Netartery online again!
As you can see, Netartery is back online. It was down for 2024 after the parent site, vispo.com was hacked. My dear wife Natalie Funk…
Recent Posts
High-Resolution HTML5 Canvases
You can make your canvases as high-res as the user's computer can stand. I've recently used canvases of size 12000x6750 to create bitmaps that, when…
Digital Poetry in Digital Literacy
Poetry has been associated with the teaching of literacy for a long time. Because poetry, in some ways, is the cherry on the top of…
Godel and Philosophy
It's inspiring when math/logic leaps from the empyrean to the inner life. We see such a leap in Godel's work: he actually showed that there…
Leibniz and Computing
If you are interested in the history of the philosophical/logical/poetical dimensions of computing, you will be interested in Leibniz, the greater contemporary of Newton who…
Me and AI
Have been thinking about my art and AI. I don't use AI, as you may know--if one takes as fundamental in AI that it learns.
Some correspondence with my pal Ted Warnell
Here is some correspondence between myself and the marvelous net artist Ted Warnell.
Oppen Do Down--first Web Audio API piece
In my previous post, I made notes about my reading of and preliminary understanding of Chris Wilson's article on precision event scheduling in the Web…
Event Scheduling in the Web Audio API
This is the first of a two-part essay on event scheduling in the Web Audio API and an interactive audio piece I wrote (and sang)…
Chris Joseph: Amazing Net Art from the Frontier
I've been following Chris Joseph's work as a net artist since the late 1990's when he was living in Montréal--he's a Brit/Canadian living now in…
globalCompositeOperation in Net Art
Ted, Jim and globalCompositeOperation Ted Warnell and I have been corresponding together about net art since 1996 or 97. We've both been creating net art…
Colour Music in Aleph Null 2.0
I'm working on Aleph Null 2.0. You can view what I have so far at vispo.com/alephTouch/an.html . If you're familiar with version 1.0, you can…
Image Masking with the HTML5 Canvas
Image masking with the HTML5 canvas is easier than I thought it might be. This shows you the main idea and two examples. If you'd…
New Work by Ted Warnell
Ted Warnell, as many of you know, is a Canadian net artist originally from Vancouver, long since living in Alberta, who has been producing net…
Swiss Screamscape
For Netarterian contemplation, a project of the International Institute for Screamscape Studies:
Stylus
For the holiday listening pleasure of Netarterians, four radio programs beautifully produced by a talented group of young producers at WBUR, including Conor Gillies. Lots…
Crazy Horse One-Eight
Commissioned for the 2014 Radio Dreamlands project, produced by the UK-based Radio Arts. For information on broadcast or other rights, contact GW: gregorywhitehead(at)mac.com.
Google Image Search API
Google image search parameters Here are some useful documents if, as a developer, you want to use the Google Image Search API. I used the…
Teleporter
I've been working on a new piece called Teleporter. The original version is here. The idea is it's a teleporter. You click the Teleport button…
Echolocations of the Self
Though humble in format, Christine Hume's recently published chapbook Hum offers readers a deeply polyphonous enquiry into hums and humming that begins inside her own voice, body…
Of Hums and Howls
The poet-philosopher Christine Hume is among the most radiophonic writers I know, though all her castaways have appeared on the page. She first struck my…
Inkubus
INKUBUS : You're a teenage girl, connected, clued-in, but what lurks in the deepest, darkest regions beyond the screen? A first-person coming-of-age story-game. Created by…
A Photoshop Funhouse
Fellow writer-gone-wrong Joe Milutus, who teaches at the University of Washington-Bothell, sends the following dispatch, featuring strong work from recent students: The complete selection of…
Here for the Night
As Netarterians know, I retain a special fondness for the humble medium of analog broadcast radio, no matter how often it may be dragged into…
#PRISOM
#PRISOM - created by Dreaming Methods and Mez Breeze - is a synthetic reality game and social commentary on concepts concerning privacy, surveillance, and the…
Breaking Bad as Sittrag
Whatever else it is, tragedy is a dramatic form, a type of drama for the stage or film or TV etc. Certain dramatic works of…
The Great White West: Breaking Bad as Western
Breaking Bad is a kind of contemporary western. In various ways. Of course there's the New Mexico landscape. Breaking Bad uses that landscape cinematographically to…
First Remainder Series by Joseph F. Keppler
Apologies for the long absence. In the interim, I got married to the lovely Natalie Funk. And bought a condo in Metrotown in Vancouver. And…
Haunted Air
For the listening pleasure of Netarterians, a project assembled by.....
