aesthetics, appropriation, web 2.0




typography, web 2.0

numen / for use




performance, sculpture

Pilot Handwriting



typography, web 2.0, writing


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digital poetics, literature, poetry, vispo

Sleep Is Death (Geisterfahrer)




collaborative, digital poetics, game, narrative

Emotion & Voice

Speculative meandering postulate: Evolutionary theorists use the laryngeal nearve to suggest that there is no intelligent designer because it follows a seemingly useless path from brain around the heart before returning up to reach the larnyx [ see wikipedia or dawkins dissecting a giraffe ].

Poetry might suggest that the laryngeal nerve is reaching downward for a brief proximal consultation with cardio-neurons (affect-check) before activating voice.



affect, neuroscience, poetry

Coalition of the Willing



activist, collaborative, ecology, motion graphics

Open Humanities Press : Liquid Books



academia, collaborative, community, cyberculture, web 2.0, writing

Phillip Toledano




affect, digital poetics, interactive, narrative, reading

Philip Zimbardo on “The Secret Powers of Time”



neuroscience, technology, time

Michèle Métail


“In the author’s view, the projection of words into space is “the ultimate stage of writing”, the affirmation of presence within language… images [...] form an integral part of a construction in the architectural sense of the word … The exploration of the limits of meaning, the creation of semantic halos, the frequently jagged syntax attempt to render the slight fuzziness of perception as it captures reality … likes to explore genre transgression.”



poet, polyartist, video

Toucher – To Touch



digital poetics, interactive, reading

Katherine Hayles

empyre Digest, Vol 67, Issue 12

“The evidence now seems unmistakable:  reading extensively on the web has strong neurological consequences. To sum up this research: web reading catalyzes greater pattern recognition, increased spatial facility, and greater flexibility in noticing and responding to different information flows. It also leads to a distracted kind of reading in which (compared to print)  information is not processed as fully, remembered as long, or integrated as much into one’s existing mental schemas (held in long term memory). …  evidence suggests that the low-level activities of Web reading (clicking links, navigating websites, etc.), small as they are, nevertheless increase the cognitive load and therefore decrease the effectiveness with which information can be processed.  ”



interactive, reading, web 2.0

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine




consciousness, web 2.0

The Literary Platform

…showcasing projects experimenting with literature and technology.



reading, technology, web 2.0, writing

Brautigan Bibliography and Archive

” A slow rain sizzles
on the river
like a pan
full of frying flowers,
and with each drop
of rain
the ocean
begins again. ”

R. Brautigan. 1957



earth, planet, poet

Between Page And Screen


… an augmented-reality chapbook.
Like a digital pop-up book,
you hold the words in your hands.

written by Amaranth Borsuk and programmed by Brad Bouse



augmented, digital poetics

Jonathon Keats: Jargon Watch

“Space Invaders n. pl. A nickname given to the transposons responsible for injecting reptilian and amphibian DNA into mammalian genomes 15 to 46 million years ago. We have good reason to dread the return of the virus-borne gene reprogrammers—their first appearance coincided with mass extinctions.”


conceptual work



art, language, performance, polyartist, posthuman

Patricia Greenfield: Technology & Informal Education

“By their very nature as a real-time medium,
action video games penalize the player who stops
to reflect. Indeed, no real-time medium—including
film, television, and radio—permits time to reflect
(28). The one communication technology that does
provide time to reflect is the written word…Whereas
reading is associated with reflection, television
is associated with impulsivity…
there is evidence that visual technology
inhibits imaginative response.”



academia, game, reading

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