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Heart Pole
Description taken from N. Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature: "David Knoebel's exquisitely choreographed 'Heart Pole,' from his collection 'Click Poetry,' features a circular globe of words, with two rings spinning at 90 degrees from one another, 'moment to moment' and 'mind absorbing.' A longer narrative sequence, imaged as a plane undulating in space, can be manipulated by clicking and dragging. The narrative, focalized through the memories of a third-person male persona, recalls the moment between waking and sleeping when the narrator's mother is singing him to sleep with a song composed of his day's activities. But like the slippery plane that shifts in and out of legibility as it twists and turns, this moment of intimacy is irrevocably lost to time, forming the 'heart pole' that registers both its evocation and the on-goingness that condemns even the most deeply seated experiences to loss" (11).
Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 14:41
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New Word Order
New Word Order
Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 15:19
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Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework
Codework refers to the use of the contemporary idiolect of the computer and computing processes in digital media experimental writing, or [net.writing]. Some of the prominent practitioners include Alan Sondheim, who has given the practice and genre its name, Mez (Mary-Anne Breeze), Talan Memmott, Ted Warnell, Brian Lennon, and John Cayley. These writers also use different terms to refer to work: Mez composes in a neologistic "net.wurked" language that she has termed m[ez]ang.elle; Memmott uses the term "rich.lit"; Warnell names some of his JavaScript poems "codepoetry"; Lennon refers to "digital visual poetics"; and Cayley produces algorithmic, generative texts, or "programmable poetry." Writers and artists who have taken up the general practice of codework heed the mandate - "use the computer; it is not a television" - and strive to foreground and theorize the relations between interface and machine and so reflect on the networked environment that constitutes and is constituted by a digital text. The precise techniques vary, but the general result is a text-object or a text-event that emphasizes its own programming, mechanism, and materiality.
Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 23:09
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The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)
An essay considering the nature of "codework" and arguing against the collapse of "code" and "text" into one category. Cayley considers the different modes of reading involved in reading works that may be read both as computational artifacts and as works of literature.
Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 23:14
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John M. Vincler
John M. Vincler
Patricia Tomaszek - 06.05.2011 - 14:49
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i made this, you play this. we are enemies
“i made this. you play this. we are enemies.” is an art game, interactive digital poem which uses game levels built on screen shots from influential community based websites/portals. The game interface drives the poetic texts, the colliding and intersecting images, sounds, words, movements, a forever changing, reader built poetic wonderland. And using messy hand drawn elements, strange texts, sounds and multimedia layering, the artwork lets users play in the worlds hovering over and beneath what we browse, to exist outside/over their controlling constraints. Your arrow keys and space bar will guide you, with the occasional mouse click begging for attention. Each day the internet is humming with a million small interventions. From the humoresque mocking of community content sites like Fark, to the net gate keepers Yahoo and Google, partisan political portals like Huffington Post or the open source/file sharing ‘priates’ of Mininova, the web is an easy tool/weapon for meddling/influencing and sharing/forcing/alluring your opinion on whomever clicks.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.05.2011 - 19:07
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The Rut
An author tries in vain to give his latest book a title and some credits. A cynical parody on self-publishing.
Andy Campbell - 13.05.2011 - 17:20
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The Incomplete
The Incomplete takes the form of an interactive 'virtual laptop' running Windows XP. The restoration of a folder from the Recycle Bin leads to a series of half-corrupted images, surreal floating files and icons, and a number of openly editable text documents that are free to be changed, modified or completely deleted by anyone visiting the project.
Andy Campbell - 13.05.2011 - 17:27
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Inside: A Journal of Dreams
An elderly man keeps a surreal record of his dreams as he is slowly poisoned by his gas fire leaking carbon monoxide.
Andy Campbell - 19.05.2011 - 21:32
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The Diary of Anne Sykes
A diary of chaotic thoughts, ramblings and doodles from an imaginary author trapped in a cyclic relationship, featuring bizarre, mouse-responsive and interactive/animated texts.
Andy Campbell - 19.05.2011 - 21:36