#Carnivast
from #Carnivast by Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell #Carnivast is a new work of electronic literature by Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell which explores code…
Zone
Dreaming Methods presents a new work - Zone - by Andy Campbell and Jhave. http://labs.dreamingmethods.com/zone/ With both protagonists of the story dead, only 90 seconds…
In the End
On this, the day that the Mayan calendar runs out of time, I am pleased to enter into the subtle and timeless acoustiplasm of Silence…
The Mole Cabal
To the attention of Netarterians: the extraordinary work of Karinne Keithley Syers, an artist-philosopher in the very best of senses; that is, one who uses…
Two Self-Portraits
These were created on invitation to make a work related to self-portraiture for Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses, a group exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery.
Leave It or Double It
On this, the John Cage Centennial, I offer Netarterians Leave it or Double it, a bit of radiophonic fungus produced on invitation from Transmission Arts,…
Dreaming Methods Labs
Dreaming Methods Labs http://labs.dreamingmethods.com/ features 6 leading-edge digital fiction works developed using a spectrum of technologies and in collaboration with some fantastic writers/artists including Kate Pullinger,…
'R'
Dreaming Methods Labs presents 'R' - an experimental digital fiction project created using WebGL - an open source 3D technology. 'R' follows the story of…
The Dead Tower
Dreaming Methods Labs presents a new digital fiction project - The Dead Tower - a collaboration between Andy Campbell and Mez Breeze (@Netwurker). Set in…
Joe Keenan's MOMENT
I put together a twenty minute video talking about a fantastic piece of digital poetry by Joe Keenan from the late nineties called MOMENT. Check…
Four Trees Down From Ponte Sisto
I first came across a sampling of Sharon Charde’s poetry completely by chance, while browsing through a local women’s magazine. I was instantly struck by…
Dreaming Methods
Dreaming Methods has launched a new website design and increased the size of the majority of its digital fiction projects to better fit modern screen…
Pancakes and Worms
The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Margaret, in Richard III In a brief statement first published on Edge in March, 2005, dramatist Richard…
Color music
Just a brief note to say something about color music. Cuz I've spoken of Aleph Null, a project of mine, as one of color music.
New Media Writing Forum
The New Media Writing Forum is a new hub for writers who are thinking of - or who are already – combining their work creatively…
Exotic functions
The strong lines in this scrawly curve are via the Lily function In my generative 2d art such as Aleph Null and dbCinema, a virtual…
Chain Reaction
By the rules of Grandmother’s Basket, whereby each new item must begin with the last letter of the previous item: John Pike pepper sprays Elizabeth Warren…
Chapter X: Evolution and the Universal Machine
Having recently been trying to be less a fossil concerning knowledge of evolution, I've watched all sorts of truly excellent documentaries available online. In several…
New Project: I ♥ E-Poetry
I ♥ E-Poetry I would like to announce the launching of my new blog: I ♥ E-Poetry. Here's a little background about me. I’ve created…
Why I have stopped creating e-Lit
It all started quite innocently. On January 2011, I traveled to Tanzania with the purpose of working with a group subsistence farmers, and engage them…
Why I am a Net Artist
vispo.com homepage Vispo.com is pretty much my life’s work, such as it is. Most of what I have created is available for free on the…
Chapter 3: Programmability
I said in chapter 1 that it's programmability, not interactivity (or anything else) that is the crucial matter to consider in computer art. I want…
Computer Art and the Theory of Computation: Chapter 2: Greenberg, Modernism, Computation and Computer Art
