On Establishment of Environment in Limited Fork Theory Systems
Building on her notion of “Limited Fork Theory,” the author considers the implications of recent and forthcoming user-friendly developments in new media delivery systems. In the author’s view, nothing short of poetry’s utter redefinition will …
Read MoreWhy I am a Net Artist
In “Why I am a Net Artist,” long-time “media poetry” practitioner Jim Andrews reflects on the consequences of computation on language, the fundamental virtues of networked digital computing as a poetic medium, and computing’s facilitation of …
Read MoreFrom Hemingway to Twitterature: The Short and Shorter of it
With every status update and tweet, the millions of individuals on social-networking sites are more than staying connected—they are reading, writing, editing, distilling, and interpreting the written word more than any generation in history. In doin…
Read MoreThe Upright Script: Words in Space and on the Page
This essay provides a critical analysis of the way pervasive data culture impacts the form of poetry and conceptions of authorship for those print and digital poets who let it enter their work. As depicted in popular media, the data cloud is a confusi…
Read MoreDigital Orpheus: The Hypertext Poem in Time
This article addresses the problem of how hypertext poems composed in the late 1990s have aged relative to their counterparts in traditional print. The author pays special attention to the rapid pace with which digital modes become outmoded and to the…
Read MoreMake it Now: QuickMuse and the Arrival of Fast-Track Composition
N. Katherine Hayles suggests that prolonged interaction with networked and programmable media may be tuning young people’s nervous systems toward hyper attention, a cognitive mode that manifests in preferences for high levels of stimulation and mult…
Read MoreLanguage Technology Enables a Poetics of Interactive Generation
Computer poetry generation has historically been pursued from a number of different traditions: Digital Poetry, Oulipo, recreational programming, and language research. This article makes several suggestions for distributing interactive poetry generat…
Read MoreNews That Stays News: Marshall McLuhan and Media Poetics
Beginning from the formative influence of Marshall McLuhan on the discourses of communication studies and media studies, this essay argues for a re-examination of the importance of poetics to these discourses. This re-examination would consist of two…
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