In her essay Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector, Laura U. Marks uses examples from Islamic art to “show that an immanent Infinite is imaginable in contemporary society,” and suggests a number of ways in which “contemporary works of computer-based art may […]
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21
the giant On/Off of mortality
Category: EXCERPTS, LINES, Laura U. Marks, VIDEOS | Leave a Comment
Jan
28
What the heck is RSS?
Category: Babble Brook, EXCERPTS, J. R. Carpenter, Kate Armstrong, PARTICULATE, VIDEOS | 1 Comment
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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23
YouTube Poetry
Category: Andrew Klobucar, EXCERPTS, J. R. Carpenter, MARKUP, VIDEOS | 5 Comments
In November 2006, Andrew Klobucar notes, barely a year after the popular debut of “YouTube,” the now ubiquitous electronic network for amateur video distribution, subscribers to a much older web service called the SUNY Buffalo Poetics List found the following message posted to their email. Under the subject heading “YouTube Poetry – the crisis in […]
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