(Broken Link Here: original link is http://www.lorenmunk.com/portfolio.html . Try looking for an image and contacting the artist https://www.lorenmunk.com/portfolio ) In a short but influential piece…
Computer Art and the Theory of Computation: Chapter 1: The Blooming
Alan Turing inaugurated the theory of computation in 1936 with the most humble but powerful manifesto of all time What I'd like to do in…
Aleph Null Color Music
Aleph Null makes color music. Colors are tones. Musical notes are tones. Music is tones moving in time. Aleph Null makes changing color tones move…
Aleph Null
I've just completed my first JavaScript work using the new HTML 5 canvas tag. It's called Aleph Null. It's a generative, interactive work of visual…
Banned Production: cassettes, crypts and beavers
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone I have a deep affection for a format that diminished to the brink of extinction during the early years…
New Media Writing Prize 2011
The prize encourages writers working with new media to showcase their skills, provoke discussion and raise awareness of new media writing, the future of the…
Some HTML 5 Works
I've been seriously trying to learn JavaScript, CSS, the DOM (document object model) and jQuery recently, hopefully toward the production of some HTML 5 art…
RECURSION AND HUMAN THOUGHT: WHY THE PIRAHÃ DON'T HAVE NUMBERS
I thought this was a very entertaining read, as it literally seems to be a case of the Natives converting the missionary. But I also…
Vancouver Riot
A dbCinema maundering on the Vancouver riot: http://vispo.com/dbcinema/vanriot
Unashamed Oink Squirts
Dipping too deeply into the viscous gunk of L’Affaire DSK might threaten to clog the Netartery and provoke cardiac arrest, yet having performed a bit…
Dreaming Methods - Open Source Projects
Dreaming Methods has three new projects available to experience – each one created without the use of Flash or any other browser plugin. Visiting dreamingmethods.com…
Mainly The Mysteries
A few days ago, the publisher of the excellent print journal PAJ invited me to contribute to PAJ 100. The question: what do you still…
The Club
The Club is a moving-image digital collaging of 57 images of selected North American politicians, business men, and psychopaths from the eighties till the present.
Underbelly & Sister Stone Carver
(Screenshot of Underbelly. Link is broken) So much history is buried beneath our feet, and histories buried in other ways, by forgetfulness or disregard. If…
Unicode by Jörg Piringer
Jörg Piringer is a sound poet and poet-programmer currently living in Vienna/Austria. He really knows what he's doing with the programming, having a master's degree…
City Bird by Millie Niss
Millie Niss passed away in 2009. She was a New York writer/poet, programmer, and mathematician who took her work as a new media artist very…
Andrew Topel
from CONCRETE by Andrew Topel I subscribe to the Poetics list from SUNY, which is one of the oldest/biggest English language poetry-related listservs. Mostly the…
In the soup with the digital book
Nicolas Negroponte of MIT famously defined the phenomenon of digital convergence as "digital soup" and I'm poised - or at least tottering - on the…
Radiauteur: new webzine for radio art
Radiauteur - a new web magazine dedicated to radio art is now live online. Intro: Dedicated to radio art, the transmission of conceptual sounds and…
Maria Engberg reviews Funkhouser and Drucker
Maria Engberg wrote an interesting review of two books relevant to digital poetry: Chris Funkhouser's Prehistoric Digital Poetry--An Archeology of Forms (1959-1995) and Johanna Drucker's…
Mom's music
When my mom was dying, there was a short time when she no longer could talk but could hear. This was only a few days…
Slidvid 3.0
I've been working on version 3 of a JavaScript slideshow program I call Slidvid. I initially developed it to show screenshots of dbCinema in action.
