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~~ ENDORSEMENTS ~~ "Jhave's glia.ca: poetic digital art far beyond cool, touchstone of videographic computational verbal beauty, our subabjects' soulplace now."
"David Jhave Johnston's work is startlingly beautiful and original; his skills as writer and programmer make him an artist to be reckoned with."
"Jhave is a new voice in digital literature, one that reminds us that we read with all of our senses as embodied beings. I still have to stop myself from putting my nose up to the screen to smell these hyper-sensory animations. Johnston's work is stunning in its simplicity, and he has quickly become one of my favorite new writers of digital literature."
"David Jhave Johnston's work is like cosmic satire - ontology with an edge - existing on the borders of conceptual text art, video, interactive net art, and poetry, never merely or clearly one and always demanding a new discourse should you want to voice a response. Can we talk of an articulate image, or a single word that "stares back" before you've even started the don't-blink-first game? Johnston is a hyper-active intelligence, a never sleeping eye, but his work is always cleanly executed yet weirdly visceral, a near-impossible combination in the antiseptic hallways of digital media."
"Jhave's work is at the forefront of the poets who approach computing media as their chosen media/um. He is both a poet and a programmer, a video artist and net artist. His interactive video work is the best of its kind that I'm aware of. His work should be known far and wide."
"Palpitating poems, poems alive with silky "If writing in the Guide Michelin, I'd compare Jhave's work to the kind of restaurant worth going quite out of your way for. Visual texture, thinking text, reading on the sunny side of creepy."
"I have such a strong appreciation for David Jhave Johnston's work because of the compelling way he joins objects with text: the vigorous spectacle Jhave immediately, viscerally creates with these two forces of expression is utterly powerful."
"Jhave's accessible texts give way to deep paradoxes. Lurking within this body are sublime questions of the human and the machine, of life and death."
"Copious quantity of quirky videos of lucid ludic elit full of pith & wit. "YouTube may be our Pringles; if so, Jhave's work, engaging language and the moving image, is baked brie."
"It's extremely exciting to poke about in Jhave's multiple screens, tumble along with his improvisatory processes, and open an ear to his foot-tapping soundscapes. His surreal images, eroticised bodies and off-beat texts propel us into an alien world while at the same time defamiliarising the everyday. I'd recommend Jhave's work to anyone who wants to engage with new media writing at its multi-sensory, multi-directional and stochastic best, and anyone who wants to revitalise the way they experience the poetic. Jhave really does reboot the universe now."
"Jhave's work reflects a deep engagement not only with language, and with image, but also with the expressive potential of objecthood itself. Both the visible texture of language and the texture of the optical object integrate inseparably in the creation of worlds (each poem or work is indeed such) that are lyrical and interrogatory. The approach equals the effect: at its heart it is not merely aesthetic -- providing sensory satisfaction -- but as much so philosophical -- bringing us to our inner paradoxes as well as the need to reflect on the tensions that they embody as visions of something beautiful and terrifying."
"Jhave's computationally-enhanced poetry works are a beacon shining to us afloat on the jettsam of badly designed texts and badly written designs, beckoning us ashore with the promise of code finely tuned to the noble cause of articulating beauty, acknowledging loss and celebrating the transcendent morbidity of a dead cat washing in alongside us."
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