Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

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, […]

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 […]

Bring me your tired, your poor, your broken VCR’s.
A laying on of hands, healing twisted cables, the clocks
that won’t stop flashing …
Nancy Paterson, VCR Story, TCR 250, 2007.
At home I used to have a very intelligent VCR with near-perfect voice recognition and knowledge or me. I could ask it to record programs by name […]

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, […]

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 […]

Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capliano Review is a work of electronic literature by Montreal-based fiction writer and pioneering author of electronic literature J. R. Carpenter, curated by Vancouver-based artist and writer Kate Armstrong, commissioned by The Capliano Review, a literary journal based in North Vancouver with a long history of publishing […]