It’s literature, Jim… but not as we know it (I’ve got a feeling Alan Bigelow may have used this line already.) From Vooks to ebooks, from the iPad to the Google settlement, and from print-on-demand to new styles of writing, this article attempts to analyse the effects of the digital revolution on the publishing industry, [...]

The third instalment of the Summer 2010 online edition of the literary journal Rain Taxi is now online at http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2010summer/, and it includes an interview which I conducted earlier this year with the new media writer, poet, scholar and philosopher Joel Weishaus. The starting-point for the interview is Joel’s most recent complete work, The Gateless [...]

Hi folks, I have two new works up. The first, Speaking Straight, is a collaboration with Roger Dean. A piece of computer interactive sound poetry, it was made as part of our Virtual Interactivity Project in which text is processed in Python.  It is up in the journal aslongasittakes at http://www.aslongasittakes.org/issue5.html. The second piece, Clay [...]

The fourth in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy tries to persuade one of his patients to lose weight – with hilarious results! To view it on my site, go to http://www.edwardpicot.com/drhairy/oldfashionedmedicine.mov ; or you can see it [...]

“Inside, it’s suddenly evening, suddenly quiet. Almost subterranean. Little glowing lights, opulent gloom. Big smooth pillars. Grey daylight gleaming weakly in the windows, seemingly a long way off, as if the outside world has gone faint and distant. The way it does when you’re lying in hospital, wondering if you’ll ever get back there. Like [...]

During the ELO-AI conference, David (jhave) Johnston shot a couple of wonderful little short films of people responding quickly to the question “What inspired you to get involved with electronic literature?” The results: 51 Keywords (33 seconds) and 51 Responses (18:25).

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 [...]

The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has been bothering me so much that I’ve now uploaded a web page about it at http://edwardpicot.com/bpoil . – Edward Picot http://edwardpicot.com – personal website http://hyperex.co.uk – The Hyperliterature Exchange

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The 3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling invites submissions for its digital text performance programme. Language in Digital Performance Inspace: nobody can hear you scream … Performances: 31 October, 2010, Inspace, University of Edinburgh, UK Conference: 01-03 November 2010, The Hub, Edinburgh, UK http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010 Submission Deadline: July 31, 2010 Notification of [...]

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 [...]

Jason asked people to post something about the upcoming ELO conference. Shamefully self-promoting myself I thought I could post something about the installation I will be presenting there. It’s called reRead. Information about it is available at http://www.littlepig.org.uk/reRead/reread.htm Simon

A documentary about the current copyright situation: http://goodcopybadcopy.net

Jill Laster has posted a story about the Electronic Literature Directory on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Electronic-Literature/23991/

The third in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In time for the General Election, Dr Hairy inexplicably takes it upon himself to share his philosophical and political views with the nation – with hilarious results! To view it on my site, go [...]

I put together a 6 minute video of some selected works of mine: http://vispo.com/misc/v1