Category: thesis

  • Silicon Speech Shape

    By modelling the geometric resonance of speech, visually expressive letterforms emerge. The advantages of light emitting screens rather than reflective paper are obvious: all the features of the letterform can modulate as sounded. Diaphragm, trachea, larynx, tongue, palette, lips: tubes that resonate to create resonance. Language landscapes labyrinth lingual. New letterforms grown from formulas. Coral…

  • A few net resources for Elit

    EPC, Electronic Poetry Center. ELO, Electronic Literature Organization. ELMCIP, Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice. NT2, laboratoire de recherches sur les arts et littératures hypermédiatiques. OBX, typographic animation software lab initiated by Jason Lewis. Electronic Book Review, a peer-reviewed journal of critical writing on electronic literarature. NetArtery, group blog initiated…

  • What is Digital Poetry?

    a compression utility (it converts paragraphs into tiny enigmatic phrases) a Memory Resource Unit (inducing long-term potentiation from the cruft and spam of experience) GPU accelerated lyricism (lamentations & celebrations with some multimedia) a translation algorithm (converting the cultural heritage of bards into interactive & generative formats)

  • Living Language

    Richard Rorty identified philosophy as a series of turns. Like the head of a small bird, the head of philosophy pivots around to find new concerns each generation. In the early twentieth century, Wittgenstein’s linguistic turn precipitated a concentration on language as fundamental metaphor. In 1994, the pictorial turn (of W.T.J. Mitchell) proposed a visual…

  • TAVIT: Text Audio-Visual Interactivity

    Digital poetry is a multimedia hybrid-art-form, a subset of visual language fusing with digital technology, increasingly mediated by networks. Contemporary poems are animated interfaces; and they often utilize dynamic interactive typography superimposed over video, generative or 3D environments. A brief list of the disciplines involved: visual art, sound composition, literature, media studies, computer programming. Multimedia-hybrid…

  • 2009 : David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein

    As a meta-monument, a monolith, to the confluence of philosophy and poetry, and an extended meditation on the convergence of thought in multimedia, David Clark’s 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein is a rapturous virtuosic sprawling labyrinth that confounds, nourishes and provokes. It is (in my view) a consummate example of hybrid interactivity, future cinema, net-art and…

  • An Image-Essay on Image-Texts

  • The Future: Augmented Walkabouts

    “Playable text had earlier been achieved by interactive video installation – Tom White and David Small’s Stream of Consciousness (1998) and Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv’s Text Rain (1999) – but in the Cave environment, raining, or swarming, text becomes truly volumetric.” Rita Raley, Writing 3D. Special Issue of Iowa Review. Sept. 2006 CAVEs are…

  • 2012: Against Against

    Lev Manovich inverts the conventional way of looking at how photography forced a change on painting: “Thus, rather than thinking of modern art as a liberation (from representation and documentation), we can see it as a kind of psychosis – an intense, often torturous examination of the contents of its psyche, the memories of its…