John Cayley

Person
Residency: 
Providence , RI
United States
Rhode Island US
Nationality: 
Canada
CA
Born: 
1956
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John Cayley
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John Cayley practices digital language arts, and has been a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer. Links to his writing in networked and programmable media are at http://programmatology.shadoof.net. Recent and ongoing projects include imposition, riverIsland, what we will, and The Readers Project (http://thereadersproject.org). His last printed book of poems, adaptations and translations was Ink Bamboo (Agenda & Belew, 1996). Cayley was the winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry 2001 (http://eliterature.org). He has taught or been associated with a number of universities in the United Kingdom, including the Performance Writing degree at Dartington College of Arts and the Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, where he was an Honorary Research Associate. In the United States, he has taught or directed research at the University of California San Diego and Brown University, where he is now Professor of Literary Arts, with a brief to teach and develop writing in digital media. His most recent work explores ambient poetics in programmable media, writing in immersive artificial audiovisual environments, and aestheticized vectors of reading; with parallel theoretical interventions concerning the role of code, the temporal properties of textuality, and 'writing to be found' with/against the services of totalizing statistical models of language.

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort descending Publication Type Publisher Year
Literal Art Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2004
Literal Art (sidebar) Article in an online journal 2004
Literary Programming (In the Age of Digital Transliteration) Conference paper or presentation 1999
New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies Issue of a journal Visible Language 1996
Overboard: An Example of Ambient Time-Based Poetics in Digital Art Article in an online journal Dichtung Digital 2004
Performances Of Writing In The Age Of Digital Transliteration Conference paper or presentation 1998
Poetry and Stuff: A Review of '#!' Review Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2015
Potentialities of Literary Cybertext Article in a print journal Visible Language 1996
Pressing the ‘Reveal Code’ Key Article in an online journal EJournal 1996
Reading and Giving Voice and Language Article in a print journal 2013
ReRites - Raw Output / Responses (paperback) Anthology of creative work or online gallery, Book (collection) Anteism Books 2019
Revolution and Literal Poetics: Writing to be Found and the Natural Language Liberation Fron Conference paper or presentation 2011
Screen Writing: A Practice-based, EuroRelative Introduction to Digital Literature and Poetics Article or chapter in a book 2009
SURFACE TEXT: Text as Surface in Immersive 3D Environments Invited lecture 2009
Terms of Use Conference paper or presentation 2012
The Advent of Aurature and the End of (Electronic) Literature Article or chapter in a book Bloomsbury Academic 2018
The Artist, the Database, and the Project of the University Conference paper or presentation 2012
The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text) Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2002
The Gravity of the Leaf: Phenomenologies of Literary Inscription in Media-Constituted Diegetic Worlds Article or chapter in a book 2010
The Institution of the Book: Why Shelley Jackson Doesn't Write Hypertext Invited lecture 2011

Curator of:

Titlesort descending City Country Date
Interrupt II Studio Providence United States February 10, 2012 to February 12, 2012
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John Cayley
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