Smoke and Hot Air | Ali Momeni



“Smoke and hot air animates my response to the relentless threats against Iran by a myriad of more fortunate countries in recent years. Sentences that include “attack Iran” are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers.”


(photo by yhancik)



art, installation, interactive, networks, spoken word, writing


“… as a result of recent technologies, and digital literature’s explosive re-invention of itself on the web, some aesthetic patterns may be emerging on the contemporary scene that offer hope for a form still struggling for its public identity.”

digital lit. exhibit curated by Alan Bigelow



digital poetics, gallery, spoken word

Ed Rondthaler – “On English Spelling”




demo, grapheme, learning, linguistics, spoken word

George Carlin – Life is Worth Losing



advice, comedy, death, lists, spoken word

Sarah Washington: Hearing in Tongues


An eight-part Radio Art series by Sarah Washington exploring the roots of language, communication and consciousness. The spoken text used as the basis for these pieces is the biblical story of The Tower of Babel from Genesis 11:1-9.

The series attempts to break down our understanding of language and challenge our relationship to meaning. The languages referenced include an array of tongues from Ancient Hebrew to Mandarin. Each episode is 3 minutes in length including a short introduction.



language, scroll, spoken word



artist, poet, spoken word, spore, subversion, video, web 2.0

UBU Web

“Essentially a gift economy, poetry is the perfect space to practice utopian politics….”

samples from the massive archive:
Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Balkan Baroque 1999
John Cage in Conversation with Richard Kostelanetz [John Cage:"We do very good work when we don't know what we are doing."]



avant garde, concrete, dada, oulipo, spoken word, ubu

Rives: “If I controlled the internet, you could auction yr broken heart on ebay…”



internet, oral, spoken word