Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

In his introductory essay to TCR 2-50, Artifice And Intelligence: New Writing, New Technologies, guest-editor Andrew Klobucar outlines the major themes covered in the issue. An annotated version of the “In this issue…” section of his essay functions as a reading tour through Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams:
Klobucar: Kate Armstrong tells us more about the […]

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David Jhave Johnston’s Interstitial deals with the fundamentals of existence: life and death. It does not attempt to sentimentalize nor deconstruct these issues. Death is death; life is life. He defines Interstitial art as any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or […]

In her essay, Feeds ans Streams: RSS Poetics, Kate Armstrong asks: “How might an RSS feed produce new art and digital literature?” The highly fluid flexible flux-able customizable nature of RSS changes the way we read, write, access and understand text. So much so that our notion of what a reader/writer is has […]

When Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams curator Kate Armstrong first approached me about creating a new work of electronic literature based on the texts of TCR 2-50 the only criteria was that the work explore formal and functional properties of RSS. Was that something I was interested in? I hadn’t really thought about it […]

Streams are both literally and metaphorically the central image of this work. Streams of consciousness, and of data. Images of and references to rivers flow through the interface. Many of the texts I am inserting into the original twelve essays of TCR 2-50 refer to rivers and/or to writing. TCR 2-50 tackles […]

In this issue of The Capilano Review a selection of some of the foremost writers, thinkers and artists working today in the field of digital literature have contributed work that will be experimentally syndicated using RSS. The works are broken into discrete fragments and delivered in a never-ending iterative stream anyone who signs up. Thus […]

Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capilano Review is curated by TCR 2-50 contributer Kate Armstrong. Her essay - “Feeds and Streams: RSS Poetics” - explores the cultural significance of an entirely new genre of writing – the RSS feed.
KATE ARMSTRONG is an artist and writer with interest in networks, distribution, and […]