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Code.surface || Code.depth
This essay begins by identifying a central idea in the critical discourse on code art and code poetry: code is a deep structure that instantiates a surface. The AP Project’s Jonathan Kemp and Martin Howse, for example, explain that their work makes “manifest underlying systematics,” that can make the digital “physical, audible and visible through geological computing.” In what sense, if at all, can we trace a computing operation down to a foundation, bottom, or core? Why do we maintain this cultural imaginary of code and how has it come into being? Moreover, how have the metaphors of software engineering – particularly the notion of structured layers and multitier architectures – been put to artistic use? The thematizing of layers, surfaces, and spatial metaphors has become quite intricate in new media writing practices, as I will demonstrate in a reading of “Lascaux.Symbol.ic,” one of Ted Warnell’s Poems by Nari, and recent projects by John Cayley, including Overboard and Translation.
Rita Raley - 05.05.2011 - 16:06
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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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Inner Workings: Code and Representations of Interiority in New Media Poetics
'Inner Workings' addresses itself to the methods, properties and practices of writing systems, including human writing systems, whose very signifiers are programmed. What does programmed signification tell us about the inner human writing machine? John Cayley's essay participates in relevant metacritical and metapsychological discussions - reexamining Freud's Mystic Writing Pad in particular - and is specifically sited within the context of debates on code and codework in literal art. Rather than revealed interiority, code is the archive and guarantee of inner workings than reside beneath the complex surfaces of poetics in programmable media.
Patricia Tomaszek - 27.05.2011 - 23:29
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Process Window: Code Work, Code Aesthetics, Code Poetics
The Process Window contains general information about the state of the process, with a summary of its current threads and their states.
Patricia Tomaszek - 27.05.2011 - 23:44
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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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Codeworld
Codeworld
Davin Heckman - 06.09.2013 - 16:53
