“Digital Duende: Reading the Rasp in E-Poetry” by Amanda G. Michaels
An interesting article on e-poetry: “Digital Duende: Reading the Rasp in E-Poetry” by Amanda G. Michaels
http://www.shiftjournal.org/articles/2009/michaels.htm
(Posted by Jim Andrews, http://vispo.com )
Project AlphaAlpha by Regina Pinto and participants
AlphaAlpha, an animated netbook of letters “A”! It is composed of 365 instances of the letter “A” plus one more for the leap year. The letters are collected in groups of about ten. AlphaAlpha is a collaborative work and includes participants – artists & poets – from all over the world:
Joesér Alvaraz (Brazil), Bruce Andrews (USA), Jim Andrews (Canada), Paulo Aquarone (Brazil), Isabel Aranda – YTO (Chile), Isabelle Arvers (France), babel (Canada/UK), Vera Bighetti (Brazil), Bruno (Brazil), Patrick Burgaud (France), Josely Carvalho (Brazil), Steve Dalachinsky (USA), Martha Deed (USA), Rodolfo Franco (Brazil/Spain), Marcel Frazão (Brazil), Muriel Frega (Argentina), Sabrina Gledhill (Brazil), Lisa Hutton (USA), Satu Kaikkonen (Finland), Maja Kalogera (Croatia), Roberto Keppler (Brazil), Manik (Serbia), Brigitte Neufeldt (Germany), Millie Niss (USA), Clemente Padín (Uruguay), Margaret Penfold (UK), Yuko Otomo (USA), Edward Picot (UK), Regina Pinto (Brazil), Isabel Saij (France), José Roberto Sechi (Brazil), Reiner Strasser (Germany), Jurgen Trautwein (USA), Myron Turner (Canada), Susan Turner (Canada), Paulo Villela (Brazil), Miguel Jimenez – Zenon (Spain), Araceli Zuñiga (Mexico)
if:book HOTBOOK launched
http://futureofthebook.org.uk/index.php/hotbook/
The HOTBOOK is a ground breaking and free digital resource created by if:book.
The HOTBOOK aims to ignite a passion for literature (past, present and future) by introducing and exploring fragments of great works and presenting them in a way that will excite an audience that is more at ease with an electronic game or gadget than a book and with people who spend time social networking rather than reading.
To receive the free HOTBOOK resources and teachers’ guide, please visit http://futureofthebook.org.uk/index.php/hotbook/
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Some audio clips (very quiet, unfortunately) from the launch event at the Free Word Centre in London:
Viv Bird, Chief Executive of Booktrust:
Roland Marden, Head of Research, Booktrust (1):
Roland Marden, Head of Research, Booktrust (2):
Eleanor Clarke, Head of English, Queensbridge School, Birmingham:
Questions:
Daljit Nagra, poet:
‘Count As One’ by Liszkiewicz/Miller in The New River journal
I’ve finally had a chance to look through the latest issue (Fall 2009) of The New River journal ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/09Fall/ ), and as usual there are some fantastic works for those interested in new media art and writing. I particularly enjoyed A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz / Lucas C. Miller’s ‘Count As One’ ( http://www.cddc.vt.edu/journals/newriver/09Fall/liszkiewicz/count/ ), which is a really clever mix of visual poetry and DIY interactivity – allowing the reader/participant to help in the creation of the poem, but also offering the chance to print or publish the poem directly to Liszkiewicz’s Flickr account (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/afeeld/ to see what has been created so far). This is something I haven’t seen before, and a very interesting way to overcome the in-built obsolescence familiar to most interactive digital writing.
Media Poetry Competition – deadline 31 March 2010
After the real success of its first contest (254 applicants from the whole world, more than 150 realized works) for its eleventh edition (May 2011), the International Poetry Biennial is pleased to announce an International Media Poetry Contest in partnership with Radio Aligre, la revue Poptronics, Le Cube, La Maison de la poésie de Paris, XLR-project.
Works considered “media poetry” are those that place contemporary technologies at the service of poetry, be it within the framework of a performance or in that of a recorded and projectable work. Among the many forms accepted are included videopoetry, digital poetry, multimedia poetry, sound poetry, interactive poetry, and poetic installations in physical space or on the Internet. Works that illustrate a poem will not be considered (these are works that use sound or images to represent or complement a poem, for example). There are no restrictions regarding the form or content of the media poems submitted.
Work presented shall not exceed 15 minutes and can be presented on a personnal web site or on a collective site as YouTube or DailyMotion.
Application: Candidates willing to submit their work to the International of Media Poetry Contest shall express their intention via email before March 31st, 2010. To do so they shall write an email to: media-poesie@biennaledespoetes.fr
The address of the work submitted shall arrive at the Poetry Biennial’s office (11 rue Ferdinand Roussel 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine France) or to the above email address before December 31st, 2010.
A jury made up of ten international artists (see list below) will examine the works and will allot the Media Poetry Prize. The prize will be given to the winner during a special ceremony to be realized during the Poetry Biennial.
The prize winner will be invited to Paris, all expenses paid, for one week during the Poetry Biennial.
Participation in the contest automatically authorizes the Biennial to publicly exhibit submitted works. Unless otherwise specified, the copyright of the works remains with the artists.
Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 – 2009), by Edward Picot
Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 – 2009).
This article is co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange.
Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 – 2009). By Edward Picot.
