And we are back!
So kids….the site had been disabled to new posts….for a small while. For that I apologize. Some madness about access and php and other angry scripts. But we are back and updated and ready! Click here...
View ArticleThe Problem With Elit
Electronic literature, despite such promotional successes as we saw at the MLA exhibition, in our two elit anthologies, the New Media Writing Prize, ELMCIP, and the ongoing efforts by a number of...
View Articlekonsonant
Click here to view the embedded video. konsonant is my new app (for iOS and Mac) as well as a free mp3 release. check it out at my site Play with letters and sounds, build acoustic machines, control...
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Dr Hairy in: Mentoring
The thirteenth Dr Hairy instalment, concluding the first series of short videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy...
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MOMENT by Joe Keenan
I put together a twenty minute video talking about a fantastic piece of digital poetry by Joe Keenan from the late nineties called MOMENT. Check it out: http://vispo.com/keenan/4 . MOMENT, written in...
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The Video Game Trailer/ePoem
If you look at the history of the movie trailer, it’s pretty clear that the primary purpose of this creation was advertising. According to Paramount executive Lou Harris, as quoted in the Los Angeles...
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A Short Video About Aleph Null
Here is a short video I put together about Aleph Null, an interactive, generative, online work I wrote in HTML 5 and JavaScript using the new <canvas> tag. The video was first shown at the...
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Self-Portrait
I recently got a small commission to create a couple of self-portraits for a visual art show in Vancouver on self-portraiture. The curator saw an earlier dbCinema piece I did called The Club that...
View Articlenew story at webyarns.com
After a few months of picking my way through the unfamiliar territory of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, I am happy to share a new digital story with you. “In A World Without Electricity” is the story of a...
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Dr Hairy wins an award!
Dear all - In my “ordinary life” as a Practice Manager, I and Dr David Hindmarsh (the doctor I work for) have co-authored a book, rather boringly called “Professional Development for Appraisal and...
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Mixing it – a review of “12 Remixes” by Michael Szpakowski
“From August 2011 to July 2012, the video artist and musician Michael Szpakowski entered a remix competition every month, and compiled his remixes (some of them with accompanying videos) on his...
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Gilgamesh part 1
A puppet-animation based (loosely) on the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, and made entirely with open-source software, except for a short animated section at the end which was made with Flash MX. In this...
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Gilgamesh, part 2
Continuing the puppet-animation based (loosely) on the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. The Goddess Aruru has sent a new hero called Enkidu to challenge Gilgamesh. Rather than confront him directly,...
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Gilgamesh, part 3
Continuing the puppet-animation based (loosely) on the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh has sent Samhat the Harlot to “tame” his rival Enkidu, but when he hears of Enkidu’s sexual prowess, he...
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Gilgamesh, part 4
Continuing the puppet-animation based (loosely) on the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. The Goddess Aruru has sent Enkidu to challenge Gilgamesh. But when Gilgamesh and Enkidu finally meet, they become...
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Gilgamesh, part 5
Continuing the puppet-animation based (loosely) on the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Determined to teach Gilgamesh and Enkidu a lesson, the Goddess Aruru has come to earth in the form of a monster....
View ArticleCFP: Electronic Literature after Flash (MLA 2014, Chicago)
Attention artists, creators, theorists, teachers, curators, and archivists of electronic literature! I’m putting together an e-lit roundtable for the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago...
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Gilgamesh, part 6
Continuing the puppet-animation based (loosely) on the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh and Enkidu encounter the monster in the sacred grove. Enkidu is killed, and Uta-Napishti, the Distant One,...
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Hmm. I need to recharge this netpoetic community.
While there are still some diehards posting on netpoetic, I’m eager to recharge this community, to rebuild it. More on this soon. I’m open to ideas, but in the meantime explore the kids at SpringGun...
View Articlethe next big thing
I was invited by the wonderful poet and teacher Kelly Moffett (http://www.kellymoffett.com/) to blog – somewhere, anywhere I wanted – and to tag the post as “the next big thing.” This is a mobile...
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