Here’s an interesting piece of critical media concerned with code: http://changethecode.com
Commentary on
Jessica Loseby’s Code Scares Me
Kenneth Goldsmith’s Soliloquy
Jodi.org
Jim Andrews’s Seattle Drift

I’ve noticed recently that there seem to be very few journals/magazines in which  there are opportunities to publish new media work, a lot of the good ones have folded or changed direction, and many people seem to publish mainly on their own websites. Universities, however, generally prefer you to publish the work in journals (preferably [...]

In “ordinary life” I work as an administrator in the NHS, and in collaboration with my friends
Julian Le Saux and David Hindmarsh I have recently started to put together a series of 10-
minute puppet-videos chronicling the misadventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather
hirsute) General Practitioner called Dr Hairy.
The first of these is called “Phoning [...]

This obviously has nothing to do with electronic writing or digital poetics, but I do see it as a contribution to “software studies,” and want to spread the word about my little online protest.

Bank of America Online Banking: A Critical Evaluation provides a detailed, easy-to-read critical evaluation of Bank of America Online Banking. It argues [...]

Shortly before Christmas, we received some excellent news from the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) review panel. Our project “Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice” has been recommended for funding, pending final contract negotiations with the European Science Foundation to be completed in January 2010. Scott Rettberg, of [...]

I have recently returned from DAC09.  While I am still processing a lot of the information that was pumped into my head, I did want to furnish a link to one of the high points of the conference:  The Literary Arts Extravaganza.  Organized by Jessica Pressman and Mark Marino, the extravaganza consisted of a live [...]

Here’s a new one from webyarns.com:
“Archetypal Africa” takes a look at common objects in everyday life,
and their symbolic resonance within myth and culture. The piece plays
with fact and fiction as it leads the user toward an opportunity to
define their own archetypal moment….
You can read the story at http://www.ArchetypalAfrica.com
Also, Brainstrips (a three-part knowledge series) is now [...]

“Mr Thornton walked rapidly, without awaiting Dixon’s slow movements. Margaret stood by the tea-table, resolved. The lines in her father’s face were soft and waving, with a frequent undulating kind of trembling, the dreamy lids a considerable distance from the eyes. Mr Thornton’s straight brows fell low, principally about the lips, one moment stretching from [...]

Nick Montfort and I are working with a designer to develop a coffee-table photo book version of Implementation, the sticker novel we published in 2004-2005. Originally, most of the photos submitted were of a resolution only suitable for the Web. We are currently looking for readers to help re-implement Implementation and to send in higher [...]

Here are some out of context quotations from a talk I gave the other day about my art practice:
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One affirms something but denies it, because to affirm it too strongly would be heretical and to deny it completely would also be heretical.
– Bruce Ellis Benson
Negation and affirmation bear upon the same attributes, only envisaged [...]

On Tuesday here in Asheville, NC, I’m talking about my artwork and research. I will have a small installation present. It is a table on which people place objects. Inset into the table is a screen running this pseudo-random animation. The animation is of (mostly) noun phrases from late-era Emily Dickinson poems, set in a [...]

“Coffee stall by the front entrance. People drinking coffee in the shade of a tree. More or less everyone in suits. Business coffee-break. Giles, meet me at half-two, outside the church, for a power-espresso. Stockbrokers, financiers, commodity-dealers. I don’t do tangibles, I do invisibles, I’m into futures, that’s where the big money is. Right in [...]

hi friends,
A few of you I’m sure know about this already, but for those who don’t, Francisco J. Ricardo has put together a remarkable new book which will be published by Continuum in 2-3 weeks. Titled Literary Art in Digital Performance: Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism, the book–which is based on a [...]

Please see the message below, from Regina Celia Pinto, about the 2-DVD edition of David Daniel’s Humans which she has just completed.
For any who are unfamiliar with the names, David Daniels was an American shape-poet who died in May 2008, and Regina Celia Pinto is a poet and artist from Brazil [...]

Here is some netpoetics. I’ve found some at last. Writing digital media. Language-driven digital poesis. Digital poetics even? “Something already ?” (Tom Phillips, A Humument, p. 99)
“The purpose of this writing is to address”
“an edge of chaos.”
“Specifically, the point or points”
“in sequences of words that”
“delimit phrases”
“found to be unique in our”
“most accessible corpus.”
[Google, Sat Oct [...]