The Curse of the "Code Blue" Motto
The motto of the Canadian national junior hockey team in 2011 was "Code Blue". Who knew that their motto would prove ironic? After the final…
New online journal: Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics
I received the below notice concerning a new online journal on experimental poetics and aesthetics, which I thought I'd post on netartery. We would like…
Doc At The Radar Station
In 1980, as I took my own first forays into the wilds of electromagnetic schizophonia, bouncing twisted walkie talkie tracks between two battered Superscopes, Captain…
Nick Montfort & Stephanie Strickland / Sea and Spar Between
Stephanie Strickland and Nick Montfort have collaborated on a work of digital poetry called Sea and Spar Between. The generative/interactive piece uses Emily Dickinson’s poems…
iPhone apps for Native languages in western Canada
Quoted and condensed from an article by Judith Lavoie in the Victoria Times Colonist, Dec 16, 2010. New apps for the iPod Touch, iPad and…
Wikileaks, Napster, and the Ayatollah Flanagan
In an Assange interview published by the Guardian on Friday 3 December 2010, Assange says: "Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on…
P.o.E.M.M. = Poems for Excitable Mobile Media
Hello Netartery! Jason Edward Lewis here. I've been working on digital texts and electronic poetry for a couple of decades, and I teach in the…
Radio Poetics, Interference and Muck
With the proliferation of audio webstreams and all sorts of digital smart boxes calling themselves radios, we need to ask, well, if these streams are…
New online issue of CIAC's magazine
The CIAC is the Centre for International Contemporary Art in Montréal. They publish on the net a long-running magazine, now edited by Paule Makrous, that…
Sound Resolution
Now what I'm going to tell you you already know back in some primitive part of your brain. Digital sound doesn't sound as good as…
Digital Fiction iPad Project: the Good and Bad Stuff
I thought it might be interesting to reflect on how we're finding the iPad as a development platform regarding our latest digital fiction project 'Changed',…
NHL Brain Trinket
What I'm going to tell you—I warn you—is of no consequence whatever. And it won't even be of interest to you unless you're an NHL…
Shoes red as wounds
Performing at Inspace and my Underbelly Cabinet of Curios For my performance of Underbelly in Edinburgh, UK, on Halloween at Inspace no one can hear…
Issue on digital poetry from Journal of Electronic Publishing
Aaron McCollough is guest-editing an issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing on digital poetry. Below is the email he sent to the Poetics list…
News from the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria
Since 2003, Catalan artist Antoni Abad and I have been working on a series of projects dealing with overlooked communities around the world expressing and…
Canadian Psycho
During the third week of October, 2010, the Canadian media covered the case of Russell Williams like no other news story. Williams, prior to his…
Gregory Chatonsky's Generative Narratives
Gregory Chatonsky is a French/Canadian artist who has created a significant body of net art. Here are a couple of pieces of his I found…
New Media Writing Prize Shortlist
The shortlist for the Poole New Media Writing Prize includes Christine Wilks (who is on netartery), Katharine Norman (whom I invited to be on netartery),…
Typing the Dancing Signifier: Jim Andrews' (Vis)Poetics
Greetings Netartery, When Jim invited me to join the group back in May, I had just successfully defended my dissertation. I decided that I didn't…
Text Generators
Edde Addad put together an interesting post concerning poetical text generators on netpoetic.com. The post describes and links to quite a few online resources including…
Amy Winehouse links
I've been listening to Amy Winehouse's blue-eyed soul music (though hers are brown) recently, watching interviews and reading articles about her. I thought I'd post…
Nightingale's Playground
It's raining in 1989. Teenage schoolboy Carl lives with his grandmother on an anonymous housing estate and spends his time hanging out with Alex, an…
Instant Poetry Patents
About a year ago, John Cayley made a post on NetPoetic entitled "An Edge of Chaos". In it he delimits a constraint-based networked-writing process: "Write…
Sign After the X
David Clarke has created a new work of net art called Sign After the X in collaboration with Marina Roy and Graham Meisner. Sign After…
Sufferrosa an "interactive movie"
Sufferrosa is an "interactive movie" by Dawid Marcinkowski. Here's a video about it. It's quite extensive, as these things go. And it looks like some…
Auntie Georgie
It's only been over the last few years that, suddenly, just about all the folks in my family as old as my parents have all…
Got a Grant from the Canada Council
I recently got a senior grant from the Canada Council's 'Spoken Word and Storytelling' program to do a specific project described at http://vispo.com/wombamo/wm.pdf. Basically, the…
Impossible Journal
Celebrating 10 years of digital writing, Impossible Journal is Dreaming Methods' first magazine-style publication and features a series of stories-behind-the-stories from our ambitious digital fiction…
Dirty Digital by Regina Pinto
To see more, visit : http://arteonline.arq.br/dirty_digital Dear Regina, “Dirty Digital” Congratulations! You have been surprising us every day, with your inteligent ideas, and giving us,…
Nawlz.com, a computer graphic novel for the web
Various forms of art lend themselves to adaptation and subsequent mutation via their practice on the web. The graphic novel is obviously an excellent candidate.
