’d like to start a small series about “reading programs” here. This is somehow a follow-up of the discussion at e-poetry after José Carlos Silvestre’s talk. The point being made was that source code is meant to be read by humans. I first had to agree but then after thinking a while about it came [...]

This past summer I had the luxury of indulging in every passing intellectual whim (learning Processing, playing with old Commodore 64s, learning about typography, reading every digital poem I came across, etc.) at the same time as I tried to assimilate these nearly absurdly diverse interests into a coherent book project. I thought I would [...]

Part 1 is here.
The printed institution of intellectual property holds that works cannot be reproduced “without prior written permission” (as the legalese runs). The printed work at hand is always documentary evidence of the printer’s permission for that work, whereas any additional permission – the permission of the subject to write and read in the [...]