Here is a re-reading TCR 2-50 comprised of one question posed by each author listed in the order their essays appear in TCR 2-50:
It is not unusual to find [Australian poet Komninos] Zervos’s term “crisis” frequently employed in critical comparisons of print to electronic modes of production. If the term is warranted, the dilemma derives, not only from practical difficulties classifying and copyrighting the wide variety of digital art and writing formats in continuous development, but also from more fundamental, traditional humanist questions concerning the relationship between language and knowledge – questions where language tends to resurrect its classical associations with the faculties of reason and human cognition.
Andrew Klobucar / Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies
How might creative writing (or even language use in general) take advantage of digital processing applications to create new and innovative forms of literary art, electronic or otherwise?
Global Telelanguage Resources / LexIcons: The Art of Definition
In terms of a biopolitics of biotech art, is it possible for there to be new fusions of organisms, machines, and systems concerned not with individual self-enhancement, but rather with the proliferation of difference and the creation of innovative systems that can foster cross-cultural and cross-species alliances with the goal of benefiting all matter?
Sandra Seekins / Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art
RSS feeds out in an ongoing, dynamic process of perpetual becoming. Once this world has begun, how can it end?
Kate Armstrong / Feeds and Streams: RSS Poetics
Interstitial cognition emerges in the presence of the unknown.
David Jhave Johnston / INTERSTITIAL
In calligraphy, is the line abstract? Is it not in the service of language and required to defer to language’s need to communicate?
Laura U. Marks / Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector
How much of our knowledge of nature relies on a process of international data accumulation.
Sharla Sava / Gridlock: Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project
invasion / penetration / occupation
What is the head not a host to?
Kevin Magee / to write as speech
What funk is there to be accomplished with an internet connection?
Jim Andrews / The < body > of Net Art
I’ve lost count of the number of bells and whistles I’ve triggered by the sounds I make, or my movements in a public space like a gallery or plaza. Nice effects, but what do they do, except fetishize technology and passively recapitulate the paradigm, or the received knowledge, of interactivity?
Gordon Winiemko / Some Thoughts About “New Media” in Quotes
Through some glitch of artificial unintelligence the malfunctioning vcr kept trying to eject nothing for days.
Nancy Paterson / VCR Story
When a writer sits “alone” at their machine, who is dictating?
Darren Wershler-Henry / Technologies of Dictation: Typewriting and the Toronto Research Group
We’ve always typed. bpNichol
other islands in this text-fed stream