Millie Niss, the writer and new media artist, died at 5 a.m. on 29th November 2009, of swine flu with complications. Her mother and longtime collaborator, Martha Deed, was with her at the time. She had been in hospital for four weeks, mostly in intensive care, after picking up the virus, which quickly became serious in her case, probably because she already had respiratory difficulties as a result of a rare condition known as Behcet’s Disease. She was 36 years old.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=372
“Millie’s work for me, has always reached beyond the surface of things. Managing to communicate an essence of her character and her varied intentions successfully. There is a unique sense of humour in much of her work, even when dealing with dark themes. A surreal edge, informed by her particular views on humanity and all of its, seemingly perpetual absurdities. Mixed with a playful, open spirit and a twist of simplicity. Her work was and is, more for those not bound by distracting trends – open for all. A rare wisdom with an authentic voice in this strange and complex world. Good bye Millie…” Marc Garrett.
This article by Edward Picot can also be read on The Hyperliterature Exchange – http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewmillieniss.php
Authoring software – how new media writers make their work
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/elit/elit_software.html -
by Judy Malloy
A resource for teachers and students of new media writing, who are exploring what authoring tools to use, for new media writers and poets, who are interested in how their colleagues approach their work, and for readers, who want to understand how new media writers and poets create their work, Authoring Software is an ongoing collection of statements about authoring tools and software.
It also looks at the relationship between interface and content in new media writing and at how the innovative use of authoring tools and the creation of new authoring tools have expanded digital writing/hypertext writing/net narrative practice in this vibrant contemporary creative writing field.
The project includes entries by and about such artists as Mark Amerika, Stefan Muller Arisona, M. D. Coverley,
Chris Joseph, Rob Kendall, Antoinette LaFarge, Deena Larson, Nick Montfort, Stuart Moulthrop, Kate Pullinger, Jim Rosenberg, Stephanie Strickland, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Sue Thomas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Joel Weishaus, and Nanette Wylde among many others.
This month features an interview with Sonya Rapoport, a visual artist and interactive art pioneer,
who creates interactive installations, as well as web works and artists books.
New digital story at webyarns.com – Archetypal Africa
Another typically lovely piece at Webyarns, with a deceptively simple, intuitive interface, wonderful visuals and sound, and a fascinating mix of fiction and fact that is arresting, and often very funny. Don’t miss the final section where you get to create your own archetype.
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“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, previously blogged about here) is now packaged as a single piece, and can be found at http://www.brainstrips.com (and also in Blackbird, VCU’s online journal).
Video of Devil’s Rope Journal at Interactive Futures 2007
Video moments uploaded by Christine Wilks from the live presentation of The Devils Rope Journal at the Interactive Futures 2007 (The New Screen) conference in Victoria, BC, Canada. The Devil’s Rope, created in Flash by Randy Adams (aka runran, Can), Chris Joseph (aka babel, Can/UK) and Christine Wilks (aka crissxross, UK), remixes images, animations, texts, audio, and snippets of from the collaborative R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX blog – http://www.remixworx.net. You can download a Flash standalone player of the full version of The Devil’s Rope from R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX here – http://www.runran.net/remix_runran/?page_id=393
Live online writing event with Mez Breeze, Ian Hatcher, Rui Torres, José Carlos Silvestre, Roderick Coover and John Cayley – 5-6 December 2009
Streamflow Conditions
Charting a poetics of language, code, and networks
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Timestamp
24 hours of networked writing
an online exhibition and live writing event launching Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 @ Subito Press
http://streamflowconditions.subitopress.org
~Beacons~
John Cayley (CA)
Roderick Coover (US)
Ian Hatcher (US)
Mez (AU)
José Carlos Silvestre (BR)
Stephanie Strickland & Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (US)
Rui Torres (PT)
code poetry ~~ code proper ~~ ghosts in the network ~~ river expeditions ~~ edges of chaos ~~ immersive horizons ~~ eco-poetics
TIMESTAMP: ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT DECEMBER 5th @ 4:35pm UTC-7 [MST]
Beginning at 4:35pm MST (sunset in Denver, Colorado) on December 5, 2009, the artists of the online exhibition, Streamflow Conditions, will perform online for 24 hours* through networked writing, live coding, streaming video, or other means.
Each artist will occupy a 4-hour shift, and the schedule is designed to facilitate audiences outside of the artists’ individual timezones. Writing or links to activity will be posted to the shared twitter account, “timestampstream” and intercepted at Subito Press. You are invited to follow along and respond.
The performances will end at 4:35pm MST on Sunday, December 6.
*see schedule of shifts at the end of announcement and use this link to translate into your timezone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
WHERE: http://www.streamflowconditions.subitopress.org
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STREAMFLOW CONDITIONS: EXHIBITION & EVENT DETAILS
Streamflow Conditions** is an online exhibition of electronic literature and networked writing curated by Judd Morrissey at the invitation of Subito Press at the University of Colorado. Beginning with a site-specific consideration of the Colorado landscape and its engineered waterways, the selection of works examines discrete markers in the contemporary data-scape of writing within networked culture. The artists and works chosen each represent an innovative use of language in conjunction with code, data, or networked spaces. The exhibition as a whole engages the overflowing boundaries between presence, process, and object at a time when currents of digital literary practice meet the culture and corpus of writing online (& the imminent google waves).
**gallery of works still under construction but please explore the site.
TIMESTAMP SHIFTS
[ use this to translate into your timezone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ]
1. Dec. 5, 4:35pm MST: Mez Breeze
2. Dec. 5, 8:35pm MST: Ian Hatcher
3. Dec. 6, 12:35am MST: Rui Torres
4. Dec. 6, 4:35am MST: José Carlos Silvestre
5. Dec. 6, 8:35am MST: Roderick Coover
6. Dec 6, 12:35pm MST: John Cayley
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