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1. Coding the Infome: Writing Abstract Reality

   Because of their specific history, we think of computer languages and code as symbolic abstractions of natural languages, and computers as universal machines manipulating these symbols. However, today every computer exists in relation to the Internet, whether it is connected or not. Every software is potentially a networked software, a building block of the networks we live within and through. Because of this, code is no longer Text, a symbolic representation of reality - it is reality. To write code is to create and manipulate this reality. Within it, artist-programmers are more land-artists than writers, software are more earthworks than narratives, this creates new and fascinating issues in terms of referentiallity and meaning for the coding artist to delve into.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 28.05.2011 - 00:14

2. Line of Inquiry: Many Authors Explore Creative Computing Through a Short Program

   The talk takes the audience through how a single one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program can serve as a Rosetta Stone, helping people understand the interconnected cultural and technical aspects of creative computing, practices of using the computer expressively and recreationally in innovative ways.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 22.07.2011 - 18:03

3. Code, Interpretation, Avant-garde

   Code, Interpretation, Avant-garde

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.08.2011 - 17:14

4. Collaborations in E-lit

   This essay, a discussion between two esteemed e-poets for whom collaboration is an integral part of their creative practice, appeared in the "The Collaborative Turn" special issue of American Book Review, guest-edited by Davis Schneiderman. In their discussion, Montfort and Strickland survey several common types of e-lit collaboration and provide links to representative examples. Strickland explicitly links the material aesthetics of code poetics to literary theorist Timothy Morton's call for critical thinking that engages the universe's enmeshed interconnectedness, which he dubs "the ecological thought."

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.12.2011 - 11:45

5. Pressing the ‘Reveal Code’ Key

   Pressing the ‘Reveal Code’ Key

   Patricia Tomaszek - 16.03.2012 - 23:52

6. Exchanges and Cross-Fertilizations Mapping the Field: Four Perspectives on Aleph Null

   The panel was a team-reading / deconstruction of Jim Andrews' Aleph Null. The author first presented Aleph Null, a digital artwork / digital art tool that enables users to adjust and compose a generated animation Andrews describes as "color music." Leonardo Flores presented the work in the context of Andrews' background and his prior work. Mark Marino presented a reading at the level of code, with particular attention to the paratexts in the comments of the code itself. Giovanna di Rosario read the surface effects of the piece itself.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.06.2012 - 10:40

7. Transient Self-Portrait

   Transient self–portrait is an artistic research project with the aim of creating an interactive piece.
   I take as the point of departure two pivotal sonnets in Spanish literature that are normally studied
   alongside each other, En tanto que de rosa y azucena by Garcilaso de La Vega, a 16th Century
   Spanish poet, using Italian Renaissance verse forms and Mientras por competir con tu cabello by
   Luís de Gongora, a 17th Century Spanish poet from the Baroque period. Gongora’s sonnet is a
   homage to Garcilaso’s and the styles and the cultural aspects that appear on the sonnets are very
   different reflecting the attitudes from the Renaissance and the Baroque.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.06.2012 - 19:33

8. Comments on Comments in Code

   Where in source code do we locate the "extra-functional significance" that Critical Code Studies calls us to critique? One starting point is in code comments. In most programming languages, comments are simple marks that set aside text for humans to read but computers to ignore. The act of "commenting" and "uncommenting" circulates this text into and out of the code per se, which is to say into and out of the purview of the compiler / interpreter. Like footnotes or endnotes, code comments are paratexts — continuous with and yet set apart from the source. Where they serve as actual *commentaries*, these paratexts enabling programmers to signal intentions, record histories, and render aesthetic judgements: comments enable the vital processes of software development culture.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 07.07.2012 - 22:36

9. Critical Code Studies

   Critical Code Studies

   Patricia Tomaszek - 10.07.2012 - 23:08

10. konkret digital: Interview with Johannes Auer about Concrete Poetry and Net Literature

    Interview with Johannes Auer to be published in Concrete Poetry: An International Perspective. Edited by Claus Clüver and Marina Corrêa. (forthcoming)

    Patricia Tomaszek - 19.07.2012 - 13:59

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