The Marconi factory beams out one final SOS
The BBC reports that the daughter of Guglielmo Marconi, the Princess Elettra, has been shocked by the derelict condition of her father's former factory in…
Up for the challenge
The first challenge is: viivakoodi, barcode, código de parras, codice a barre... I've always enjoyed a challenge - or rather, I've always hated to turn…
My little cyber shrine
It's been ten years since my dad passed away in 2000. I've been meaning to put some pictures of him on the net, for myself…
On fluid poetry
Hi all "netarterists", this is my first post. It's great to be part of the team! I don't usually write about my own work, but…
Online Russian mag of sound poetry & audio art
To me, this is quite juicy: an online Russian magazine of sound poetry and audio art called ARTronic Poetry. Edited by Evgenij V. Kharitonov. This…
On Pulsate by Andre Michelle
I find Andre Michelle's (Flash) interactive audio piece called Pulsate quite interesting. I won't describe it (very much) because it's online and you can check…
On using tools made by comrades
Notes and memoirs on using digital poetry tools engineered by other digital poets. With regard to digital tools, there are makers and there are users.
Bios
Jim Andrews Jim Andrews has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. It is the centre of his activity as a writer/poet, programmer, visual/audio artist, and essayist…
2 short films from ELO Archive & Innovate
Spontaneous film-making is getting easier in this era of HD DSLRs, so while I was at the recent (wonderful) Electronic Literature Organization Archive & Innovate…
The Playground
There is one story that has been niggling me for as long as I can remember. A story involving the relationship between a boy of…
Script: a new publication
(2010 link broken in 2024) S C R I P T is a new online publication edited by David Goldsmith and Quimby Melton. There are…
Digital Fiction on the iPhone via Flash export?
One of the things that attracted me to upgrade from Flash CS4 to CS5 (as well as the improved drag and drop code snippets and…
The gusher provides the ink
But what's the message? A few years ago, I co-produced a documentary for BBC Radio 3 that set out to follow the watery migrations of…
BP Horizon oil spill volume
How much oil is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from the Horizon oil spill? Wikipedia tells us that although no really accurate testing has…
Reduced to the state of a child
I recall reading writing by the poet P.K. Page about her time in Brazil, as the wife of a Canadian ambassador. She didn't understand Portuguese.
How it feels
At this point (in learning Flash), it feels like each word I write requires a day of research. And, even then, the pace may not…
Typographic Animation Software
Obx labs at Concordia U in Montréal, which is directed by the poet-programmer Jason Lewis, has released some interesting typographic still and animation software. One…
Explorations in Audio
After 11 years of using the Director multimedia tool to create pieces such as dbCinema, Jig Sound, Arteroids, Nio, A Pen, On Lionel Kearns, War…
What is Netartery?
I've been participating in netpoetic.com , a group blog started by Jason Nelson. I've been posting regularly to that group blog concerned with 'electronic literature'…
About
Netartery is a group blog by a diverse collection of (mostly media) artists and thinkers, scholars, programmers, and whatnot. The idea is to keep one…