I began my previous post by quoting the conclusion of a recent article which stated that ‘Electronic poetry in Romanian is still to be invented’. It seems to me that the careful formulation of this sentence implies a very subtle yet significant distinction between ‘E-poetry in Romanian’ and ‘Romanian e-poetry’, which can be easily applied [...]

["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 [...]

Hi everyone!  Over at Gnoetry Daily we’ve been doing n-gram computer-assisted poetry generation for a while, and I decided to write up a little tutorial introducing n-grams and how they can be used for poetry generation.  It’s posted below; I’m trying to make it easy to understand, so let me know if there’s anything that’s [...]

Later this month I’ll be presenting a paper on “Making as Meaning: from Dirty Concrete to Critical Code” – I will post the entire text of the paper once I’ve presented it. In the meantime I thought I would give readers a sneak peek. In short, something I’ve been exploring is the way in which [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

imagine print without literature, just news and technical documentation, bills of lading, position papers, and so on. imagine the moving picture without art, just as surveillance and video-phone, etc. now imagine the net without net art. to many people, the latter is much easier to imagine than the former two distopias. we have had literature [...]

(1) Are there any prerequisites to being a digital writer? To be a digital writer, it’s probably best if you like to write, or at least not hate it.  Then, if you can pull as many muses into your corner as you can, that might help: history, music, dance, astronomy, and art…. Patience is a [...]

POET PIRATE NETBOT: Ruminations on the Undertaking of Excess Information by Kedrick James. An essay by the Vancouver poet, musician, scholar, and visual artist Kedrick James. With 13 of his intriguing visual collages (click these for bigger versions). POET PIRATE NETBOT is related to Kedrick’s book-length “Writing Post-Person: Poetics, Literacy and Sustainability in the Age [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]