In February 2007 The Capilano Review, a literary journal based in North Vancouver, B.C., published an issue dedicated to new writing and new technologies. TCR 2-50 “Artifice & Intelligence” was guest-edited by Andrew Klobucar and included essays by: Andrew Klobucar, Global Telelanguage Resources, Sandra Seekins, Kate Armstrong, David Jhave Johnston, Laura U. Marks, Sharla Sava, Kevin Magee, Jim Andrews, Gordon Winiemko, Nancy Paterson & Darren Wershler-Henry.
TRIBUTARIES & TEXT-FED STREAMS: A FEED-READING OF THE CAPILANO REVIEW is a personal, playful and experimental rereading of and response to these essays by Montreal-based fiction writer and web artist J. R. Carpenter. Here is a re-reading TCR 2-50 comprised of one sentence by each author listed in the order their essays appear in TCR 2-50:
Quandaries concerning language and meaning seem to re-surface each time new print / reproduction technologies emerge.
Andrew Klobucar / Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies
Global Telelanguage Resources maintains a mandate to develop innovative modes of writing via new techniques & concepts of language use.
Global Telelanguage Resources / LexIcons: The Art of Definition
The language of DNA, the metaphors used to describe it, and how this information is “translated” is a concern for biotech artists.
Sandra Seekins / Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art
In generative digital literature, it is said that the work has the last word because the author and the reader are suddenly in the same position.
Kate Armstrong / Feeds and Streams: RSS Poetics
Interstitial art is any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or media.
David Jhave Johnston / INTERSTITIAL
Within an information-capitalist society, there is little room or time for the infinite.
Laura U. Marks / Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector
Online technologies have turned us all into potential cartographers.
Sharla Sava / Gridlock: Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project
Between the lines. Pieces as segments, without beginning or end, something from which to imagine a whole ….
Kevin Magee / to write as speech
It takes longer for the artistic imagination to acclimatize to new media than it does to create the technology behind it.
Jim Andrews / The < body > of Net Art
When considering technology, one need not pit the new against the old, or the rhetoric of liberation against determinism.
Gordon Winiemko / Some Thoughts About “New Media” in Quotes
Bring me your tired, your poor, your broken VCR’s.
Nancy Paterson / VCR Story
What interests me are the conditions and rules under which typewriting emerges from an always-nebulous assemblage of dictators, typists and machines.
Darren Wershler-Henry / Technologies of Dictation: Typewriting and the Toronto Research Group
We’ve always typed. bpNichol
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