May
22
Join us on Saturday, May 24th at 7:30 pm at the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, BC, to launch Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams a new work of electronic literature by Montreal-based fiction writer and web artist J.R. Carpenter.
Many books were harmed in the making of this electronic literature project. Over the past […]
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Mar
25
Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capliano Review is exploration of the formal and functional properties of RSS. Author J. R. Carpenter uses blogging, tagging and other Web 2.0 tools to mark-up and interlink the twelve essays of TCR 2-50 and to insert additional meta-layers of commentary in order to play with, […]
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Feb
18
This portion of Sandra Seekins’s essay on the The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art also bring us many promises and perils of translation, a thorny topic that recurs again and again in this issue of The Capilano Review. As Seekins tells us, Eduardo Kac’s controversial and ongoing work Genesis begins with the imperialist […]
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Jan
28
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 […]
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